July 15, 2024
Dr. Vivien Measday, Associate Professor at the Wine Research Centre, recently received funds from the NSERC Discovery Grants program to support her wine research. Her project aims to enhance competitiveness for growers in the B.C. wine industry.
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Categories: News
May 19, 2024
The potential for climate change to seriously harm B.C.’s wine sector was starkly demonstrated in January 2024 when temperatures in the all-important Okanagan grape-growing region suddenly plummeted as low as minus 29 degrees Celsius. According to Professor Dr. Simone Castellarin, the impact of the sweeping cold snap was both “striking and unprecedented.”
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Categories: ReachOut
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
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.
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Categories: ReachOut, Research
May 7, 2024
Class of 2024: Chloe Chambers Chloe Chambers (she/her/hers)Program: BSc in Applied Animal Biology How did you hear about LFS at UBC? While I was researching programs that aligned with my interests, I learned that UBC’s Applied Animal Biology Program wasn’t in Science, but in the Faculty of LFS, which I hadn’t heard of before. But […]
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Categories: Uncategorized
April 23, 2024
Risa Sargent, who heads the Plant Pollinator and Global Change lab in LFS, and master’s student Sarah Knoerr are featured in a UBC News story to discuss rising concerns about the number of common eastern bumble bees—an introduced species—being found in the wild and in research surveys of pollinators in the Lower Mainland.
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Categories: News, Research
April 11, 2024
In a first-of-its-kind partnership, UBC, Simon Fraser University (SFU) and three First Nations in so-called B.C. are applying novel approaches to measure soil processes and properties, and the downstream impacts on ecosystem health.
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Categories: News, Research
February 8, 2024
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science with…Ashley JangBSc Applied Biology 2026 | Major: Applied Animal Biology What excites you about science? What excites me about science is all the unanswered questions! Every day new hypotheses are being formulated, new research papers are published, and old ideas are disproven but we will never […]
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February 8, 2024
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science with…Emma Doyon BSc Applied Biology 2025 | Major: Applied Animal Biology (Hon) What excites you about science? It is extremely exciting that science allows me to learn more about everything in our world, from soil and animals all the way to our solar system. As a […]
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