If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in Food Science Engineering, you may want to check out this opportunity to travel for free to Halifax to learn more about the graduate opportunities and scholarships within a number of their Engineering and Food Science Programs.
Deadline to apply is Oct 25th. For more information, visit their website, or click on the poster link below:
Featuring a Mediterranean-themed dinner:
1. Entree: Chicken Shawarma (or Portobello) Pitta Wrap
2. Salad: Parsley Tabbouleh
3. Side dish: Zucchini fritter
4. Dessert: Roz Bel Laban
What are Wednesday Night Dinners (WND)?
What : The LFS Undergraduate Society’s well known nutritious and deliciously themed dinner featuring the produce grown from the local orchard garden.
When: Every Wednesday at 5 pm (unless specified)
Where: Agora space (H.R. MacMillan bldg.)
Why: …Why not? It’s an affordable and delicious dinner that will build a sense of community within the faculty of LFS. It’s a great way to meet other fellow LFS’ers!
Volunteer for the Wednesday Night Dinners:
The Special Events Coordinators are recruiting volunteers to help organize the dinners! Volunteer duties include preparing, cooking and serving food, cleaning dishes and utensils, and building the LFS community. For more information, please contact LFSUS.president@landfood.ubc.ca.
Are you a first year student and new to UBC? We have an event for you! The LFS|US and LFS Student Services office have teamed up to create an afternoon of fun!
WHEN: Thursday, October 3
WHERE: Student Recreation Centre (SRC) – details to follow
TIME: 4 – 6pm
COST: FREE!
WHAT: Dodge ball, followed by make-your-own sundaes. If dodge ball’s not your style, come to cheer on your fellow first year students and have some ice cream!
Not sure how to play dodge ball? Don’t worry! There will be staff on hand to teach us. This is meant to be a fun and easy game that EVERYONE can play! If you want to learn more now, you can check out this Beginner’s Guide to Dodge Ball.
RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming so we can ensure we have enough ice cream. Please click here to RSVP.
***Programs run for entire duration of Reading Week: February 15 – 23 ***
Sustainability & Conservation (Costa Rica)
Sustainability & Solidarity (Mexico)
Application deadlines: 1st round – Oct. 24
To find out more or to sign up check out below
On Monday September 30th, 2013, UBC’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) will be hosting a recruitment night at the William A. Webber Medical Student & Alumni Centre (on the corner of W 12th Ave. & Heather Street) @ 7pm.
GHI is a student-led initiative that seeks to enhance global health education, and provides students the opportunity to take part in health projects globally, in such countries as Kenya, Uganda, Honduras, India and Canada. The event is open to all interested students! To learn more about the initiative, and all ongoing projects, visit http://globalhealth.med.ubc.ca/service/student-groups/global-health-initiative/.
It’s back! Every Wednesday night at 5PM (unless otherwise noted), the LFS|US hosts Wednesday Night Dinners at the Agora Space located in the H.R. MacMillan Building. The infamous Wednesday Night Dinners only costs $5 so the food disappears fast! Make sure you remember to bring your own container to skip the line!
Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO), a student-run and AMS constituted, club here at UBC. We will be launching a program this September called The Research EXperience (REX).
What is REX?
REX is a year long program designed to help undergraduate students build essential research skills via the designing of a prospective research project (no results, lab time, or lab resources required). The skills to be acquired by the prospective students including, but are not limited to:
For more info, attend our REX Student Orientation Session on Thursday, September 26th, from 5-6:30pm, in location TBC. Don’t forget to check out our website and like us on Facebook for updates, news, and photos of our events!
You can also save time and Pre-Register to REX now!
Impact is the difference between what would happen with action and what would happen without it. In the end, this is what matters; it is what affects communities, students and institutions like UBC. This symposium will unpack the notion of impact in international development and critically examine our pursuit of it.
October 19, 2013
9 am – 5 pm
Henry Angus Building, UBC
The Symposium will feature;
This Event is Free and Open to the Public, Registration is necessary
Register here to ensure a space at the event. If possible, spaces will be available for registration on the morning of the event but not guaranteed. To avoid disappointment, please register in advance
Refreshments and Lunch will be provided
The UBC Terry Project is thrilled to begin our search for this year’s TEDx Terry Talk speakers. Held November 2nd 2013, The TEDx Terry Talks are an independently organized, student-led TED conference, with 8 student speakers from a range of backgrounds and interests coming together to give the talk of their lives.
Do you (or someone you know) have something to say?
Donʼt miss this unique opportunity to speak to 350 of your peers, and many more online at http://www.terry.ubc.ca and potentially TED.com. We are looking for talks that are 18 minutes or less, about any subject matter you find compelling. For a sense of what previous students have spoken on, please visit: http://www.terry.ubc.ca/tedxterrytalks/.
Itʼs pretty simple to apply; weʼre not going to ask for much – just a video and a short application. Please check out http://www.terry.ubc.ca/tedxterrytalks/ for more details on where to submit your application. The application deadline is Friday September 27th, 2013.
Check out their Twitter for more info and updates!
Look before you eat!
Meet the people behind the food, FREE samples and tasting.
DATE: September 25, Wednesday
TIME: 11am to 1:30pm
LOCATION: outside Triple-O’s patio
Chef Demo by Chef Steve Golob. 11:30am – 1:00pm
Information booths from Ethical Bean, Starbucks Coffee, Zhena’s Gypsy Tea, Engineers without Borders, Social Conscience Sport Balls, Happy Planet, Steaz, Green Century Paper Products, Yerba Mate, and UBC Farm.
EVENT MISSION:
Encourage our community to look at where their food and other goods come from. Whether it is a kitchen, farm, factory, or fair trade, we continually make consumer choices that can show our support for sustainable and ethical business practices.
Help connect campus food consumers to campus providers and BC food producers
For information and recipes visit: www.soupscoop.wordpress.com
