Celebrating the Class of 2024!
To celebrate this year’s graduating class, we spoke to a few of our outstanding students. We look forward to keeping up with these students and all they accomplish – this is only the beginning of their next adventure!
Class of 2024: William Fang
Class of 2024: William Fang William Fang (he/him/his)Program: BSc in Food and Resource Economics How did you hear about LFS at UBC? I heard about LFS when I was seeking advice from some high school alumni and advisors. I was trying to immerse myself in an interdisciplinary environment, and they suggested that LFS could be […]
Class of 2024: Judith Haryanto
Class of 2024: Judith Haryanto Judith Haryanto (she/her/hers)Program: BSc in Food and Resource Economics How did you hear about LFS at UBC? It was actually by chance. I was looking into getting into the Faculty of Science with no specific major in mind but then I found out about the Faculty of Land and Food […]
Brewing Success: How to Be Bold as an Entrepreneur
Exceptional entrepreneurs stand out for their remarkable products in addition to the passion and unique perspectives they bring to their ventures. From his early days at UBC, where thoughts about a career were far away, to now running a successful business at Moving Coffee Roastery, Edmond Keung…
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.
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: 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 […]