Call for a GRA position to join our Indigenous land-based health and wellness research and education cluster.  Thank you in advance for your support.

Research Cluster-GRA Assistant-Job Posting-March 6-2023

Warmly,  Wilson

Wilson Mendes (he, him, his)
PhD Candidate, MPlan,  UBC Public Scholar
Indigenous Research Cluster Coordinator
Research and Education Advisor, xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden
Indigenous Research Partnerships | Faculty of Land & Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Point Grey Campus
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm | Unceded Musqueam Territory
2357 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC  Canada V6T 1Z4
wilson.mendes@ubc.ca | www.landfood.ubc.ca

Hello, Graduate Students,

Yes, it’s time to think about the Winter terms of 2023/24 …

The LFS TA Application will soon be open to accept applications to TA for Winter 2023/24  in all Winter terms.

• The TA App will be open from , March 31st, 2023 at 9:30am through
  Sun., April 30^th, 2023 at 4:30pm.

After it closes April 30th, application will be by instructor or administrator invitation only.

UPDATE your Additional Information, Confidential Information tabs and Resume to highlight your current accomplishments, etc.
Also, add any new non-LFS TA hours to your list. Your pay classification depends on how many graduate TA hours you have accumulated.
(LFS TA hours are already tracked for you in the TA App from 2020 Summer on.)

If you are off-campus you must use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access the website.
Check the UBC IT website for help at: https://it.ubc.ca/services/email-voice-internet/myvpn .

Questions? Email Virginia Frankian at lfs.ta@ubc.ca

Join us this Thursday, March 9 and learn about Climate change, sustainability and Innovation from Dr. Justin Bull as he speaks to the MFRE students.

Climate is Eating Everything

Date: Friday, March 9^rd ,^, 2023

Time: 3:00-4:30 pm

Location: MCML 154

Justin is a lecturer at the Sauder School of Business and Chair of the Sustainability and Ethics Group. He teaches extensively on sustainability, innovation, and strategy, with a focus on graduate and executive learners. He has worked with big companies – like IKEA, Lyft, and Rolling Stone – to implement climate innovations. Justin serves a an advisor and board member to several technology starts-ups and First Nations in Canada. He graduated with a BA in International Relations and a PhD in Wood Science from the University of British Columbia

For information about the upcoming MFRE Speakers, Please visit here

 

Regards,

Olivier

Olivier Ntwali, BSc Ag. Econ, MFRE

Academic Program Manager | Master of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food Systems| The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | 348A-2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada | Cell 604-771-8961 | olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca | http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca/

 

Next week’s IRES Seminar is in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre (Room 102, 2185 East Mall).  Note: No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.

March 9, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Derek Gladwin

Who are you online? – Writing an effective digital story

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: Michael Smith Labs Theatre (Room 102, 2185 East Mall)

Click here to register in advance to receive a Zoom link.

Zoom Rule: If we encounter technical difficulties during the first 5 to 10 mins of the seminar, Zoom will be terminated.

Talk summary:

What is your current digital story? Does your digital footprint contain a cohesive story? How might it be rewritten to reflect your professional goals as a graduate student and beyond? This professional development seminar explores these questions by affording participants the time and space to reflect on their current online “digital story” and analyze their presence and behaviour on the internet as a process of professionalization. The focus will be to discuss how graduate students can craft and curate an effective digital narrative that reflects the stories they would like to tell online. Participants will also learn how to develop tools and enhance their digital story through images, titles, taglines, websites, streaming, and social media. The ultimate aim is to gain practical knowledge and acquire tools to create a digital story to enhance one’s professional identity online.

Dr. Derek Gladwin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Bio:

Derek Gladwin is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education and a Wall Fellow (2022-23) at UBC. His interdisciplinary research and teaching aim to promote social understanding and relational action on environmental, health and well-being, and arts-based approaches through public forms of education and literacy. He is the author and editor of several books, including Ecological exile (2018) and Rewriting our stories (2021), while also serving as Senior Editor for Environmental & Sustainability Education in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education and as a member of the Clean Energy Research Centre at UBC. 

See you next Thursday in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre!

_______________________________________________________________________________

Bonnie Leung

RES Program Support (she/her/hers)

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)

University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)

Room 429 – 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4 | Canada

Email: bonnie.leung@ubc.ca

Tel: 604-822-9249

 

There is a location change for this week’s seminar.  Thursday’s IRES Seminar will be in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre (Rm 102 – 2185 East Mall).  Note: No food or drinks are allowed in the Theatre.

March 2, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Sara Barron

Future Urban Forests

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: Michael Smith Labs Theatre (Rm 102 – 2185 East Mall)

Click here to register in advance to receive a Zoom link.

Zoom Rule: If we encounter technical difficulties during the first 5 to 10 mins of the seminar, Zoom will be terminated.

Talk summary:

North American urban landscapes are facing critical pressures such as climate change, human health concerns, and loss of biodiversity and habitat. Urban forests are a critical component of these landscapes and can help meet these pressures in several ways. The emerging discipline of urban forestry can inform policy and practice to design and plan for future forests in human landscapes. The field currently lacks tested approaches to holistically integrate the complex multiple factors involved with future planning. This study explores a new framework for a scenario-based approach incorporating a design process to examine potential solutions to these complex problems. A Canadian case study was used to develop and evaluate this framework approach combining multiple methods.

Dr. Sara Barron, Program Director for Bachelor of Urban Forestry and Master in Urban Forestry Leadership

Bio:

Sara Barron is the Program Director for the Urban Forestry programs (Bachelor of Urban Forestry and Master in Urban Forestry Leadership) at the University of British Columbia. Prior to this role, she was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Sara’s research interests bridge landscape architecture and urban forestry. Her dissertation explored the design and assessment of future urban forest scenarios in compact communities. She has expertise in large-scale sustainable community planning and climate change research projects and holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree.

 

See you Thursday in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre!

_______________________________________________________________________________

Bonnie Leung

RES Program Support (she/her/hers)

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES)

University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL Building)

Room 429 – 2202 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | V6T 1Z4 | Canada

Email: bonnie.leung@ubc.ca

Tel: 604-822-9249