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Deans Message for LFS Community Connects: July 2021

As UBC campus attractions are open this summer, I invite those of you in the Lower Mainland – and those of you who may in town this summer – to come by and visit!

GradUpdate – In this issue, Syllabus and Course Design with Inclusion in Mind, Abstract Writing, Exploring Zoom, Visualization with R, DIY Media Series, and more!

GradUpdate In this issue, Syllabus and Course Design with Inclusion in Mind, Abstract Writing, Exploring Zoom, Visualization with R, DIY Media Series, and more! Events and Opportunities The following highlights some upcoming events. Please find more on community.grad.ubc.ca and grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-development ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND SUCCESS Final Thesis Formatting Workshop Recording available until Aug 31 Access here Equity and inclusion in […]

MFRE News Post: A Career Path as a Research Analyst

Beyond MFRE: Nick Gemperle, Ipsos Beyond MFRE is a series of interviews focusing on alumni and their life after our master’s degree. This week we put a spotlight on Nick Gemperle, an MFRE alumn currently employed as a Research Analyst with Ipsos, a world-renowned market research firm. Passionate about issues related to sustainable agriculture and […]

Deans Message for LFS Community Connects: March 2021

Dean Rickey Yada shares the Faculty’s new Action Plan with the community.

Dean’s Message for LFS Community Connects: October 2020

Dean’s Message for LFS Community Connects: October 2020 Hello and welcome to fall! As this is the month to give thanks, I wanted to write about some of the things for which I am grateful. To start, our LFS Mentorship program has taken off this year. We’ve hit a record number of mentors (118) who […]

Dean’s Message for LFS Community Connects: August 2020

Dean Rickey Yada shares how the Faculty is preparing for a virtual Winter term.

Learning through the grapevine

Every summer, students from UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan ditch their classrooms to come together at various B.C. vineyards in an one-of-a-kind field course.

Afton Halloran

An exchange program in my fourth year introduced me to entomophagy, and I continued to travel and study how local cultures produce and consume insects.