The Integrated Training Program in Infectious Diseases, Food Safety & Public Policy (ITraP) is now recruiting for its 2017 program. If you are a graduate student interested in interdisciplinary team science and One Health approaches to complex issues, consider applying to ITraP!Effective prevention of infectious disease outbreaks and compromised food safety requires a coordinated effort by a diverse team spanning disciplines and borders. In ITraP, interdisciplinary graduate students from across the University of Saskatchewan and international partner universities learn to collaboratively devise solutions to current One Health issues at the human-animal-environment interface.

ITraP Poster_2016

For more information about the program, including scholarship opportunities and application requirements, please see the attachments or visit us at http://www.usask.ca/itrap. Applications will be accepted until 15 September 2016.

Best,
Amanda
Amanda Kelly, MSc, Program Coordinator
NSERC-CREATE Integrated Training Program in
Infectious Disease, Food Safety and Public Policy (ITraP)
Western College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
4113-52 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK, S7N 5B4, Canada
Ph: 306-966-7192
www.usask.ca/ITraP

UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces

The Oral Examination for the Degree of MSc in SOIL of

Daniel SEETON

Ammonia Emissions and Dry Deposition from Broiler Barns: Potential Contamination of Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer

Thursday, April 21, 2016 at  13:00 pm Room 350 – MacMillan Building

Supervisory Committee
Dr. M. Krzic
Dr. S. Bittman
Dr. A. Black
Dr. A. Christens

Examining Committee
Dr. S. Smukler (Chair)
Dr. M. Krzic
Dr. S. Bittman
Dr. A. Black
Dr. A. Christens
Dr. L. Lavkulich (External)

UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces

The Oral Examination for the Degree of MSc in SOIL of

Qian TANG

N2 – Fixation and Seedling Growth Promotion of Lodgepole Pine by Wild-Type and GFP-Labeled Paenibacillus Polymyxa

Thursday, April 21, 2016 at  10:00 am FSC 3101

Supervisory Committee
Dr. C. Chanway
Dr. S. Grayston
Dr. R. Anand

Examining Committee
DrL. Lavkulich (Chair)
Dr. C. Chanway
Dr. S. Grayston
Dr. R. Anand
Dr. R. Guy (External)

 

FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WEIGHT STIGMA CONFERENCE

29-30 APRIL, 2016

VANCOUVER, CANADA

AGENTS OF CHANGE: ADDRESSING WEIGHT STIGMA THROUGH ACTIVISM, EDUCATION, AND POLICY

 

Despite the growth of weight stigma scholarship, weight-based oppression continues to be dominant within society, where thinness is privileged and fatness is oppressed. Given the harmful psychological and physiological consequences of weight stigma, exploring ways to change cultural attitudes and beliefs about body size is, therefore, ever more important. This year’s theme focuses on efforts, opportunities, and ideas for addressing weight stigma through activism, education, and policy.

2016 KEYNOTES

Marilyn Wann, activist: “Defending health and human rights from weight stigma”

Jolanda Jetten, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia: “When discrimination is considered legitimate, and the path to illegitimacy”

Kevin Lindsey, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Rights: “Beyond ‘obesity’: Navigating discrimination and disability laws”

For more information, full programme, and to register, visit: stigmaconference.com

About the Conference:  The Weight Stigma Conference is an inter-disciplinary event that brings together scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds (e.g., psychology, medicine, public health, sociology, allied health professions, education, sports and exercise science, social sciences, media studies, business, public policy, law) to consider research, policy, rhetoric, and practice around the issue of weight stigma.

UBC Faculty of Education is very pleased to announce a new M.Ed. in Educational Administration & Leadership, the NLAKA¹PAMUX NATION COHORT PROGRAM.  This program is being delivered at the NVIT Merritt Campus, beginning in September 2016 with applications due by May 15. 

Nmice qtns he Helew¹ Eagles Perch is excited to be a partner and to host the Nlaka¹pamux Nation M.Ed cohort on our traditional territories and unceded lands. We look forward to working with the Educational Administration and Leadership program in the Department of Educational Studies and the Office of Indigenous Education in the UBC Faculty of Education. 

Where appropriate, could you please share the announcement about this program and the two information sessions with faculty, staff and students of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems.  The info sessions are April 18 at NVIT Burnaby Campus and April 22 at NVIT Merritt Campus. 

·       The announcement is available by Brochure (PDF). 

Would you kindly share this message with those who may be interested in this new program? 

Kind regards,

Heather 

Heather McGregor
Professional Development & Community Engagement

Faculty of Education

The University of British Columbia

1304 ­ 2125 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC  Canada V6T 1Z4

pdce.educ.ubc.ca