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 […]
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 […]