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Wine Centre Poised for Growth
Wine Centre Poised for Growth Jacques-Olivier Pesme Simone Castellarin The Wine Research Centre has expanded to Kelowna campus! The Centre is now a dual campus initiative as it sets down roots at UBC Okanagan, in the heart of B.C.’s wine region. It is led jointly by Land and Food Systems and UBC Okanagan’s Faculty of […]
Building a Resilient Food System Starts with the Soil
Building a Resilient Food System Starts with the Soil Seeing empty shelves in grocery stores last spring was a shock to many consumers, as most of us have never experienced that in our lifetime. It shone a spotlight on the vulnerabilities of our food system, and opened discussions on how we can better enforce this […]
New Faculty Profile: Risa Sargent
New Faculty Profile: Risa Sargent Risa Sargent joined the Faculty in July 2020 as an Associate Professor in the Applied Biology program. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. She has a BSc from the University of Calgary, and a MSc from Simon Fraser University, where she studied the timing of […]
New Faculty Profile: Lindsay Cuff
New Faculty Profile: Lindsay Cuff Lindsay Cuff is enjoying her return to Vancouver. “It’s like a homecoming for me. I love the smell of the forest after it rains and the salty air fills me with joy.” She joins UBC as an Assistant Professor of Teaching with a joint appointment in LFS and Forestry. She […]
New Faculty Profile: Thorsten Knipfer
New Faculty Profile: Thorsten Knipfer Thorsten Knipfer joined the Faculty’s Applied Biology program in September 2020 as an Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology. Originally from Bavaria, Germany, Knipfer completed his MSc at the University of Bayreuth, where he studied the water relations of roots in corn plants. He then received his PhD from University College […]
Sowing Seeds for Future Generations
Sowing Seeds for Future Generations Left to right: Iva Jankovic, Christina and Alan Eastwood, Rose Cameron To Alan and Christina Eastwood, sustainable living goes beyond tending their own organic land and food, to extending support to LFS students facing new hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Eastwoods created an endowment to UBC in 2015, establishing […]
Getting into the Weeds
Getting into the Weeds Jennifer Grenz (BSc Agroecology ’04, PhD Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems ‘20) wants her students take a closer look at the uninvited weeds in their gardens. “I’m encouraging students to embrace a different definition of a weed, because every plant’s worth depends on the observer’s values and context,” she […]
UBC Alum Harold Steves to Retire From Civic Politics
UBC Alum Harold Steves to Retire From Civic Politics Photo provided by Harold Steves At 83, Harold Steves (BSc Agriculture, 1963) will be retiring as Richmond’s longest-serving City Councillor. Using Twitter, Steves, who is known as ClimateChange Steves (@Harold_Steves), announced he would not seek re-election in 2022 after 50 years of service. Even though he […]
Milestones
Milestones New Dietetics Crowd Fundraiser UBC Dietetics students often need to travel to rural, remote or Indigenous communities during their practicum. To help them, the Faculty has established the Dietetics Rural and Indigenous Communities Placement Fund to support students with these additional costs. Learn more and support Dietetics students here: crowdfundraising.ubc.ca/projects/lfs-dietetics-student-support Toddler Development Researcher Wins […]