Sessional Lecturer / Land and Food Systems (LFS 252)
Sessional Lecturer / Land and Food Systems (LFS 252) Posted on August 9, 2022 Job Summary A Sessional Lecturer position is available with UBC’s Faculty of Land & Food Systems from January 1 to April 30, 2023. The candidate will be expected to teach LFS 252 Land, Food, and Community: Quantitative Data Analysis (3 credits). […]
Sessional Lecturer (Term) Positions
Sessional Lecturer (Term) Positions Posted on August 4, 2022 UBC Land and Food Systems is accepting applications for the confirmed, scheduled courses listed below. All courses available to Sessional Lecturers are listed, but please note that courses may have returning Sessional Lecturers, Adjunct Professors, or Clinical Faculty. Official UBC course descriptions can be found at: […]
Better nutrition in aquaculture targets disease reduction
Juvenile farmed fish to receive fulvic acids as a feed supplement.
New Frontiers Funding for COVID-19 Research
Research underway to treat patients with mild COVID-19 using a non-invasive nasal spray.
Sessional Lecturer (Business Concepts in Aquaculture)
Sessional Lecturer (Business Concepts in Aquaculture) Posted on July 22, 2022 The Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada is seeking applications for a Sessional Lecturer position, from September 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. Applicants must have a Master Degree or PhD in a related field, be […]
Funding for Indigenous food systems research
A team of researchers focused on revitalizing Indigenous food systems and promoting Indigenous food sovereignty have received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
New Faculty Profile: Tianxi Yang
New Faculty Profile: Tianxi Yang Tianxi Yang joined the Faculty’s Food, Nutrition and Health program in February 2022 as an Assistant Professor. She is a food and analytical scientist with a unique combination of research experience that spans academic, industry and government. Yang received her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and conducted her […]
New Faculty Profile: Jennifer Grenz
New Faculty Profile: Jennifer Grenz In January 2022, Assistant Professor Jennifer Grenz was cross-appointed in the faculties of Forestry and Land and Food Systems. Well-known in LFS for her popular weed science class, she completed her PhD in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Carol McAusland. She […]
Shaping Protein for New Applications
Shaping Protein for New Applications Transforming protein has been in the spotlight in the last decade as plant-based protein products grow in popularity. Current commercial processes rely on extruded plant protein to make meat substitutes, but Assistant Professor Derek Dee’s research focuses on changing protein on a nanomolecular level. Funded by a New Frontiers Grant […]
New Faculty Profile: Anna Brisco
New Faculty Profile: Anna Brisco, Lecturer in Dietetics Anna Brisco (they/them) has worked in the food system right across Canada, from being a culinary chef in Halifax to a food bank policy dietitian in Vancouver. They bring this experience to UBC’s new Master of Nutrition and Dietetics (MND) professional program, which launches this fall, as […]