Coordinating Smooth Food Service Operations at a Hospital
Daisy Shen is a Food Service Supervisor at Peace Arch Hospital. She coordinates and supervises 30 food service workers to ensure smooth food service operation.
Designing Biodegradable Food Packaging Materials
Meet Xanyar Mohammadi, whose research focuses on developing a new type of packaging material for food products that can easily decompose and have a low environmental impact.
2023 March is Nutrition Month
To mark Nutrition Month, we invited a few Land and Food Systems faculty, staff and students to give us their ideas for go-to meals, whether dessert is okay to eat, and ways they stay healthy.
Student Feature – Julia Watkins
Julia Watkins is a second-year LFS student studying Food, Nutrition, and Health, with aspirations to enter the dietetics program. In this feature, Julia shares a quinoa salad recipe!
Assistant or Associate Professor in Nutrition and Healthy Aging
Assistant or Associate Professor in Nutrition and Healthy Aging Posted on February 3, 2023 The Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (lfs-ps-2023.sites.olt.ubc.ca) is seeking an outstanding candidate for a full-time, tenure stream position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor within the Food, Nutrition and Health […]
Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition
Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition Posted February 3, 2023 The Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (lfs-ps-2023.sites.olt.ubc.ca) is seeking an outstanding candidate for a full-time, tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor within the Food, Nutrition and Health Program in the Human Nutrition group (https://lfs-ps-2023.sites.olt.ubc.ca/research/lfs-research-centres-groups/human-nutrition-group/). […]
Message from the Dean for LFS Community Connects: January 2023
Welcome to a new year, a fresh start for many people.
New Faculty Profile: David Wright
New Faculty Profile: David Wright David Wright joined UBC as a Professor in Exercise, Metabolism, Nutrition and Health, with a joint appointment in LFS and the School of Kinesiology. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Guelph where he recently held a Canada Research Chair in Lipids, Metabolism and Health (Tier 2). Wright […]
New Faculty Profile: Bruna Donatti Castro Falci
New Faculty Profile: Bruna Donatti Castro Falci Bruna Donatti Castro Falci joined the Food, Nutrition and Health Program as a Lecturer in June 2022, teaching in the Dietetics and the new Master of Nutrition and Dietetics programs. Before coming to Canada, she worked in clinical nutrition and as a Lecturer for 11 years in Brazil […]
New Faculty Profile: Jay Martiniuk
New Faculty Profile: Jay Martiniuk Growing up on his family’s vineyard in the Okanagan, and working as a cellar master and winemaker at B.C. wineries, Jay Martiniuk brings wine-making insights from industry to the classroom. He is excited to share this knowledge with his students as a Lecturer in wine science and fermentation. To Martiniuk, […]