Yaxi Hu (Food Science) Receives the Donald A. Withycombe Graduate Fellowship Award at the 255th ACS Conference

Congratulations to our Food Science PhD student Yaxi Hu (supervisor: Dr. Xiaonan Lu) who received the 1st place of the graduate student competition last night and won the Donald A. Withycombe Graduate Fellowship Award at the 255th American Chemistry Society Annual Meeting, the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division in New Orleans.

Her presentation is entitled “Development of innovative techniques for food authentication – the last barrier to prevent food fraud”. The other five finalists are senior PhD students from Department of Food Science at UMass, UCDavis and Cornell University.

We have just posted twelve student positions with the CSFS at UBC Farm for the 2018  season. The application deadline is 11:59pm on Sunday, March 25th, 2018. Please help me forward this to any relevant mailing lists or your personal contacts as soon as possible. If you have a moment, please also share our Facebook post on your social media.

A variety of seasonal positions are available. The available positions are as follows:

• Hoophouse Worker
• Wholesale Worker
• Market Sales Worker
• Academic Program Worker (1-2 positions)
• BC Seed Trial Worker
• Web Software Project Worker
• Outreach Worker
• Children’s Program Worker (2-4 positions)

 CSFS at UBC Farm Seasonal Positions 2018

Details of their duties and the application instructions are attached as a pdf here and also available on our careers page.

 Thank you for your help in spreading the word! We are excited for the 2017 season!

Chiyi 

Chiyi Tam
Administration and Site Coordinator
Faculty of Land and Food Systems | Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm
The University of British Columbia | Farm Street Address: 3461 Ross Drive
2357 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 822 5092 | Cell 778 847 1491
chiyi.tam@ubc.ca | @UBCFarm
http://ubcfarm.ubc.ca

MFRE Speaker Series

 Speaker: Dr. Sean Smukler

Topic: Agriculture and Climate Change

Date & Time: Friday, March 23rd, 3:30 PM

Venue: ORCH 1001 

About the Speaker:

Originally from Berkeley, California, Smukler earned a PhD in Ecology at the University of California, Davis (2008) – where he spent time working on the UC Davis student farm – and an MSc in Forest Soils at the University of Washington in Seattle (2003).

Prior to joining our Faculty in January 2012, Smukler spent three years at The Earth Institute at Columbia University as a Post Doctoral Fellow and then an Associate Research Scientist in the Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program. His research was focused on the Millennium Village project, a large-scale development project mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where he evaluated the environmental impacts of interventions at project sites in Tanzania and Kenya and helped in the baseline analysis of a new site in Haiti. 

Excerpt taken from: http://reachout.landfood.ubc.ca/2012/sean-smukler/

 All are welcome! 

Best regards,

Shristee

 

Shristee Rahman  MFRE
Educational Researcher
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
shristee.rahman@ubc.ca
http://mfre.landfood.ubc.ca

Waitlist registration is now open for the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) May 28, 29, 31 2018.  The ISW is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation. In addition, graduate students in STEM departments are eligible to become CIRTL associates upon completion of the workshop.   The ISW is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience.  Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.

IMPORTANT: The workshop runs from 8:15am-5:00pm. Please note you must be able to attend all three days, i.e. the entire 24-hour workshop. 

 Grad ISW FAQs

 

This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the May 28, 29, 31 2018 ISW please go to the following link and sign-up: https://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/graduate-instructional-skills-workshop-may-28-29-31-2018/ . Waitlist registration will close on Friday at 4:30pm. By clicking this link, you can register for the waitlist, however this does not register you for the workshop. If you are accepted into the workshop, you will be contacted directly by our office.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Julia 

Julia Levasseur
Senior Events Program Assistant
Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
214-1961 East Mall  | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z1 Canada
Phone 604 822 0064
julia.levasseur@ubc.ca | @UBC_CTLT
http://www.ctlt.ubc.ca/

 

There is a free event at The Vancouver Aquarium that your students might be interested in! Details below and poster attached.

OceanMattersLecture_Poster_March2018

Event: How to Tell Good Climate Science from Bad | Ocean Matters March Lecture
Date: Tuesday 27 March
Time: 7pm (doors 6.30pm)
Price: Free, but register to guarantee your seat
Location: The Vancouver Aquarium
Description: Watching TV or browsing social media we are constantly bombarded with facts and statistics about climate change, the environment and what we should to do to reduce our environmental impact. These seem to change from day to day, so it can seem impossible to know what is really going on. This lecture will demonstrate how some of these statistics and facts are obtained and how you can use scientific critical thinking to decide how reliable they are. Everyone is welcome, whether you have never taken a science class or just want to learn some skills to improve your critical thinking.
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Sharpe | Ruth is the Public Programs Manager at Ocean Wise. She earned her PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia in August 2017 and is a passionate science communicator.
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible and ASL signed.
Webpage: vanaqua.org/oceanmatters

If you have any questions please let me know.

Many Thanks,

Ruth

Ruth Sharpe, PhD
Manager of Public Programs

Ruth.Sharpe@ocean.org
D 604 659 3497