Food Science Graduate Students Win at IFT Competition
Food Science Graduate Students Win at IFT Competition Jul 14, 2015 Jinsong Feng (PhD student, supervisor: Dr. Xiaonan Lu) received 1st place in the Food Microbiology Division, Graduate Student Research Paper Oral Competition at the 2015 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) annual conference in Chicago. His technical research paper abstract is entitled, “Chemical, physical and […]
Jul 14, 2015
LFS Researchers Receive 2015 NSERC Funding
LFS Researchers Receive 2015 NSERC Funding Jul 2, 2015 Congratulations to four LFS researchers who have been awarded NSERC research grants for 2015! Simone Castellarin ($24,000/year, 5 years): Identification of key regulatory elements of fruit ripening in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) Anthony Farrell ($90,000/year, 5 years): Integrated cardiorespiratory physiology Marina von Keyserlingk ($49,000/year, 5 years): Understanding individual variability […]
Jul 02, 2015
Dietetics Alum Wins Canadian Grocer Award
Dietetics Alum Wins Canadian Grocer Award Jun 29, 2015 Congratulations to Nicole Fetterly (BSc FNH ’07) on being named one of Canadian Grocer’s Star Women of 2015! Winners were nominated by their peers and chosen by the editors, and have made a noticeable impact on the grocery industry. From the announcement: A registered dietitian, Nicole […]
Jun 29, 2015
Q & A with Shannon Lambie, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm
Q & A with Shannon Lambie, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm Jun 29, 2015 LFS Communications Assistant Jennifer Wu recently sat down for a question and answer session with Shannon Lambie, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm. What do you find most special about the UBC Farm? The […]
President Gupta Visits the Dairy Education and Research Centre
President Gupta Visits the Dairy Education and Research Centre Jun 22, 2015 The UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre receives about 3,000 visitors each year, but on June 18, 2015, a special visitor arrived for a tour. UBC President Arvind Gupta made a trip to Agassiz to see the Dairy Centre’s teaching and research facilities. […]
Jun 22, 2015
UBC Dairy Centre named 2015 Dairy Farm Sustainability Award Finalist
UBC Dairy Centre named 2015 Dairy Farm Sustainability Award Finalist Jun 15, 2015 Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is proud to announce Perryhill Farm’s Dwayne and Becky Perry (New Brunswick), Ferme Bois Mou’s Mario Lefebvre and Denise Joyal (Quebec), as well as UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre’s management (British Columbia) as finalists of this […]
Jun 15, 2015
LFS Alumna One of 2015 Trudeau Foundation Scholars
LFS Alumna One of 2015 Trudeau Foundation Scholars Jun 12, 2015 Congratulations to alumna Anelyse Weiler (BSc GRS ’11) who is one of 16 recipients of the Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship. The award recognizes exceptional Canadian students who have distinguished themselves through academic excellence, civic engagement, and a commitment to reaching beyond academic circles. Currently a doctoral […]
Jun 12, 2015
PhD Candidate Named Member of the Month by Cdn. Nutrition Society
PhD Candidate Named Member of the Month by Cdn. Nutrition Society Jun 4, 2015 Congratulations to PhD Human Nutrition Candidate, Kyly Whitfield, who is the featured Student Member of the Month for June. The CNS-SCN Student Network recognizes outstanding CNS-SCN member trainees from coast to coast. In the past year Kyly has proven to be one […]
Jun 04, 2015
Video: B.C. expertise helps feed struggling population in Cambodia
Video: B.C. expertise helps feed struggling population in Cambodia May 31, 2015 From Global BC: UBC is helping Cambodians set up fish farms to increase protein in their diets. Linda Aylesworth reports. Can’t see the video? View it on the Global BC website.
May 31, 2015
Spring 2015 PhD Graduates
Spring 2015 PhD Graduates May 29, 2015 Three LFS students received their doctorates at the May 22 graduation ceremony. Congratulations to Drs Isabelle Lacroix (Food Science), Jun-Hyung Tak (Plant Science), and Gosia Zobel (Applied Animal Biology). A copy of their doctoral dissertations are available through UBC’s open-access repository, cIRcle: Isabelle M.E. Lacroix: Dietary proteins as precursors of […]
May 29, 2015
Fish farm project helps Cambodian women care for families, learn business skills
Fish farm project helps Cambodian women care for families, learn business skills May 29, 2015 Fish on Farms, an international food security project that helps rural women in Cambodia establish home aquaculture and food gardens, will now help them become entrepreneurs, thanks to more than $1 million in funding from the Canadian International Food Security […]
Global Food Ethics Project
Global Food Ethics Project May 26, 2015 Professor David Fraser is serving as an advisor on the Global Food Ethics Project, a project coordinated by Johns Hopkins University aimed at working through conflicting visions of what it means to feed the world ethically and find a concrete path forward even in the absence of consensus […]
May 26, 2015
Global Resource Systems Alumna Receives Gates-Cambridge Scholarship
Global Resource Systems Alumna Receives Gates-Cambridge Scholarship May 11, 2015 Congratulations to Jodi Gustafson on receiving a Gates Cambridge Scholarship! Jodi, an alumna of our Global Resource Systems program, is one of three Canadian students – and the only UBC student – selected among 54 Gates Cambridge Scholars who will begin their postgraduate studies at the […]
May 11, 2015
Food & Resource Economics Student to Speak at Skoll World Forum
Food & Resource Economics Student to Speak at Skoll World Forum May 5, 2015 Congratulations to Food and Resource Economics Masters student and MasterCard Foundation scholar Isaac Jonas, who was selected as a delegate for the Skoll World Forum Young Leaders Initiative at Oxford University in April. The annual Skoll World Forum focuses on exchanging ideas […]
May 05, 2015
LFS Centennial Session | Genetics vs Food: Are we truly what we eat?
LFS Centennial Session | Genetics vs Food: Are we truly what we eat? May 4, 2015 Part of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems Centennial Dialogues, Critical Issues in Land and Food Systems series On April 29, Alumni UBC, in partnership with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and the Heart & Stroke […]
May 04, 2015
Plant Science Alum Receives Innovation Award from IAF
Plant Science Alum Receives Innovation Award from IAF May 1, 2015 The Investment Agriculture Foundation of B.C. (IAF) has awarded the 2015 Award of Excellence for Innovation to Dr. Saber Miresmailli, founder and CEO of Ecoation Innovative Solutions (EIS), for the development of a wireless crop health monitoring system that will prevent crop losses and […]
May 01, 2015
In Memoriam: Gary Rolston (BSc Ag. Economics ’81)
In Memoriam: Gary Rolston (BSc Ag. Economics ’81) April 29, 2015 Gary D. Rolston was born September 2, 1956 in Oliver, B.C. The third of twelve children, Gary was a farm boy through and through. He carried his passion for agriculture into his professional life, graduating from UBC with a BSc in Agricultural Economics in […]
Apr 29, 2015
Susan Barr Receives 2015 Earle Willard McHenry Award
Susan Barr Receives 2015 Earle Willard McHenry Award April 28, 2015 Congratulations to Professor Susan Barr, who has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Earle Willard McHenry Award for Distinguished Service in Nutrition. The award, presented by the Canadian Nutrition Society, is given annually in recognition of distinguished service in the field of nutrition […]
Apr 28, 2015
Q & A with Kyly Whitfield, PhD Candidate in Human Nutrition
Q & A with Kyly Whitfield, PhD Candidate in Human Nutrition April 24, 2015 Kyly Whitfield is a PhD Candidate in UBC’s Human Nutrition program. Her current research combines food science and nutrition as she tests the efficacy of thiamin-fortified fish sauce to combat infantile beriberi in Prey Veng, Cambodia. (Watch Kyly present her 3-Minute-Thesis […]
Apr 24, 2015
Elevated toxic metals at community garden site raise concerns
Elevated toxic metals at community garden site raise concerns April 23, 2015 Elevated levels of toxic metals at a Vancouver community garden site raise questions about the city’s approach to promoting urban agriculture. In research outlined in the Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, lead author Gladys Oka, an Masters student in our soil science […]
Apr 23, 2015