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Deans Message for LFS Community Connects: July 2021
As UBC campus attractions are open this summer, I invite those of you in the Lower Mainland – and those of you who may in town this summer – to come by and visit!
Webinar Event: How Research and Innovation Drive the Food Industry
Join our webinar on June 22 to learn about food innovation at UBC and how industry partners work with our researchers to move BC forward.
Meet our Faculty Advisory Board
Meet our Faculty Advisory Board Our Faculty is fortunate to be housed on the beautiful UBC Vancouver campus (we may be biased), but it can sometimes feel isolated. The Faculty Advisory Board was established to help bridge that gap. The Board includes key individuals who are experts in their fields, and who provide an independent […]
Message from the Dean
A Message from the Dean We are starting a new chapter at LFS with a renewed strategic plan. Called Navigating a Better Future: Action Plan 2021-2026, this is a culmination of a year of working group discussions and input from many people as we articulated our strengths and defined a new vision to strive […]
Celebrating 20 years at UBC Farm, 10 years for CSFS
Celebrating 20 years at UBC Farm, 10 years at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems Located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hənq̓ ̓əmin̓əm-speaking x ̓ ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people, the UBC Farm continues the long xʷməθkʷəy̓əm tradition of learning and harvesting on these lands. UBC students started growing food here in the […]
News & Notes, Milestones
News & Notes Sarah Common Alumni: Creating Safe Spaces in the Downtown Eastside Sarah Common (BSc Global Resource Systems 2009) won a 2020-21 UBC Alumni Builder Award for the unique social impact of Hives for Humanity. Common, who is Executive Director and Co-Founder, is quick to point out that she is one person among […]
New Faculty Profile: Jean-Thomas Cornelis
New Faculty Profile: Jean-Thomas Cornelis Jean-Thomas Cornelis joined the Faculty’s Applied Biology program in February 2021 as an Assistant Professor. He came from Belgium’s University of Liège where he was an Assistant Professor in soil science. Cornelis has set up the SoilRes3 Lab, which stands for Soil Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration. A biogeochemist and […]
Serendipitous Path in Food Science
Serendipitous Path in Food Science PhD Candidate Lennie Cheung has already ventured down some interesting pathways in her food science career. After obtaining her MSc in Food Science, Cheung became the first foreign female researcher in Japan’s second largest natural gas provider. While working in Osaka over a three-year period, Cheung set up a […]
New Faculty Profile: Andrea Frommel
New Faculty Profile: Andrea Frommel Andrea Frommel will join the Applied Biology program on July 1 as an Assistant Professor and Chair of Sustainable Aquaculture. Originally from Mountain View, California, she received her PhD in Fisheries Biology from the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow with […]
Nature’s Weapon Against Food-Borne Pathogens
Microscopic bacteria-eating viruses, known as bacteriophages or phages, are coming into favour as a way to combat food-borne pathogens. Found naturally in the environment, phages are a promising alternative to antimicrobials used in food products because of their ability to hone in and destroy targeted bacteria while leaving ‘good’ bacteria intact.