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Meghan Lok Class of 2023
Class of 2023: Meghan Lok (BSc Applied Biology) Major in Applied Animal Biology How did you hear about LFS at UBC? I actually entered UBC as a Science undergraduate intending to major in general Biology. While I knew what I did not want to do at this point, I was not provided with the environment, […]
Julia Taylor, Class of 2023
Class of 2023: Julia Taylor (BSc Global Resource Systems) How did LFS match your personal and/or professional interests? This Faculty, and my program especially, gave me the chance to develop existing interests as well as discover new ones through the course of my winding journey of exploring courses and changing my mind a million times […]
Classroom learning: Insights from teaching award recipient
Classroom learning: Insights from teaching award recipient Tony Yang, a master’s student in Human Nutrition, was awarded the Faculty’s 2023 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award to recognize his exceptional work enhancing student learning. Throughout his master’s degree, Yang supported multiple LFS undergraduate courses, including FNH 160 (Integrated Physiology for Human Nutrition I), FNH 350 (Fundamentals […]
LFS Community Connects: March 2023
Message from the Dean for LFS Community Connects: March 2023 Welcome to the first issue of spring. I’m looking forward to seeing the cherry blossoms and early flowers bloom soon. Earlier this month, interim UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Deborah Buszard and I welcomed industry partners, alumni and government guests to campus for the groundbreaking ceremony […]
2023 March is Nutrition Month
March is Nutrition Month To mark Nutrition Month, we invited a few Land and Food Systems faculty, staff and students to give us their ideas for go-to meals, whether dessert is okay to eat, and ways they stay healthy. Barbara Stefanska, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Food, Nutrition and Health Is breakfast the most important […]
Researchers call for caution on agricultural pesticides
Researchers call for caution on agricultural pesticides Feb. 2, 2023 – Common pesticides used in agriculture could be impacting organisms in unexpected ways through their ecological interactions. A recent publication by UBC researchers says regulators need to carefully review the impact of common pesticides and take steps to reduce them until their impact on the […]
Better nutrition in aquaculture targets disease reduction
Better nutrition in aquaculture targets disease reduction August 2022 – Andrea Frommel, Chair in Sustainable Aquaculture, (right) is working with industry and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on a new project to improve nutrition in farmed fish with the goal of reducing disease in the long-term. As aquaculture expands there is an increasing […]
New Frontiers Funding for COVID-19 Research
Research underway to treat patients with mild COVID-19 using a non-invasive nasal spray.