Parmjit Bains: UBC Alumni Award of Distinction
To build a successful business from the ground up takes fortitude to face challenges and a sharp instinct to see an opportunity on the horizon and act on it – something Parm Bains (BSc Agr 1979) has done for the last 34 years in the Fraser Valley.
Photo credit: Edward Chang from V. Saran Photo.
Shaping Policy Around Animal Welfare
Meet Erin Ryan!
Erin is an alumna of the Applied Animal Biology program and currently works for Humane Society International Canada.
Developing Economic Policy at the University of Indonesia
Chang Che earned his Bachelor of Science in Food and Resource Economics in 2024. His goal while in the program was to work in public policy. In 2023, he travelled to Indonesia with a small cohort of UBC students to take part in Go Global’s LFS 303: International Field Studies in Policy Analysis for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Milestones and News & Notes
Milestones and News & Notes Milestones Four faculty members recently received NSERC Discovery research grants to support their long-term projects in the natural sciences and engineering. These grants also recognize the opportunity for students to receive training in innovative projects. These faculty members were funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans […]
New faculty profile: Karen Taylor
New faculty profile: Karen Taylor Karen Taylor is on a mission to empower students with essential financial literacy skills.She’s teaching business and economics in five different LFS classes, reaching those in first-year all the way to master’s-level professional programs. “When I was teaching business and economics principles, many students started asking me about personal financial […]
New Faculty Profile: Vassilis Kontogiorgos
New Faculty Profile: Vassilis Kontogiorgos Dr. Vassilis Kontogiorgos joins the Faculty as an Associate Professor in Food Chemistry. Dr. Kontogiorgos’ research focuses on the physical chemistry of carbohydrates and their specific ability to provide texture and stability to food products. He completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and […]
New Faculty Profile: Jonathan Proctor
New Faculty Profile: Jonathan Proctor With a childhood spent foraging for blueberries and cooking with family in Pennsylvania, it was important for Dr. Jonathan Proctor to design a career that centred around food. Combining his interests in agriculture and economics has led him to study the intersection of our global food and climate systems. Dr. […]
New Faculty Profile: Joséphine Gantois
New Faculty Profile: Joséphine Gantois Dr. Joséphine Gantois combines economics and ecology with tools like machine learning and interviews to study the impact of human actions on biodiversity. “I started specializing in environmental economics as I became more aware of ongoing environmental issues, and it seemed essential to me to bring natural sciences into the […]
A Fast Read on Plastics in Our Food and Water
A new portable tool can give you a precise reading on how much plastic could be seeping from your plastic coffee cup and into your body.