INTERNAL Deadline: April 28, 2021

CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

The CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards are made to individuals who have completed PhD dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Graduate programs may submit up to two nominations: one in Biological Sciences/Life Sciences and one in Humanities and Fine Arts. To be eligible, the nominee must have completed their doctoral degree requirements in the period of July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021, inclusive. UBC will forward one nominee in each category to the international competition (open to all institutions who are members of the Council of Graduate Schools in the US and Canada).

Two CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, each consisting of an award of $2,000 and a certificate of recognition, will be presented at the CGS Annual Meeting Awards Luncheon in December 2021, in New Orleans, LA. Reasonable travel expenses of award recipients will be covered.

Note to graduate programs: This award is very competitive – PhD dissertations from universities across North America are forwarded to this competition. UBC graduate programs are strongly encouraged to only forward nominations that are competitive with those from top PhDs throughout North America.

Graduate program nomination deadline: Friday, 11 June 2021 at 4:00 pm PST

For detailed eligibility requirements, application procedures, and nomination procedures, please see: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/cgsproquest-distinguished-dissertation-award

UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces The Oral Examination for the Degree of

Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Animal Biology)

Kathrin Lydia Schirmann

“Dairy Cow Behaviour and Estrous Expression: Effects of Disease and Management”

9:00 AM on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021

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EXAMINING COMMITTEE

Chair: Dr. E. Jan

Supervisory Committee:
Dr. R. Cerri – Supervisor
Dr. M. von Keyserlingk – Co-supervisor
Dr. D. Weary – Committee member
Dr. L. Lavkulich – Committee member

Defense Committee Composition
Dr. R. Cerri – Supervisor
Dr. M. von Keyserlingk – Co-supervisor
Dr. D. Weary – Committee member
Dr. C. Brauner – University Examiner
Dr. M. Isman – University Examiner

Congratulations Hadis for winning the Discipline Specific Project Awards of the REX program in UBC!

Hadis Mozaffari is a PhD student in the Human Nutrition program under the supervision of Dr. Annalijn Conklin. Hadis was accepted as a mentor in UBC’s 2020-2021 REX Program and spent the past 7 months mentoring two undergraduate students in systematic review methodology.

Hadis received 1 of the 5 REX Discipline Specific Project Awards under Land and Food systems and Forestry for her strong and successful mentorship of both REX students for the project titled, ‘Examining the impact of whole dietary approaches on type 2 diabetes’. Despite the pandemic, 137 REX groups consisting of almost 400 undergraduate students completed their REX projects online.

REX Awards 2020-2021

Dear all,

We hope this email finds you well, safe and healthy!

The LFS Graduate & Postdoctoral Office is offering mandatory annual Academic & Wellness Check in’s with all research-based students (these check-in’s are also available for all professional program students as well, although not mandatory).  These individual zoom meetings will cover several topics including academic progress, funding, and wellbeing.

As access to our office has been restricted due to COVID,  it’s important that you feel supported by us and that you are aware of resources and services available to you, even if most of you still aren’t on campus.

You can book your appointment through Canvas (instructions attached).  The available appointments for May are now posted. There will be additional appointments scheduled further.

We hope you will find these meetings valuable.  Please don’t ever hesitate to contact us if you need anything.  We are here to help you.

BEWELL booking instructions

Sincerely,

Sean, Shelley and Lia

The LFS Graduate & Postdoctoral Office