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Alejandro Rojas to Receive CAFS Excellence in Food Studies Award
Alejandro Rojas to Receive CAFS Excellence in Food Studies Award April 4, 2015 Associate Professor Alejandro Rojas (Principal Investigator, Think&EatGreen@School Project) will be this year’s recipient of the Canadian Association for Food Studies Excellence in Food Studies Award. The awards ceremony will be held during the CAFS conference in Ottawa, Ontario on the evening of June 2nd, 2015. Congratulations, […]
Human Nutrition PhD Places First in Nutrition Poster Competition
Human Nutrition PhD Places First in Nutrition Poster Competition Mar 31, 2015 Congratulations to PhD candidate Crystal Karakochuk (Supervisor: Tim Green) who tied for First Place in the Global Nutrition Council Emerging Leaders in Nutritional Science Poster Competition, presented by the American Society for Nutrition. Crystal received the award in Boston last night as part of the Experimental Biology conference, an annual […]
Kyly Whitfield (Human Nutrition) Places 2nd at UBC 3MT
Kyly Whitfield (Human Nutrition) Places 2nd at UBC 3MT Mar 16, 2015 Kyly Whitfield, a PhD Candidate in Human Nutrition under the supervision of Dr. Tim Green, placed 2nd in the UBC finals of the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition that assists current graduate students with fostering effective […]
Results: 2015 LFS Graduate Student Conference
Results: 2015 LFS Graduate Student Conference Mar 10, 2015 The 2015 LFS Graduate Student Conference was held on March 5 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC-Vancouver. Over 35 graduate and senior undergraduate students presented their research to an audience of ~100 students, faculty, staff, and guests. Congratulations to all of our presenters! […]
UBC expert on cooking oils and the coconut oil craze
UBC expert on cooking oils and the coconut oil craze Mar 9, 2015 By Corey Allen, UBC News Coconut oil sales are on the rise. Sainsbury’s in the United Kingdom reports coconut oil sales are up 442 per cent over 2013. The popularity of coconut oil as a multi-purpose oil, used both as a beauty […]
UBC Graduate Course Highlights the Importance of Rainwater Management
UBC Graduate Course Highlights the Importance of Rainwater Management Mar 15, 2015 As anyone living on BC’s coastal climate will tell you, we get a lot of rain. So it’s not surprising that rainwater management is extremely important in order to avoid flooding, increased erosion and high concentrations of pollutants in our waterways. With those […]
Soil science alumna turns ideas into action with a community grant
Soil science alumna turns ideas into action with a community grant Feb 26, 2015 We all know the feeling – the energizing spark of a great idea. Fuelled by positivity and the best intentions, your mind races through all the awesome things you can do. That heady feeling goes on for awhile, but inevitably you hit a wall – “how am […]
Public Health and Urban Nutrition Research Group awarded CIHR grant to work with Vancouver’s Food Banks
Public Health and Urban Nutrition Research Group awarded CIHR grant to work with Vancouver’s Food Banks Feb 19, 2015 In February 2015, a research team lead by Jennifer Black was awarded $200,000 by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Population Health Intervention Research funding program for a project titled: “Evaluating the Impact of the Greater […]
In Memoriam: Hugh Daubeny
In Memoriam: Hugh Daubeny Feb 12, 2015 Alumnus Hugh Daubeny (BSc Ag ’53, MSc Ag ’55) passed away on January 2, 2015. After graduating from UBC, Hugh spent almost 40 years with Agriculture Canada in Agassiz, Vancouver, and Abbotsford, developing raspberry and strawberry cultivars; most notable are the Totem Strawberry and the Tulameen Raspberry, which […]
Antibiotic-resistant E. coli detected on Vancouver farmers’ market produce
Antibiotic-resistant E. coli detected on Vancouver farmers’ market produce Feb 4, 2015 UBC researchers have detected antibiotic-resistant E. coli bacteria on lettuce from several Vancouver farmers’ markets. Researchers collected samples from 14 vendors at five different, unidentified markets in Vancouver, and tested them for a range of different bacteria. Coliform bacteria was detected in 72 […]