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Christopher Mulya Class of 2023
Class of 2023: Christopher Mulya (BSc Food, Nutrition and Health) Major in Food Science How did LFS match your personal and/or professional interests? LFS provided a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the complex interactions between land, food, society, and the environment. As someone who is passionate about food and nutrition, LFS offered an opportunity to delve […]
Meghan Lok Class of 2023
Class of 2023: Meghan Lok (BSc Applied Biology) Major in Applied Animal Biology How did you hear about LFS at UBC? I actually entered UBC as a Science undergraduate intending to major in general Biology. While I knew what I did not want to do at this point, I was not provided with the environment, […]
Julia Taylor, Class of 2023
Class of 2023: Julia Taylor (BSc Global Resource Systems) How did LFS match your personal and/or professional interests? This Faculty, and my program especially, gave me the chance to develop existing interests as well as discover new ones through the course of my winding journey of exploring courses and changing my mind a million times […]
Baby’s first bites: How to introduce food allergens to infants
May is Food Allergy Awareness Month in Canada. PhD candidate Brock Williams, a registered dietitian, talks about safely introducing potential allergens to an infant for the first time.
Classroom learning: Insights from teaching award recipient
Teaching Assistant Tony Yang talks about helping students learn new concepts, and what he took away from being in the classroom.
LFS Community Connects: March 2023
The UBC Food and Beverage Innovation Centre breaks ground on March 3, 2023, welcoming industry and alumni to the celebration.
2023 March is Nutrition Month
To mark Nutrition Month, we invited a few Land and Food Systems faculty, staff and students to give us their ideas for go-to meals, whether dessert is okay to eat, and ways they stay healthy.
Researchers call for caution on agricultural pesticides
UBC researchers call for a review of common agricultural pesticides until their impact on the ecosystem is more fully understood.
Using AI can make our food safer
Artificial intelligence can help boost safety in food production, according to a study by UBC and University of Guelph. The average cost of a food recall due to bacterial or microbial contamination is US$10 million.
Better nutrition in aquaculture targets disease reduction
Juvenile farmed fish to receive fulvic acids as a feed supplement.