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2024

Serving Students and the Community as Dean

May 17, 2024

Dean Rickey Yada reflects on the relationships, communities, and lasting changes he cultivated at LFS.

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Categories: ReachOut

New Research Centre Aims to Tackle Food Insecurity

May 17, 2024

The concept of food security was one of the main reasons Dr. Anubhav Pratap-Singh became a scientist. That original inspiration is about to come to full fruition in Dr. Pratap-Singh’s latest role as Director of UBC’s highly anticipated new Food and Beverage Innovation Centre (FBIC).

Tagged with 2024, Food and Beverage Innovation Centre, Food Science
Categories: ReachOut

New Faculty Profile: Leluo Guan

May 17, 2024

Dr. Leluo Guan joins the Faculty as a Professor in the Applied Biology Program and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Animal Functional Genomics and Microbiome.

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Categories: ReachOut

Solutions to Supply Chain Challenges

May 17, 2024

Social media during the pandemic broadcast countless images of empty grocery store shelves, often fuelling panic buying among shoppers. But according to Dr. James Vercammen, supply systems held up well throughout this uniquely demanding time.

Tagged with 2024, Food and Resource Economics
Categories: ReachOut, Research

New Faculty Profile: Dr. Michael Zulyniak

May 17, 2024

Dr. Michael Zulyniak’s research is focused on how diet, metabolism and genetics integrate to affect health and disease risk across populations.

Tagged with 2024, Faculty, Food Nutrition and Health
Categories: ReachOut

Studying Pollinators on the Frontlines of Resiliency

May 17, 2024

For Associate Professor Risa Sargent, lead researcher in the Plant Pollinator and Global Change Lab (PPGC), many of the world’s smallest and most vulnerable critters are on the frontlines of some of our biggest and most pressing resiliency challenges.

Tagged with 2024, Applied Biology
Categories: ReachOut, Research

Digging Deep on Resiliency Challenges

May 17, 2024

Assistant Professor Dr. Jean-Thomas Cornelis spends a lot of time getting his hands dirty. But when your research focuses on understanding the intricate micro-scale soil processes that underpin macrosized ecosystems, grubby fingernails at the end of the day are a standard occupational hazard.

Tagged with 2024, Indigenous, Soil Science
Categories: ReachOut, Research

Sowing the Seeds for Resilient Production Systems

May 17, 2024

While Dr. Andrew Riseman takes a lengthy view of the research topics he tackles at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm (CSFS), many of the real world challenges in his field are arising more often and becoming more dramatic.

Tagged with 2024, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, Plant Science
Categories: ReachOut, Research

Building Resilience: The UBC Farm’s Strategic Plan to Transform Food Systems

May 17, 2024

In the face of multiple crises converging on the way we grow, distribute and eat food, the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) at the UBC Farm is responding with a new plan to facilitate change.

Tagged with 2024, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, UBC Farm
Categories: ReachOut

Drought Solutions for Producers Start Small

May 17, 2024

Understanding and addressing agriculture’s biggest climate change challenges starts at the microscopic level for plant physiologist Dr. Thorsten Knipfer.

Tagged with 2024, Plant Science
Categories: ReachOut, Research

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