UBC’s Sustainability Initiative is proud to release the 2018-19 Annual Sustainability Report

November 15, 2019

Across both campuses last year, UBC focused on enhancing human and ecological health together, addressing affordability pressures and improving accessibility, enabling students, faculty and staff to make powerful contributions to sustainability, and increasing collaboration on sustainability issues by expanding local, regional, and international community engagement.

Visit sustain.ubc.ca/report to find out how UBC is putting sustainability at the heart of teaching, learning and research, operations and infrastructure, and community.

The New Great Reads Collection at UBC Education Library: A Call for Book Suggestions

By epederso

November 14, 2019

Have you checked out the new Great Reads collection at the Education Library? Located on the main level of the library, the Great Reads collection features fiction and non-fiction books for adult and young adult audiences. The purpose of the collection is to support the practice of leisure reading.

In addition to supporting health and wellness in general, reading for pleasure can lead to positive effects on academic performance. In “Why Your Academic Library Needs a Popular Reading Collection Now More Than Ever,” Dewan (2010) argues that reading for pleasure “provides opportunities for the focused and sustained reading that students are doing with less frequency since the advent of the Internet.” (p. 10). According to Rathe and Blankenship (2006), leisure reading can help students see new perspectives, support the comprehension of more difficult texts, and develop critical thinking skills. Reading for pleasure is relaxing, informative, and can open up new understandings of humanity.

Do you have a suggestion for a “great read”? What book has inspired you? Let us know, and we may add it to the collection. Submit your suggestion here: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7a3BXz2jJmBROXr

Great Reads collections can be found at many of UBC’s libraries. For more information on UBC Library’s Great Reads collections, visit: https://greatreads.library.ubc.ca/

References

Dewan, P. (2010). Why your academic library needs a popular reading collection now more than ever. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 17(1), 44-64.

Rathe, B., & Blankenship, L. (2006). Recreational reading collections in academic libraries. Collection Management, 30(2), 73-85.

LLED Scholarship Stories: Dr. Anthony Paré

By domansky

October 16, 2019

For the next Scholarship Stories video interview, we sit down with Dr. Anthony Paré, Professor and previous Head of the Department of Language & Literacy Education. In our interview, we talk about Anthony’s research in academic writing, particularly in the context of doctoral education. He speaks also about his work in rhetoric and discourse, and in education.

You can watch the full interview on our website or Youtube channel.

If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Anthony Paré, please visit https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/anthony-pare/

Congratulations to Dr. Bonny Norton on being awarded a Public Humanities Course-Release Award

By domansky

November 6, 2019

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bonny Norton for being one of only four UBC faculty awarded a Public Humanities Course-Release Award by the new Public Humanities Hub (PHH) at UBC-Vancouver. These awards support research excellence among Humanities scholars in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Education at UBC and help to develop and highlight public-facing research in the Humanities.

Well done Bonny!

SESSIONAL AND LECTURER FACULTY TEACHING PRIZE 2019/20

By lu tian

The Faculty of Education has a long-standing commitment to excellence in teaching. In recognition of the significant contribution that Sessional and Lecturer faculty members make to our programs, the Faculty of Education offers a Sessional and Lecturer Faculty Teaching Prize to outstanding educators. The prize includes both a plaque and $1000 and is awarded at the year-end Faculty meeting in May.

For eligibility, criteria, nomination process and deadline, please visit https://teach.educ.ubc.ca/sessional-and-lecturer-faculty-teaching-prize-2019-20/.

Killam Faculty Teaching Prize 2019/20

By lu tian

The Faculty of Education has a long history of emphasizing the importance of exceptional teaching.
The Faculty recognizes two full-time tenure track faculty members each year with a prize of $5000 and a plaque, awarded at convocation.

For eligibility, criteria, nomination process and deadline, please visit https://teach.educ.ubc.ca/killam-faculty-teaching-prize-2019-20/.

LLED Scholarship Stories: Dr. Victoria Surtees

By domansky

October 30, 2019

In this episode of the Scholarship Stories, we chat with Dr. Victoria Surtees, Lecturer in the TESL certificate program and the B.Ed. program in LLED. She shares with us her thoughts in language learning outside traditional classroom environments, and ways to support language learners. Victoria also speaks to us about using mobile devices to bridge the gap between what’s happening outside and inside the classroom, and how international multilingual students contribute to changes in universities today.

You can watch the full interview on our website or Youtube channel.

If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Victoria Surtees’s research and work, please visit her academia page.

Call for Proposals – STEM2020

By lindsey snyder

6th International STEM in Education Conference – STEM2020

We invite you to submit a proposal to present at The 6th International STEM in Education Conference – Changing the Story in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada July 9-11, 2020 (http://stem2020.ubc.ca). The conference will focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education across formal and informal contexts and its implications for academia, business, industry, and society. We invite K-12 and post-secondary educators, students, and researchers from formal and informal education sectors, business and industry leaders, and representatives of non-profit, private, and public agencies. STEM 2020 is an opportunity to share and discuss innovative practices and research initiatives that advance STEM education.

Conference theme is Changing the Story

Call for Proposals closes November 3, 2019. Presenters, whose papers are accepted, will be invited to submit their full papers to be published in the peer-reviewed online STEM 2020 Conference Proceedings. Guidelines are available on the conference website: http://stem2020.ubc.ca

LLED Scholarship Stories: Dr. Ling Shi

By domansky

October 23, 2019

For this next episode of Scholarship Stories, we discuss topics related to TESL and second language writing with Professor Dr. Ling Shi. During the interview, Ling speaks to us about her research interests in text borrowing and citations practices in second language writing, teaching of EFL writing, and various other issues in university second language writing.

You can watch the full interview on our website or Youtube channel.

If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Ling Shi, please visit https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/ling-shi/

UBC Deadline NSERC Discovery Grants

By domansky

All applications to the Discovery Grant competition (including the Subatomic Physics program) and the Research Tools & Instruments competition must be electronically submitted via NSERC’s Research Portal. Please follow procedures described in NSERC’s Discovery Grant and RTI program outlines.

UBC and National DEADLINES

Discovery Grant full application

UBC internal deadline (see procedure #3): Monday, October 28, 2019 at 8:30am
Applicant’s e-Submission Deadline (see procedure #4 on ORS website): You may continue to work on your online application after you have submitted your package to ORS. Your final application should be submitted via the Research Portal on Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 12:00pm
Sponsor deadline: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 4:30pm

Research Tools and Instruments (RTI)

UBC internal deadline (see procedure #3): Monday, October 21, 2019 at 8:30 am
Applicant’s e-Submission Deadline (see procedure#4 on ORS website): You may continue to work on your online application after you have submitted your package to ORS. Your final application should be submitted via the Research Portal on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 12:00pm
Sponsor deadline: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 4:30 pm

Note: The NSERC deadline for Project applications requesting $500,000 or more per year to the Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants Program only is October 1, 2019.

While ORS makes every effort to submit all applications on time and to facilitate support for our research community, applications submitted after UBC internal deadline will not receive a guarantee of administrative review from ORS, which includes confirmation for application completeness.

Useful resource: Research Portal – Frequently Asked Questions