The Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences (ALES) is a science-based faculty that is uniquely positioned. Our professors and students draw from the natural sciences, the social sciences and the arts and humanities to seek comprehensive solutions to some of the key challenges our province, country and world face today. ALES was founded in 1915 and has a long and rich history, tracing back to one of the oldest Faculties and earliest Departments at the University of Alberta.

Teaching, research and community engagement within the Faculty are focused on healthy human environments; the sustainability of land, forests and water; the biological, economic, social and technological underpinnings of the bio-products industry; and global food systems. We strive to meet the rapidly evolving challenges of achieving economic, social and environmental sustainability at regional, national and international levels. Our research programs, which receive over $35 million in funding annually, include both ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ sciences and are collaborative, multi- and inter-disciplinary in nature. Community engagement, knowledge transfer and application of research are integral to all teaching and research within ALES.

ALES is home to over 1400 undergraduate, 400 graduate students and 110 faculty members. Our undergraduate programs allow students to cross disciplinary, cultural and language boundaries. We provide a graduate education experience that promotes the pursuit of leading-edge research and deep scholarship while ensuring the development of strong connections to the external community and an understanding of the importance of science to society.


Strategic Planning Documents

ALES Academic Plan 
ALES Dare to Deliver Update
ALES Institutional Access Plan

Welcome to the Faculty of ALES




Student Profile - George



YunQi - Graduate Student Profile (English)



Visiting Professor - Sylvia Amaya-Llano