Undergraduate and graduate LFS students study, research and address crucial real-world questions. You’ll dive deeply into issues of sustainability, climate change, resource management and more, understanding their interdisciplinary connections while also pioneering new answers to pressing global challenges.
Research Stories
Researching For Positive Change
Growing up in small-town Minnesota might seem like an unlikely backstory for a future of immersive fieldwork in Mexico, Uganda and beyond. But for applied economist Erin Litzow (PhD ISLFS 2024)—a recently appointed University of Texas at Dallas Assistant Professor of Sustainability—one factor focused her young mind on thinking deeply about the world far away from her Midwestern home.
Insect-Inspired Udon Noodles
Three students in the Food, Nutrition and Health program designed a new product that would hit all three marks, plus one more—they wanted a new product that would also speak to their Asian heritage.
Major New Study Study Targets Methane Emissions
The project, a multidisciplinary collaboration between major institutions and researchers throughout Canada, aims to understand the complexities of methane-generating processes in the rumen microbiome of beef and dairy cattle—while also developing novel technologies and management strategies to make these processes as efficient as possible at inhibiting emissions.
News Stories
Cascades of Change
A new program for UBC faculty and staff offers self-paced learning on topics related to Indigeneity and, more broadly, anti-oppression. The Cascades of Change program supports professional development while formally recognizing people for where they are in their commitment to EDI.I training.
Advancing Innovation and Sustainability in Healthcare Food Services
Penny Pang shares some highlights of her job as a Project Manager with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH).
$7-million donation from Dan On Foundation seeds the future of food innovation at UBC
A Vietnamese refugee who moved to Canada to escape famine and conflict is now funding a transformative centre for food innovation at the University of British Columbia that will help strengthen B.C.’s food industry for generations to come.