A Community Partnership Aiming to Let No Child Go Hungry
Jennifer Black A Community Partnership Aiming to Let No Child Go Hungry Healthy eating and academic success go hand-in-hand, and yet Canada falls behind other industrialized countries in not having a national school-based meal program. The New Westminster School District is looking to lead the way to change, by starting its Fuel Up! School Lunch […]
Jennifer Black Selected as a Wall Scholar by the Peter Wall Institute for 2020-2021
Wall Scholars are chosen among leading UBC researchers from all academic disciplines, with the objective of creating a dynamic and diverse intellectual community at the Institute.
Alexandra Protopopova
NSERC/BC SPCA Industrial Research Chair in Animal Welfare @dr_prot
Natural biodiversity protects rural farmers’ incomes from tropical weather shocks
The study found that farmers in areas with greater biodiversity took less of an income hit from droughts than their peers who farmed amid less biodiversity.
New Frontiers research funds to improve plant proteins, to study environmental impacts of urban migration
Two scientists funded for innovative projects.
Thinking small in the face of climate change
Juli Carrillo and Cara Haney are looking to some of Earth’s smallest organisms to help plants adapt to rising carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels.