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An Emerging Voice in Career Advising
An Emerging Voice in Career Advising Spring graduation is just around the corner, and our students are preparing to launch themselves into exciting new careers. Guiding them through their journeys is Career Strategist Rob Kim, who was named one of LinkedIn’s top voices in Jobs and Careers in the United States and Canada recently. Kim’s […]
Detecting Insects is Getting High-Tech on UBC Campus
Detecting Insects is Getting High-Tech on UBC Campus A new Campus as a Living Laboratory project will enable UBC researchers to monitor insects in real-time, on a scale never done before. “This project promises to help us understand insect biodiversity, which we know is both crucial to ecosystems, and affected by human activities,” says Juli […]
New Faculty Profile: Tianxi Yang
New Faculty Profile: Tianxi Yang Tianxi Yang joined the Faculty’s Food, Nutrition and Health program in February 2022 as an Assistant Professor. She is a food and analytical scientist with a unique combination of research experience that spans academic, industry and government. Yang received her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and conducted her […]
New Faculty Profile: Jennifer Grenz
New Faculty Profile: Jennifer Grenz In January 2022, Assistant Professor Jennifer Grenz was cross-appointed in the faculties of Forestry and Land and Food Systems. Well-known in LFS for her popular weed science class, she completed her PhD in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Carol McAusland. She […]
Breeding Better Crops
Breeding Better Crops Vincent Fetterley has loved the outdoors for as long as he can remember. Now an MSc student in Plant Science, Fetterley recalls growing up with huge, elaborate gardens that his parents and grandparents maintained in Montreal. “I remember all summer long, I would just chill in the garden, eat food right off […]
Expanding the Innovation Network in Dairy
Expanding the Innovation Network in Dairy In her new position with BC Dairy Association, Emma Strazhnik (BSc Applied Animal Biology Hon. ’13) is dedicated to supporting dairy producers improve their climate footprint. Strazhnik is Stakeholder and Innovation Manager, a role that BC Dairy created last autumn to focus on research innovation and bringing producers into […]
Shaping Protein for New Applications
Shaping Protein for New Applications Transforming protein has been in the spotlight in the last decade as plant-based protein products grow in popularity. Current commercial processes rely on extruded plant protein to make meat substitutes, but Assistant Professor Derek Dee’sresearch focuses on changing protein on a nanomolecular level. Funded by a New Frontiers Grant and […]
Message from the Dean
Message from the Dean Welcome to spring! I’m feeling optimistic as we start turning a chapter on COVID-19 and we gradually return to in-person meetings again. I’ve had the opportunity to visit some cutting-edge food processors over the past few months; it’s been exciting to see their technology, and learn how they are contributing to […]
New Faculty Profile: Anna Brisco
New Faculty Profile: Anna Brisco, Lecturer in Dietetics Anna Brisco (they/them) has worked in the food system right across Canada, from being a culinary chef in Halifax to a food bank policy dietitian in Vancouver. They bring this experience to UBC’s new Master of Nutrition and Dietetics (MND) professional program, which launches this fall, as […]
News & Notes, Milestones
News & Notes Micro-courses: Professional Development for the Food Industry LFS’s online Micro-certificate in Food Safety Management is a new program to help sharpen professional skills. For those already working in food and beverage production, it’s an excellent way to gain skills needed in quality assurance. For those new to the industry, it provides a […]