14th Annual G.E. Scudder Lecture in Entomology
14th Annual G.E. Scudder Lecture in Entomology: Dr. Jessica Ware, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University Join Jessica Ware, Associate Professor, Department of...
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Save the Date – UBC Dairy Centre Open House
Save the Date for the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre’s annual Open House on Saturday, July 16th from 9am-4pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet some of our student researchers and learn...
View ArticleLFS Research Cafe — Assistant Professor Siyun Wang
The next LFS Research Café will be held on Thursday, May 26! Join Assistant Professor Siyun Wang, Food Science, and three of her grad students, Karen Fong, Patricia Hingston, and Justin Falardeau for a...
View ArticleUBC 100 What’s Next? : Meeru Dhalwala – Future of Food Sources
What will we eat when we need to feed 11 billion people globally by 2100? With rapid population increase and climate change coupled with the focus on cash crops and loss of food diversity, is a...
View ArticleBringing Down Walls Between Classrooms, Online and Field Studies: A UBC Soil...
Monday, May 2, 2016 | 9:30 – 10:15 am IK Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301 Register online This presentation will review how a team of multidisciplinary faculty and staff of the Virtual Soil...
View ArticleGenome BC: Environmental Farming Footprint and Climate Change
Genome BC Presents – Food: Sustainability and Innovation Series Environmental Farming Footprint and Climate Change Tuesday, April 12th, 5:30 – 7:00pm Telus World of Science, 1455 Quebec St, Vancouver,...
View ArticlePublic Talk: Dr. Greta Gölz, Institute of Food Hygeine at Freie Universität...
Dr. Greta Gölz will visit UBC and will give a public talk entitled “Research of Campylobacter and Arcobacter in Germany“. Time: Thursday, April 7 | 10:00 – 11:30 am Location: Room 220, Food Nutrition...
View ArticleUBC Emeriti Research Seminar
Students, staff, faculty, and the UBC community are invited to the 6th Research Seminar from the UBC Association of Professors Emeriti. Thursday, April 7, 2016 | 1:00 to 4:00pm Peter Wall Institute for...
View ArticleUnravel the secrets of soil using molecular biology
Speaker: Dixi Modi, MSc student, Soil Science (Supervisor Suzanne Simard) Topic: Unravel the secrets of soil using molecular biology Date & Location: Friday April 1, 3:00-4:00 pm Room 154 MacMillan...
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25th Annual MacCarthy Lecture in Pest Management
Speaker: G. Christopher Cutler, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University Pollinator declines and pesticides: What’s the role of...
View ArticleMFRE Speaker Series: Jessica Verhagen, Axine Water Technologies
Friday, March 18 | 3:30-5:00 pm Location: MCML160 Speaker: Jessica Verhagen, Development Executive at Axine Water Technologies Axine has developed the world’s cleanest, safest and lowest cost solution...
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MFRE Speaker Series: David Minato, BC Salmon Farmers Association
Speaker: David Minato, Regulatory Affairs & Community Manager at BC Salmon Farmers Association Friday, March 11 | 4:00 to 5:30pm Location: Room MCML 160 David Minato is a graduate of Simon Fraser...
View ArticleUBC Ripple Lab – Keeping the Beet: Seasonal Eating Throughout the Year
Interested in learning more about eating seasonally? Join UBC Farm staff on March 15 at Keeping the Beet: Seasonal Eating Throughout the Year, part of UBC’s Ripple Effect campaign. This Ripple Lab will...
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Seminar Mar. 18: “Soil-Like” is not Soil – The Importance of Fundamental...
“Soil-Like” is not Soil: The Importance of Fundamental Characteristics on the Behaviour of Geo-Materials Lois Boxill PhD Candidate, UBC Mining Engineering Principal Consultant, SRK Consulting...
View ArticleSave the Date: Joy of Feeding 2016
Joy of Feeding is an inter-generational, international food festival and annual fundraiser for UBC Farm that celebrates homecooked dishes from various cultural backgrounds from around our world. We are...
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Food & Agribusiness Speaker Series: Monte Staats, Persephone Brewing/Hop Yard...
Friday, March 4th, 2016 | 11:00am-12:30pm Location: FSC 1001 Speaker: Monte Staats, Manager of Hop Yard, Operations, Persephone Farms Persephone Brewing Company, Open Demonstration Hop Yard and...
View ArticleLFS Graduate Student Conference
Thursday, March 3, 2016 | 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Ballroom, Old Student Union Building, 6138 Student Union Boulevard Come watch our amazing graduate (and undergraduate!) students proudly present their...
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Seminar Mar. 4: Water management under seasonal drought conditions on the...
Water management under seasonal drought conditions on the Sunshine Coast, BC Monte Staats Environmental Technician, Sunshine Coast Regional District (MLWS Program Alumnus) Friday, Mar. 4th, 2016 3:00...
View ArticleCranberry Crop Decline: could heterogeneous soil conditions lead to variable...
This week in soil science Topic: Cranberry Crop Decline: could heterogeneous soil conditions lead to variable crop growth? Speaker: Anthony Leung, MSc. student Soil Science Date & Location: Friday...
View ArticleResource & Environment Speaker Series: Heather Wood, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Speaker: Heather Wood, Senior Policy Analyst at Fisheries and Oceans Canada Friday, February 26 | 3:30 – 5:00 pm MCML 160, 2357 Main Mall Heather Wood is the Regional Manager of Aquaculture Programs,...
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