Learning to Coexist with Urban Wildlife
Feeding and taking pictures of wildlife can be extremely harmful for both animals and humans. Assistant Professor Kristen Walker shares how important it is to coexist with the urban wildlife.
It Takes a Community to Motivate Change
It Takes a Community to Motivate Change Community partnerships make a world of difference for students. When three students in FNH 473 (Applied Public Health Nutrition) were selecting a project evaluating food and nutrition programs and how social factors impact health in communities, they chose one focused on Indigenous food programs. As none of the […]
How Can Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change
How Can Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? This summer saw unprecedented climate events in regions around the world. Canada set an all-time record high temperature when Lytton, B.C., broke the heat record for three consecutive days in June, peaking at 49.6° C. What does this mean for agriculture? We asked some LFS faculty members to […]
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigeneity in LFS
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigeneity in LFS On September 30, LFS joined three other STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) faculties in an Intergenerational March for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. It was a solemn day of learning and introspection, as well as a visual demonstration of the faculty’s commitment towards equity, diversity, […]
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 for. […]
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 many […]
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 pedologist, […]
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 food […]
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 the […]