Dear LFS Graduate Students,

Have you ever taken a class or webinar and found yourself asking questions such as:

Why am I learning this? What is the point?

Is this examinable?

Where is this lesson going?

An effective lesson plan mitigates these questions and provides a clear guide for the teacher and learner, both of which are often concurrent responsibilities for many graduate students. Developing a lesson plan employs many transferable skills that may be beneficial for our careers post-graduation, whether in academia, industry, or other routes. Learn how to develop an effective lesson plan at the workshop below:

Lesson Planning Workshop (for LFS TAs)

Now open to all LFS Graduate Students

Fri, Apr 30 (10 – 11:30 AM PDT)

via Zoom

Register here: http://bit.ly/LFSTA_LessonPlanning 

Learn how to ensure alignment between lesson activities and planned assessment, develop a lesson plan, and discuss your current lesson planning strategies. Facilitated by Peter Grin (CTLT Facilitator and PhD Candidate, Faculty of Medicine).

Best regards,

LFS TA Training Program Coordinators (Tebby and Lennie)

 

Our final deadline for graduate student applications to the Tech Entrepreneurship (APSC541/BAEN506) course (hosted by Sauder and APSC) is fast approaching (May 4th).  You have been kind enough to promote this amongst your student body providing details regarding this unique course.

In this regard, we are hopeful that you will be able to send one final reminder to your graduate students noting that applications are due May 4th (we will not accept applications after this date). Again – details about the course are provided below in the initial email, and students can find more information on the following info/application site: https://blogs.ubc.ca/baen506apsc541techentrepreneurship/ .

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support.  Thank you in advance.

Warmest Regards

DJ (David) Miller
UBC-Sauder School of Business
djmiller@sauder.ubc.ca

INTERNAL Deadline: April 28, 2021

CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award

The CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards are made to individuals who have completed PhD dissertations representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Graduate programs may submit up to two nominations: one in Biological Sciences/Life Sciences and one in Humanities and Fine Arts. To be eligible, the nominee must have completed their doctoral degree requirements in the period of July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021, inclusive. UBC will forward one nominee in each category to the international competition (open to all institutions who are members of the Council of Graduate Schools in the US and Canada).

Two CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards, each consisting of an award of $2,000 and a certificate of recognition, will be presented at the CGS Annual Meeting Awards Luncheon in December 2021, in New Orleans, LA. Reasonable travel expenses of award recipients will be covered.

Note to graduate programs: This award is very competitive – PhD dissertations from universities across North America are forwarded to this competition. UBC graduate programs are strongly encouraged to only forward nominations that are competitive with those from top PhDs throughout North America.

Graduate program nomination deadline: Friday, 11 June 2021 at 4:00 pm PST

For detailed eligibility requirements, application procedures, and nomination procedures, please see: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/cgsproquest-distinguished-dissertation-award

UBC – Faculty of Land and Food Systems Announces The Oral Examination for the Degree of

Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Animal Biology)

Kathrin Lydia Schirmann

“Dairy Cow Behaviour and Estrous Expression: Effects of Disease and Management”

9:00 AM on Tuesday, May 4th, 2021

Virtually

 

EXAMINING COMMITTEE

Chair: Dr. E. Jan

Supervisory Committee:
Dr. R. Cerri – Supervisor
Dr. M. von Keyserlingk – Co-supervisor
Dr. D. Weary – Committee member
Dr. L. Lavkulich – Committee member

Defense Committee Composition
Dr. R. Cerri – Supervisor
Dr. M. von Keyserlingk – Co-supervisor
Dr. D. Weary – Committee member
Dr. C. Brauner – University Examiner
Dr. M. Isman – University Examiner

Congratulations Hadis for winning the Discipline Specific Project Awards of the REX program in UBC!

Hadis Mozaffari is a PhD student in the Human Nutrition program under the supervision of Dr. Annalijn Conklin. Hadis was accepted as a mentor in UBC’s 2020-2021 REX Program and spent the past 7 months mentoring two undergraduate students in systematic review methodology.

Hadis received 1 of the 5 REX Discipline Specific Project Awards under Land and Food systems and Forestry for her strong and successful mentorship of both REX students for the project titled, ‘Examining the impact of whole dietary approaches on type 2 diabetes’. Despite the pandemic, 137 REX groups consisting of almost 400 undergraduate students completed their REX projects online.

REX Awards 2020-2021