10 seats remain for the Roundtable with Raj Patel. We are finalizing our numbers for catering. Thank you.

Join award-winning author, activist, and academic Raj Patel to discuss the global food crisis and innovations to address the future of food.

When: 9:00AM-10:30AM, Thursday, February 11^th
Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues – Multipurpose Room
Breakfast provided. Please RSVP by Feb. 9^th as space is limited to 40 students.

Roundtable with Raj Patel – Invitation

Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist, and academic. He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Cornell University. He worked for the World Bank and World Trade Organization, and has become a vocal critic of these organizations. His first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and his latest, The Value of Nothing, is a New York Times best-seller.

Best,

Lindsay

Lindsay Marsh, MA

Communications and Program Development | Faculty of Arts | Liu Institute for Global Issues

The University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Traditional Territory of the Musqueam People

Phone 604 822 1672 | Fax 604 822 6966

lindsay.marsh@ubc.ca

http://www.ligi.ubc.ca | http://mppga.ubc.ca/

We will be interviewing two candidates for an Instructor I position in Human Nutrition, on Wednesday, February 10 and Friday, February 26.

See details below. We hope you will be able to attend!

Melanie

Teaching Sessions: Candidates for Faculty Position – Instructor I (Human Nutrition)

Candidate: Dr. Fatheema Subhan
Date & Location: Wednesday, February 10, SCARFE 1005 (2329 West Mall) (add to calendar)

• 9:10-9:50 am – a mock undergraduate class session on the topic of “Assessing zinc status”
• 10:00-10:30 am – a presentation on the candidate’s teaching philosophy and proposed approach to planning and teaching a 3^rd year undergraduate course on “Nutrition Assessment”

Background: Dr. Fatheema Subhan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Agricultural Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta.  She completed her PhD in Human Nutrition at the University of Alberta in 2013.

 

Candidate: Dr. Gail Hammond
Date & Location: Friday, February 26, FNH 50 (2205 East Mall) (add to calendar)

• 9:10-9:50 am – a mock undergraduate class session on the topic of “Assessing zinc status”
• 10:00-10:30 am – a presentation on the candidate’s teaching philosophy and proposed approach to planning and teaching a 3^rd year undergraduate course on “Nutrition Assessment”

Background:  Dr. Gail Hammond is a Lecturer in the Food, Nutrition and Health Program in our Faculty.  She completed her PhD in Human Nutrition at UBC in 2010.

Melanie Train
Faculty Liaison | Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver campus
248 – 2357 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC  Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone 604 822 3105 | Fax 604 822 6394
melanie.train@ubc.ca

www.landfood.ubc.ca

The UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) is pleased to once again partner with the City of Vancouver in 2016, supporting UBC graduate students to work with the City in funded internship projects that help advance Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Plan goals.

Current graduate students at UBC Vancouver, from all academic disciplines, are eligible to apply. Each successful candidate will receive $5000 to complete 250 hours (part-time) project work between early May and mid-August 2016.

We hope these opportunities will be of interest to graduate students across LFS programs, and would greatly appreciate if you would please circulate the details provided below to your grad student network.

Further information on the 21 available internship projects can be found at our website: http://bit.ly/1m8oBkQ

Applications close 11:59pm Monday 22^nd February 2016.

If you have any questions about our program or the projects offered, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for your help in notifying your graduate students about these opportunities!

All the best,

Katie Dolling 

Program Manager | UBC Sustainability Initiative

The University of British Columbia

Room 2346, 2260 West Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4

Phone 604 822-4693 | katie.dolling@ubc.ca | www.sustain.ubc.ca

Panel Discussion and Workshop | February 11

Join us for a lively discussion with some of Vancouver’s most accomplished community leaders and visionaries on building sustainable and resilient communities. This will be followed by a workshop facilitated by graduate UBC SCARP students.

Eventbrite RSVP required: http://bit.ly/1ZI2E9G

Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1S07ZKL

When: Thursday (February 11) at 6:00pm

Where: UBC Liu Institute for Global Affairs (6476 NW Marine Drive)

 

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | INTERDISCIPLINARY SOLUTIONS

Panel Discussion and Workshop | February 25

Our second panel discussion and workshop will feature an interactive discussion on achieving interdisciplinary solutions to international development. Panelists and facilitators will range from various disciplines and backgrounds, including the BC Council for International Cooperation.

Eventbrite RSVP: http://bit.ly/1QeI8Z7

Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1o9t7kL

When: Thursday (February 11) at 6:00pm

Where: UBC Liu Institute for Global Affairs (6476 NW Marine Drive)

 

Where will the events take place?

UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues (6476 NW Marine Dr)

We are looking at holding preliminary 3MT “heats” for LFS during the LFS Grad Student Conference on March 3rd.

For those unfamiliar with 3MT, it is an academic competition that assists current graduate students with fostering effective presentation and communication skills. Participants have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience.

If this is something that you would be interested in doing please let us know ASAP!

For more information, please contact use by replying to this email, or by visting their website (http://3mt.grad.ubc.ca).

Also just a reminder, LFS Grad Student Conference abstracts are due Sunday, Feb 7 at midnight!

Thanks,

John
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Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Student Council

lfsgrads@gmail.com