March 10 – Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award – Call for nominations

In recognition of the valuable role that Teaching Assistants play in our programs, UBC annually awards 19 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards. Each UBC Killam GTA Award includes a certificate and $1,000. The calls for nominations for the Killam GTA Award for the Faculty of Land and Food Systems are open and can be submitted by any student, faculty or staff who have worked closely with the TA they are nominating.

Eligibility: The award is open to any UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant who acts or has acted in this position at UBC Vancouver during the current and/or preceding academic year (2022-23 and/or 2021-22).

Award Criteria: https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/teaching-resources/killam-gta-award/

Nomination Process:

To honor the anonymity of students supporting their TAs and to streamline the adjudication process, the Learning Centre has developed a two-step nomination process: (1) nomination with a deadline on February 25, 2023, and (2) documents submissions with a deadline at 3 pm on Macch 10, 2023.

For TAs Self-Nominating Themselves:

1. Submit a self-nomination using the Qualtrics form
2. Create your nomination package as a 4-page document (see details) that includes
   1. Your philosophy statement.
   2. Your teaching responsibilities
3. Submit your nomination package using the Qualtrics form
4. Request support letters from students and instructors.
   1. Download and fill out a standard support letter form
   2. Submit it via the Qualtrics form

For Students, Instructors and Graduate Students/TAs nominating another TA:

1. Submit a nomination using the Qualtrics form: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ehu2M3uWrhjFlGK
   1. The nominee will be notified and reminded to prepare a nomination package
2. Download and fill out a standard support letter form
3. Submit it via the Qualtrics form

Names of undergraduate students who have submitted a nomination or support letter will not be disclosed to the nominees. Only PDF file submissions will be accepted for the nomination package and support letters. All details can be viewed on: https://lc.landfood.ubc.ca/teaching-resources/killam-gta-award/

If you have any questions and feedback about the nomination process, please contact Judy Chan (judy.chan@ubc.ca).

Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference (Calgary) – apply for a full student sponsorship by Thursday, Feb. 2!

LFS is sponsoring a student: Advancing Women in Ag Conference (Calgary)

Start your career with inspiration, direction and a network at your fingertips!

The LFS Deans Office is sponsoring a student to attend the 2023 Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference (AWC), March 12-14, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Downtown in Calgary, Alberta.

You must apply online before 11:59 p.m. Thursday, February 2, 2023 for consideration. This is open to female undergraduate and graduate students in Land and Food Systems. The student who best explains why they are interested in attending the conference, and how they hope the program will benefit their career will be selected.

The student sponsorship will include the following:

·         Two nights’ accommodation (Sunday and Monday) at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary

·         Registration fee to attend AWC West 2023

·         Airfare – the Deans Office will also pay travel costs to & from Calgary, Alberta to attend the conference

COMPLETE THE STUDENT APPLICATION FORM and review full details:

https://www.advancingwomenconference.ca/2023west/student-application/

STUDENT APPLICATION – Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference www.advancingwomenconference.ca What does Sponsorship cover? If you are selected to attend the conference, Student Sponsorship covers: Two nights accommodations (Sunday and Monday) at the Hyatt Regency Calgary (contact Iris to discuss if you are coming in from outside Alberta.) Your Registration Fee to attend AWC WEST 2023 Conference

The application includes uploading a video (up to 3 minutes). If you have any questions during the application process, email Karen.lee98@ubc.ca.

For AWC 2023 conference details, visit www.advancingwomenconference.ca/2023west/.

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Karen Lee (She, Her, Hers)
Director of Marketing and Communications
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
2357 Main Mall | Vancouver British Columbia | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Phone 604 827 5297 | Cell 604 312 6343
karen.lee98@ubc.ca | @ubcLFS
http://www.landfood.ubc.ca

Changes to the Graduate Student Travel and Research Dissemination Fund

As of January 2023, the application and payment process for the Graduate Student Travel and Research Dissemination Fund has been streamlined.

Key changes:

• Eligible applicants will now receive a lump sum award offer of $500
  • Previously, applicants received up to $500 depending on receipts submitted
• Receipts are no longer required as part of the application
  • Refer to the award webpage for details on application requirements
• The application form has been updated:
  • To remove the request for the applicant’s summary of expenses
  • To include a section specifically for applicants indicating an open access publishing charge.
  • To include language regarding Workday payment (ie. payment to faculty members)

Please see below opportunity for your undergraduate and graduate student networks ???? You can also engage with our posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Applications are now open for UBC undergraduate and graduate students to join the Fall 2023 Sustainability Ambassadors cohorts.

Bring ideas for human and environmental wellbeing to life, develop your leadership skills and inspire the UBC community to create positive and meaningful change, while building your network and connections with other student leaders through the Sustainability Ambassadors program.

Find out more and apply by February 13 at sustain.ubc.ca/armbassadors.

Working as part of a team under the guidance of a Sustainability Lead, Sustainability Ambassadors deliver programming to UBC’s Vancouver campus community based on one of the five themes – biodiversity, climate, climate resilient communities, ethical civic engagement, and justice.

Natalie Hawryshkewich (She, Her, Hers)

Communication and Engagement Specialist
Sustainability Hub
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability 2260 West Mall, 2nd Floor | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4
Phone 604 827 2606
natalie.haw@ubc.ca
https://sustain.ubc.ca/hub | http://climateemergency.ubc.ca/

The UBC Vancouver campus is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

Learn more about our vision for a just and sustainable world, and our 5-year plan to bring it to life. sustain.ubc.ca/hub

Hi everyone,

This week’s IRES Seminar is in Michael Smith Labs Theatre (102-2185 East Mall).  REMINDER: No food or drinks allowed in the Theatre.

January 26, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Hamilton

Talk Title: Weathering

Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm

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

This seminar is in-person only.

This seminar will not be recorded.

Talk summary:

This talk will define the feminist concept of “weathering” and describe how it can be used to guide research design and analysis in interdisciplinary environmental studies. We will illustrate how this concept works using practical examples from our own research as The Weathering Collective, and other initiatives in Canada (The FEELed Lab) and Australia (Community Weathering Station). People interested in climate change want us to speak about the rain, but we want to speak about social relations. Attentive to the logic of weathering, we can build a new language to speak about how meteorological weather intersects with anthropocentric politics and infrastructures in ways that insist that weather, and by extension climate change, are always more-than-meteorological. Weathering demands that research on climate change attend to the experiences and inheritances of bodies in all of their differences. As we are always weathering, how can we use this capacious concept to help shape research methods and questions? How might these questions illuminate different kinds of mitigation and adaptation measures as necessary for better weathering?

Dr. Astrida Neimanis (right), Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, and Director of the FEELed Lab at UBC Okanagan
Dr. Jennifer Hamilton (left), Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at University of New England, founder of The Community Weathering Station

Bio:

Astrida Neimanis is Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, and Director of the FEELed Lab at UBC Okanagan (Kelowna, Canada); Jennifer Mae Hamilton is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at UNE (Armidale, Australia) and founder of CoWS (The Community Weathering Station). Since 2015,  Jennifer and Astrida have been been experimenting, researching, writing, and making together: as co-coordinators of COMPOSTING Feminisms and the Environmental Humanities; as co-convenors of Hacking the Anthropocene 2016-2018, and (with Tessa Zettel) as founding members of The Weathering Collective. Their most recent co-authored publication is “Feminist Infrastructures for Better Weathering” (Australian Feminist Studies, 2021).

See you on Thursday in the Michael Smith Labs Theatre!

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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