An Emerging Voice in Career Advising
An Emerging Voice in Career Advising Spring graduation is just around the corner, and our students are preparing to launch themselves into exciting new careers. Guiding them through their journeys is Career Strategist Rob Kim, who was named one of LinkedIn’s top voices in Jobs and Careers in the United States and Canada recently. Kim’s […]
New Counsellor To Support Students
New Counsellor To Support Students Nicole Adoranti, a Canadian Certified Counsellor, is the newest addition to the LFS community. In a newly created role, she will be the Embedded Counsellor to both Land and Food Systems and Forestry, providing single session or short-term counselling, triage and referrals to students, while also promoting mental health through […]
Millet Pumpkin Porridge
This recipe was written by Xinyan Fan, a program assistant in the LFS Dietetics program. Thank you Xinyan for this lovely fall themed breakfast recipe!
New DIY Media Studio Enables UBC Library Users to Record High Quality Video and Audio Content
Our faculty’s Duncan McHugh, Digital & Instructional Media Producer has been featured by the UBC Library group. Read about the the library’s new DIY media studio and how Duncan will use the space for his course, LFS 400: Audio Storytelling.
Celebrating 20 years at UBC Farm, 10 years for CSFS
Celebrating 20 years at UBC Farm, 10 years at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems Located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hənq̓ ̓əmin̓əm-speaking x ̓ ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people, the UBC Farm continues the long xʷməθkʷəy̓əm tradition of learning and harvesting on these lands. UBC students started growing food here in the […]
News & Notes, Milestones
News & Notes Sarah Common Alumni: Creating Safe Spaces in the Downtown Eastside Sarah Common (BSc Global Resource Systems 2009) won a 2020-21 UBC Alumni Builder Award for the unique social impact of Hives for Humanity. Common, who is Executive Director and Co-Founder, is quick to point out that she is one person among many […]
New Dietetics Crowd Fundraiser
Dietetics students often travel to remote communities during their practicum. To help them, we’ve established Dietetics Rural and Indigenous Communities Placement Fund.
Supporting Students During COVID-19
Supporting Students During COVID-19 Some quick pivots took place in the summer as the university prepared for online teaching and learning. Gail Hammond Health and Wellness for All UBC Students In May, UBC wanted to support students coming from an unusual COVID-19-impacted end to secondary school with the creation of three online courses aimed at […]
Calling Agassiz Home for 25 Years
Calling Agassiz Home for 25 Years Photo by Hover Collective Since 1995, the community of Agassiz, B.C., 100 kilometers east of Vancouver, has been home to the university’s dairy cattle. Today these cattle play an important role in teaching and research, and at last count, their numbers reached approximately 500. Now called the UBC Dairy […]
News, Notes & Milestones
News & Notes Food And Beverage Research Partnerships to Expand Anubhav Pratap Singh, Minister Lana Popham & PhD student Ronit Mandal LFS will work even more closely with those in B.C.’s food industry, thanks to the creation of a Food and Beverage Innovation Professorship last fall. At a visit to UBC, Agriculture Minister Lana Popham […]