The University of Memphis has an opening for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Nutrition. I would greatly appreciate it if you could forward this to graduate students or postdocs in your program who might be interested in this position.

Details and instructions for applications are in the link at the end of this message or can be found on the WorkForUM site (workforum.memphis.edu) posting number FAECC757. We offer a low teaching load, and the School of Health Studies features a state-of-the-art molecular biology laboratory with an 8-color flow cytometer, an RT-qPCR system, a Seahorse extracellular flux analyzer, a clinical chemistry system, and equipment for fluorescence microscopy, western blotting, ELISA, cell culture, etc. Interested individuals are also welcome to contact the SCC (Brandt Pence, bdpence@memphis.edu) for more information.

Details and Applications: https://workforum.memphis.edu/postings/18391

Thank you.

Brandt D. Pence, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition, School of Health Studies

The University of Memphis 
304 Elma Roane Fieldhouse
Memphis, TN 38152 

901.678.3407 | memphis.edu

March 29: Agriculture and Climate Change with Harmony Bjarnason (MFRE’15, BC Agriculture and Food Climate Action Initiative – Kelowna)
6:45pm, ORCH 1001 

Harmony works with the BC Agriculture & Food Climate Action Initiative on the Regional Adaptation Strategies program – a regional approach to evaluating the agriculture sector’s risks and opportunities in relation to climate change. She develops and delivers projects to support adaptation and build sector resilience in farming communities in BC. She also operates a small hops farm in Kelowna.

 

Presentation: Enhancing Agriculture’s Ability to Adapt to Climate Change

How will climate change affect agricultural operations in the Province of BC (this presentation will focus on the Fraser Valley, Delta and the Okanagan) and what do we need to do today to ensure the sector remains resilient in the coming decades? Priorities and strategies for the agriculture sector’s adaptation to hotter and drier summer conditions, extreme precipitation events, increased pest and disease pressure and increased wildfire risk will be outlined with a discussion of planning and projects (completed or underway) to address these challenges, both at the regional and farm scale.

 

All are invited! 

Gabrielle Menard  MFRE
Academic Coordinator, Graduating Projects Manager
Land and Food Systems | Master of Food and Resource Economics
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Cell 604 764 0305
gabrielle.menard@ubc.ca
http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/

Call for Abstracts: 9^th International Agriculture Symposium “AGROSYM 2018” – Deadline: April 20^th, 2018
Jahorina, 4-7 October 2018, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Belgrade, Faculty of Agriculture (Serbia) and CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (CIHEAM-IAMB, Italy), in collaboration with 25 Research and Academia Institutions organize the 9^th International Agriculture Symposium “AGROSYM 2018”, that will be held in Jahorina mountain (near Sarajevo) aton 4-7 October 2018.

Agrosym 2018 will deal with seven thematic areas: (1) Plant Production (2) Plant Protection and Food Safety (3) Organic Agriculture (4) Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management (5) Animal Husbandry (6) Rural Development and Agro-Economy (7) Forestry and Agro-Forestry.

The 9^thedition of the Symposium will take place in the magnificent Termag Hotel, situated in Jahorina mountain, near Sarajevo.

In 2017, during the four-day of 8^th Agrosym edition (5-8 October 2017), we welcomed people from 85 countries to the event, and over 1300 papers were presented to more than 1200 participants.

You are kindly invited to participate and take advantage of the opportunity to present your unpublished scientific papers. The official Symposium language is English. The deadline for Registration and Abstract submission is 20 April 2018.

The Scientific Committee of AGROSYM 2018 will provide the Award of Excellent Paper for oral presentations and Award of Excellent Poster for poster presentations. Certificate and gift will be given away.

Please share this Call for Abstracts with your colleagues and friends who may be interested.

Symposium official website at: http://www.agrosym.rs.ba/index.php/en/

Contacts:
For further information please feel free to contact:

– Dr. Sinisa Berjan email: agrosym2018@gmail.com  University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture, or
– Dr. Noureddin Driouech: infoftn@iamb.it CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari-Italy.

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To graduate students conducting or interested in qualitative research:

Would you like to meet with other qualitative researchers from across UBC to discuss paradigms, methods, analysis and writing?

If so, join our qualitative research community of practice!

Meeting time and place: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month, starting at 2:00 pm meeting in room 184 in Irving Barber Library.

Next meeting (March 28th at 2:00 pm): Julia Santana Parrilla (School of Population and Public Health and the Centre for Applied Ethics) will lead a discussion about aligning our research paradigms, questions, and methods. Julia will base her presentation on “Keeping things plumb in qualitative research” by R. Cenail (1997) (see attached).

Thank you and if you have any questions, please email: Katie Koralesky at katie985@mail.ubc.ca!

Keeping Things Plumb in Qualitative Research

Hope in the Anthropocene is a collaboration between Green College and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (IRES).  

We are hosting a half-day capstone workshop, led by graduate-student rapporteurs, to bring together UBC and other local sustainability experts to assimilate, critique, synthesize and supplement the findings and insights of the lecture and discussion series. The workshop, which is free and open to the public (with pre-registration required) will open with an exploration of the meaning of “hope in the Anthropocene,” including consideration of what such hope might entail in practical terms; of its potential and limitations; and of whose hope is included or foregrounded in various conceptualizations. The remainder of the workshop will focus on specific sources of hope in the Anthropocene and on strategies for fostering and actioning hope, with discussion of the conditions under which hope is useful for engendering change.  

These discussions are designed to contribute to the development of an “agenda for hope” for the wider environment and sustainability community, to be produced as an outcome of the workshop. We hope you can join us! 

We thought the workshop might be of interest to your graduate students.  

The Series poster is attached for your easy reference, and additional information is on our website here: https://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/hope-anthropocene-workshop.  

If you have any questions about the workshop, do not hesitate to contact me directly.  

Kindest regards, 

Tania Astorino BA, JD

Academic Program Manager | Green College

The University of British Columbia

6201 Cecil Green Park Road | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z1 Canada

Phone 604 822 0676 | Fax 604 822 8742

gc.programs@ubc.ca | www.greencollege.ubc.ca | @GreenCollegeUBC