From Backyards to City Parks: Preserving Green Space
From Backyards to City Parks: Preserving Green Space Camil Dumont (MSc Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems 2017) is well into his first term as Park Board Commissioner for the City of Vancouver, a city that prides itself on its more 200 beaches and parks, including the historic Stanley Park. It is here that […]
A Bold Voice for Change
A Bold Voice for Change Christine Boyle (BSc Global Resource Systems 2007), a first time Councillor for the City of Vancouver, isn’tafraid to take on big issues. When announcing her decision to run, she decided to focus her campaign on tackling the growing wealth gap, housing affordability, and on strengthening community engagement. Boyle has been […]
Learning Tools for Just Food
Learning Tools for Just Food Joyce Liao and Meryn Corkery worked on a community project in LFS 350 (Land, Food, and Community II) involving equity issues in the food system and both felt a strong desire to dig deeper. So together with PhD candidate Colin Dring, theyproposed an ambitious project to build tools that everyone […]
A Message from the Dean
A Message from the Dean There are changemakers among us. Those who are not satisfied with the status quo and are motivated to take action for the greater good. In this issue of ReachOut we talk to a few of those changemakers in the Land and Food Systems community who are making a difference. Two […]
The Science of Storytelling
The Science of Storytelling LFS 400 (Audio Storytelling) is not your typical science course. In fact, course instructors Duncan McHugh, Digital & Instructional Media Producer in the Learning Centre, and Will Valley, an Instructor in the Faculty, encourage students from all disciplines to enroll. “LFS 400 is a science communications course, disguised as a podcasting […]
Blue & Gold Campaign for Students
Blue & Gold Campaign for Students: Supporting Local and Global Students UBC launched the Blue & Gold Campaign for Students with the goal of raising $100 million over three years to support students. Those who give to the Blue & Gold Campaign provide promising students access to a life-changing education — and perhaps more importantly […]
Milestones
Milestones In this section: Awards Hires Retirements Awards Maja Krzic Receives Award for Excellence in Open Education Associate Professor Maja Krzic has been leading a transformation in online soil science education. She won an Award for Excellence for establishing the Virtual Soil Science Learning Resources (VSSLR) group which involves 30 Canadian soil scientists, media developers, […]
Kelleen Wiseman to Lead Master of Food and Resource Economics Program
Kelleen Wiseman to Lead Master of Food and Resource Economics Program Kelleen Wiseman is the newly appointed Academic Director and Manager of the Master of Food and Resource Economics (MFRE) program. With over 15 years of teaching and mentorship experience with LFS and other UBC faculties, and recognition in 2018 through a UBC Killam Teaching […]
Connecting Communities Through the Culture of the Hive
Connecting Communities Through the Culture of the Hive Sarah Common (BSc Global Resource Systems 2009) is the co-founder of Hives for Humanity, a non-profit society, based in Vancouver (www.hivesforhumanity.com). The organization works to connect people to nature, their community and to themselves, through apiculture (more commonly known as beekeeping). What drew you to the Global […]
Applied Biology Undergrad Makes the Case for Grooming Brushes in Barns
Applied Biology Undergrad Makes the Case for Grooming Brushes in Barns That urge you get to scratch an itch? It turns out dairy cows have it too. At the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre in Agassiz, B.C. (dairycentre.landfood.ubc.ca), Emilie McConnachie (BSc Applied Biology 2018), designed and conducted a study that investigated dairy cows’ motivation […]