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Global Food Ethics Project
Global Food Ethics Project May 26, 2015 Professor David Fraser is serving as an advisor on the Global Food Ethics Project, a project coordinated by Johns Hopkins University aimed at working through conflicting visions of what it means to feed the world ethically and find a concrete path forward even in the absence of consensus […]
Global Resource Systems Alumna Receives Gates-Cambridge Scholarship
Global Resource Systems Alumna Receives Gates-Cambridge Scholarship May 11, 2015 Congratulations to Jodi Gustafson on receiving a Gates Cambridge Scholarship! Jodi, an alumna of our Global Resource Systems program, is one of three Canadian students – and the only UBC student – selected among 54 Gates Cambridge Scholars who will begin their postgraduate studies at the […]
Food & Resource Economics Student to Speak at Skoll World Forum
Food & Resource Economics Student to Speak at Skoll World Forum May 5, 2015 Congratulations to Food and Resource Economics Masters student and MasterCard Foundation scholar Isaac Jonas, who was selected as a delegate for the Skoll World Forum Young Leaders Initiative at Oxford University in April. The annual Skoll World Forum focuses on exchanging ideas […]
LFS Centennial Session | Genetics vs Food: Are we truly what we eat?
LFS Centennial Session | Genetics vs Food: Are we truly what we eat? May 4, 2015 Part of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems Centennial Dialogues, Critical Issues in Land and Food Systems series On April 29, Alumni UBC, in partnership with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and the Heart & Stroke […]
Plant Science Alum Receives Innovation Award from IAF
Plant Science Alum Receives Innovation Award from IAF May 1, 2015 The Investment Agriculture Foundation of B.C. (IAF) has awarded the 2015 Award of Excellence for Innovation to Dr. Saber Miresmailli, founder and CEO of Ecoation Innovative Solutions (EIS), for the development of a wireless crop health monitoring system that will prevent crop losses and […]
In Memoriam: Gary Rolston (BSc Ag. Economics ’81)
In Memoriam: Gary Rolston (BSc Ag. Economics ’81) April 29, 2015 Gary D. Rolston was born September 2, 1956 in Oliver, B.C. The third of twelve children, Gary was a farm boy through and through. He carried his passion for agriculture into his professional life, graduating from UBC with a BSc in Agricultural Economics in […]
Susan Barr Receives 2015 Earle Willard McHenry Award
Susan Barr Receives 2015 Earle Willard McHenry Award April 28, 2015 Congratulations to Professor Susan Barr, who has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Earle Willard McHenry Award for Distinguished Service in Nutrition. The award, presented by the Canadian Nutrition Society, is given annually in recognition of distinguished service in the field of nutrition […]
Q & A with Kyly Whitfield, PhD Candidate in Human Nutrition
Q & A with Kyly Whitfield, PhD Candidate in Human Nutrition April 24, 2015 Kyly Whitfield is a PhD Candidate in UBC’s Human Nutrition program. Her current research combines food science and nutrition as she tests the efficacy of thiamin-fortified fish sauce to combat infantile beriberi in Prey Veng, Cambodia. (Watch Kyly present her 3-Minute-Thesis […]
Elevated toxic metals at community garden site raise concerns
Elevated toxic metals at community garden site raise concerns April 23, 2015 Elevated levels of toxic metals at a Vancouver community garden site raise questions about the city’s approach to promoting urban agriculture. In research outlined in the Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, lead author Gladys Oka, an Masters student in our soil science […]
Toasting Five Successful Years of the Think & Eat Green @ School Project
Toasting Five Successful Years of the Think & Eat Green @ School Project April 2, 2015 The Think & Eat Green at School Project is a research partnership led by the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). It is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research […]