Dean featured on World Food Day podcast
Listen to a new World Food Day podcast, featuring Dean Rickey Yada who discusses the importance of the UN Sustainable Development Goals globally and here at UBC.
Message from the Dean for LFS Community Connects: September 2022
The start of this new academic year signals some exciting news for our Faculty and UBC.
Sessional Lecturer / Land and Food Systems (LFS 252)
Sessional Lecturer / Land and Food Systems (LFS 252) Posted on August 9, 2022 Job Summary A Sessional Lecturer position is available with UBC’s Faculty of Land & Food Systems from January 1 to April 30, 2023. The candidate will be expected to teach LFS 252 Land, Food, and Community: Quantitative Data Analysis (3 credits). […]
Sessional Lecturer (Term) Positions
Sessional Lecturer (Term) Positions Posted on August 4, 2022 UBC Land and Food Systems is accepting applications for the confirmed, scheduled courses listed below. All courses available to Sessional Lecturers are listed, but please note that courses may have returning Sessional Lecturers, Adjunct Professors, or Clinical Faculty. Official UBC course descriptions can be found at: […]
Better nutrition in aquaculture targets disease reduction
Juvenile farmed fish to receive fulvic acids as a feed supplement.
New Frontiers Funding for COVID-19 Research
Research underway to treat patients with mild COVID-19 using a non-invasive nasal spray.
Sessional Lecturer (Business Concepts in Aquaculture)
Sessional Lecturer (Business Concepts in Aquaculture) Posted on July 22, 2022 The Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada is seeking applications for a Sessional Lecturer position, from September 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. Applicants must have a Master Degree or PhD in a related field, be […]
Funding for Indigenous food systems research
A team of researchers focused on revitalizing Indigenous food systems and promoting Indigenous food sovereignty have received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
New Faculty Profile: Tianxi Yang
New Faculty Profile: Tianxi Yang Tianxi Yang joined the Faculty’s Food, Nutrition and Health program in February 2022 as an Assistant Professor. She is a food and analytical scientist with a unique combination of research experience that spans academic, industry and government. Yang received her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and conducted her […]
New Faculty Profile: Jennifer Grenz
New Faculty Profile: Jennifer Grenz In January 2022, Assistant Professor Jennifer Grenz was cross-appointed in the faculties of Forestry and Land and Food Systems. Well-known in LFS for her popular weed science class, she completed her PhD in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Carol McAusland. She […]