INTERNAL Deadline _ July 15, 2022

A $3,850 prize has been made available through an endowment established by UBC faculty member Dr. Rashid Sumaila upon being named the 2017 Volvo Environment Prize laureate for a Master’s or Ph.D. student whose peer-reviewed publications to date are expected to have the most significant impact on the field of environmental sustainability.

Eligibility criteria:

• Nominees must have been registered in a UBC-Vancouver Master’s or PhD program in the 2021W session
• Preference is given to students supervised by faculty members who are affiliated with the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability; or the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Students who are not supervised by faculty members affiliated with these units will be considered only if there is no nomination received from these units.

For application and nomination procedures, please see:
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/sumaila-volvo-graduate-prize-environmental-sustainability

Graduate program nomination deadline: Friday, 29 July 2022 at 4:00 pm PT

Should you have further questions, please contact natalie.thorson@ubc.ca.

Subject: FNH 313 Food Microbiology Seeking Additional TA’s

DESCRIPTION OF WORK

Each TA will be assigned 72 h to mark student discussion posts, assignments, and final exams, and provide students with effective feedback on their work that will help them improve on subsequent assignments. All assignments will be marked within Canvas, UBC’s online learning management system. TAs will be asked to create a short video introducing themselves to students. These videos will be posted on Canvas.

INSTRUCTOR ASSISTANCE

The course instructor will hold a group meeting at the beginning of the course to become acquainted with the TAs, review the course structure and assignments, demonstrate how to mark assignments in Canvas, and answer any questions that TA’s may have. TAs will also receive a TA manual (~3 pages), that outlines their responsibilities and provides a breakdown of how many TA hours they can expect to spend on each marking task and when those tasks will occur.

The instructor will provide TA’s with marking guides and encourages TA’s to ask questions when they are uncertain how to grade certain student answers.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

Education: Graduate students who have completed FNH 313 or an equivalent Food Microbiology course are preferred. Undergraduate students who have completed FNH 313 or an equivalent Food Microbiology course will be considered when not enough graduate students are available.

Experience: No prior TA or work experience is required.

Skills:

– Ability to correspond effectively with the Instructor and to ask questions when uncertain about marking responsibilities

– Ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail when marking and provide students with effective feedback that will enhance their learning

– Good organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills

Please contact the course instructor Patricia Hingston (patricia.hingston@ubc.ca) if you are interested in this opportunity!

 

Patricia Hingston, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teaching

Food Science | Food, Nutrition and Health Program | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Room 223 – MacMillan Building – 2357 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Office: (604) 827-1604 | Cell: (604) 363-2110

EDCP 508D (951): Cross-Cultural Research in an Era of Climate Change and Global Inequities

July 25–Aug. 8, 2022

Time: M–F, 11:30 am–3:30 pm

EDCP 508D abstract

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This research methodology course explores opportunities and challenges of conducting research across different worldviews, knowledge systems, languages and geographies. The focus of this course is to guide students as visionaries and architects of change in the design of cross-cultural research in this era of climate change, global socioeconomic inequities and pandemics. Students will critically reflect on how their own cultural worldviews, lived experiences, sense of place and life narratives influence the shaping of their research projects as they work to articulate research method(ologie)s and research projects that promote a more just, compassionate and ecologically sustainable world.

Cheers

Alan

Alan F. Jay

Graduate Program Assistant
Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy
University of British Columbia
2227-2125 Mail Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
604-822-5367

LFS Softball is back!

LFS’s softball team (the Killer Bees?) is getting back together and will be taking on our cross-Main Mall rivals in the Faculty of Forestry on July 6th! And this time…we’ll have matching team T-shirts. To prepare, we’re having practices on Wednesdays at 1pm throughout June (meet in the McMillan courtyard).

Want to join the team? Great! Let Duncan from the LFS Learning Centre know: duncan.mchugh@ubc.ca

No skills or experience necessary, all welcome. If you have a glove, please bring it with you when you play, though we’ll have a couple on hand. Hope to see you on the diamond!

 

Thanks!

 

__________________________
Duncan McHugh (He, Him, His)
Digital & Instructional Media Producer | The Learning Centre | lc.landfood.ubc.ca
Sessional Lecturer | LFS 400 | lfs400.landfood.ubc.ca
UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory
Suite 264, 2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
t: 604.376.1139 | e: duncan.mchugh@ubc.ca | requests: is@landfood.ubc.ca

My name is Tyrone and I’m reaching out on behalf of the AMS-constituted UBC Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO) club that runs the Research EXperience (REX) program! REX pairs undergraduate students with post-doctoral and graduate students to design a research project.

We are currently looking for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who are interested in committing a minimum of 4 hours each month to act as a mentor. If this opportunity interests you and you would like to become a mentor, please fill out our initial registration form here (the final registration opens in August). This is a great opportunity for graduate students to gain mentorship, leadership, and management skills. Furthermore, the REX program assists mentors on the lookout for promising students to take into their research groups through direct evaluation for 6 months (October to March).

At the end of the REX program, the undergraduate students present their finished projects at the Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC), one of BC’s largest undergraduate research conferences. The 2021-2022 REX program saw the participation of over 150 mentors and 450 undergraduate applicants. This program provides enthusiastic undergraduates with a low-barrier and accessible avenue to engage with research early in their academic careers, a valuable opportunity that many may otherwise not be able to experience.

Further information:

REX Mentor Brochure

REX website

We kindly ask you to forward this email to the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on your team, and encourage them to take part in this great opportunity. We sincerely appreciate your help in supporting undergraduate research at the University of British Columbia.

If you have any questions, comments or other inquiries please do not hesitate to contact us at rex.uro.ubc@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Tyrone Borja

REX Committee Co-Chair

UBC Undergraduate Research Opportunities