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
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.
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 […]
Supporting Students During COVID-19
Supporting Students During COVID-19 Some quick pivots took place in the summer as the university prepared for online teaching and learning. Gail Hammond Health and Wellness for All UBC Students In May, UBC wanted to support students coming from an unusual COVID-19-impacted end to secondary school with the creation of three online courses aimed at […]
A Message from the Dean
A Message from the Dean Rickey Yada Thank you for taking a break and browsing through the fall issue of ReachOut magazine. Like everywhere else, at UBC we are working through unusual times in COVID-19. We’ve had to investigate ways to deliver the quality teaching and research we are renowned for; it’s brought many challenges, […]
UBC Wine Centre Poised for Growth
With an expansion to the UBC Okanagan campus, the UBC Wine Research Centre Director Jacques-Olivier Pesme and Associate Director Simone Castellarin look to the future.
Assistant Professor Tamara Cohen Receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant
The grant will support Dr. Cohen’s project to develop a diet self-monitoring tool.
Bond between cow and calf grows deeper when suckling is allowed
What impacts the bond between cow and calf? New LFS research published in Scientific Reports looks at the role of suckling.
Three Faculty Members are Recipients of the John R. Evans Leaders Fund
In total, UBC is receiving $10.61M for 41 equipment and infrastructure projects.