Liz Novak, instructor for FNH 477 001 (2014W, term 1), is looking for students interested in TA’ing.

The job description can be found here:
http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/graduate/ta

Please contact Liz directly if you are interested.

The instructor of LFS 252 002 (2014 Winter Session, term 2) is looking for TA’s.
http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/graduate/ta

If you are interested, please contact Carol McAusland directly to discuss details.

Congratulations to Bryanna Thiel, MSc student, Soil Science, on receiving the 2013/14 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. UBC annually awards teaching prizes to 16 UBC Teaching Assistants in recognition of the valuable role they play in our undergraduate programs. Bryanna, a TA for the Land, Food and Community II (LFS 350) course taught by Associate Professor Eduardo Jovel, brings a great deal of enthusiasm and commitment and displays a strong interest in making sure the course lives up to her high standards. Bryanna is supervised by Dr. Sean Smukler.

The 2014 Winter Session TA on-line application has been closed.  Thank you to those students who submitted an application.  The list of applicants will be distributed to instructors within the next week.

Good morning:

I received several replies to my email from yesterday from students saying they hadn’t heard about the application for the 2014W TA positions within LFS so I’m sending this reminder.

The online TA application was posted on March 31 and will be open until midnight, Wednesday, April 30th.  From this link

http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/graduate/financial-aid/tas-markers-tutors

you’ll find a listing of job descriptions for course offerings that require TA support.  The hours shown in the job descriptions are, for the most part, the assigned hours from 2013-14.  Support hours for all courses are currently under review and won’t be finalized until mid-May.  Shortly after, instructors will be contacting their potential TA’s and in early June, I’ll start sending out contracts until mid-late July.  All TA appointments for 2014 Winter Session, terms 1 (September 2014 to December 2014) and 2 (January 2015 to April 2015) will be finalized by August 7^th (fingers were very tightly crossed when I typed that!).  There will always be a few exceptions and last minute changes, here and there, but for the most part our TA lists will be finalized with all student appointments processed by early August.

I’ve sent the above information to all current LFS graduate students, all 2013W LFS TA’s, all 2014S LFS TA’s, requested a posting on the LFS undergraduate blog, posted to the LFS Graduate Office blog, as well as the UBC TA Portal blog, but it’s still quite possible I’ve missed someone!  Please pass this information along to anyone you know who may be interested in a TA position within LFS during 2014 Winter Session.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Shelley

 

Shelley Small
Manager, Graduate Program
The University of British Columbia
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Room 344 MacMillan Building
2357 Main Mall
Vancouver BC  V6T 1Z4
Phone:  604-822-4593       Fax:  604-822-4400
lfs.gradmgr@ubc.ca          www.landfood.ubc.ca