December 4, 2024
Mia Abbas is an alum of the Food, Nutrition and Health program and through her studies, she gained insight on the importance of community, food and intersectionality – insight that Mia extends to her clients as a Mental Health Worker.
Tagged with 2024, Food Nutrition and Health
Categories: News, Profile Alumni
December 4, 2024
Dr. Anubhav Pratap-Singh and Peqish Group, Food and Hospitality Inc. are collaborating on a project to develop fat mimetics containing dietary fibers derived from chia as a low-calorie replacement for ingredients like palm oil.
Tagged with 2024, Faculty, Food Nutrition and Health
Categories: News
December 3, 2024
Jennifer Black’s project unites researchers, artists, health professionals and community members to explore innovative ways to share and evaluate research on food insecurity.
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Categories: News
December 3, 2024
Working in collaboration with the territories of Ts’msyen, Gitxsan and Coast Salish Peoples, Dr. Jean-Thomas Cornelis is seeing how ancestral soil management practices enhanced integrated ecological functions, such as safeguarding biodiversity.
Tagged with 2024, Applied Biology, Faculty
Categories: News
November 1, 2024
Milestones and News & Notes Awards and Grants Dana-Lyn Mackenzie won a UBC President’s Staff Award in the category Advancing Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence. She has a shared position with LFS, Applied Science and Forestry as Senior Manager, EDI and Indigeneity, and has been a co-lead on the Orange Shirt Day march at UBC for […]
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Categories: ReachOut
October 31, 2024
Dr. James McKendry is a new Assistant Professor in the Faculty who will use innovative tools to understand how nutrition and exercise affect our health as we age.
Tagged with 2024, Food Nutrition and Health
Categories: ReachOut
October 31, 2024
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.
Tagged with 2024, Food and Resource Economics
Categories: ReachOut, Research
October 31, 2024
Cultivating Community, Food and Land on a Regenerative Farm For Simran Panatch, food is much more than just something we feed our bodies—it is also a vessel for connection. This love of food has been a driving force in her academic and career pursuits, leading to her current role as the Managing Director of Athiana […]
Tagged with 2024, Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Categories: ReachOut
October 31, 2024
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.
Tagged with 2024, Food Nutrition and Health
Categories: ReachOut, Research