President Gupta Visits the Dairy Education and Research Centre
President Gupta Visits the Dairy Education and Research Centre Jun 22, 2015 The UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre receives about 3,000 visitors each year, but on June 18, 2015, a special visitor arrived for a tour. UBC President Arvind Gupta made a trip to Agassiz to see the Dairy Centre’s teaching and research facilities. […]
UBC Dairy Centre named 2015 Dairy Farm Sustainability Award Finalist
UBC Dairy Centre named 2015 Dairy Farm Sustainability Award Finalist Jun 15, 2015 Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is proud to announce Perryhill Farm’s Dwayne and Becky Perry (New Brunswick), Ferme Bois Mou’s Mario Lefebvre and Denise Joyal (Quebec), as well as UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre’s management (British Columbia) as finalists of this […]
LFS Alumna One of 2015 Trudeau Foundation Scholars
LFS Alumna One of 2015 Trudeau Foundation Scholars Jun 12, 2015 Congratulations to alumna Anelyse Weiler (BSc GRS ’11) who is one of 16 recipients of the Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship. The award recognizes exceptional Canadian students who have distinguished themselves through academic excellence, civic engagement, and a commitment to reaching beyond academic circles. Currently a doctoral […]
PhD Candidate Named Member of the Month by Cdn. Nutrition Society
PhD Candidate Named Member of the Month by Cdn. Nutrition Society Jun 4, 2015 Congratulations to PhD Human Nutrition Candidate, Kyly Whitfield, who is the featured Student Member of the Month for June. The CNS-SCN Student Network recognizes outstanding CNS-SCN member trainees from coast to coast. In the past year Kyly has proven to be one […]
Video: B.C. expertise helps feed struggling population in Cambodia
Video: B.C. expertise helps feed struggling population in Cambodia May 31, 2015 From Global BC: UBC is helping Cambodians set up fish farms to increase protein in their diets. Linda Aylesworth reports. Can’t see the video? View it on the Global BC website.
Spring 2015 PhD Graduates
Spring 2015 PhD Graduates May 29, 2015 Three LFS students received their doctorates at the May 22 graduation ceremony. Congratulations to Drs Isabelle Lacroix (Food Science), Jun-Hyung Tak (Plant Science), and Gosia Zobel (Applied Animal Biology). A copy of their doctoral dissertations are available through UBC’s open-access repository, cIRcle: Isabelle M.E. Lacroix: Dietary proteins as precursors of […]
Fish farm project helps Cambodian women care for families, learn business skills
Fish farm project helps Cambodian women care for families, learn business skills May 29, 2015 Fish on Farms, an international food security project that helps rural women in Cambodia establish home aquaculture and food gardens, will now help them become entrepreneurs, thanks to more than $1 million in funding from the Canadian International Food Security […]
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 […]