The information below is a great opportunity for students interested in tackle Fresh Water issues – AquaHacking is a Tech Challenge – Winning teams will win cash prizes for a total of $50,000 and a secured spot in a start-up incubator. (attached you will find: info about the challenge, poster and social media shareables)

My name is Carolina Restrepo and I am the coordinator for the AquaHacking Challenge BC 2020 ( I am also the Coordinator for the BRAES Institute at UBC Okanagan), that is hosted by the Okanagan Basin Water Board in partnership with Universities in BC including UBCO, UBCV, SFU, etc. AquaHacking is a tech challenge designed to engage young innovators to tackle critical fresh water issues. With a view to producing pragmatic and demand-driven solutions, teams are mentored by experts from tech, environment, business, academia and government. Students from all post-secondary Institutions in BC are invited to participate. Winning teams will win cash prizes for a total of $50,000 and a secured spot in a start-up incubator. More information at: https://aquahacking.com/en/bc-2020/. (general info about the challenge is also attached)

We are hosting an info-session at UBC on Wednesday, November 20^th at 1:00 PM at Room MLS 101 Michael Smith Lab Building 2185 East Mall (refreshments served) attached you will find a social media shareable and poster about the event, if you can share this information in your social media channels, and with your members it will be great!. We are also hosting weekly webinars on Thursdays Nov 21 and 28. Registration for the webinars here. I have had previous communications with faculty members at your faculty that might be already aware of the challenge.

I am sharing this information with you, because students that might be interested in the challenge are part of your faculty, we are already working with the faculties on campus with the recruiting of students for the challenge. Here is a list of the departments which students might be interested in participating in the challenge, we already have about 10 students from UBC Vancouver and Okanagan registered and we hope to have many more!:

• Engineering
• Math
• Computer Science
• Political science
• Biology
• Environmental Sciences
• Ecology
• Management
• Fine arts
• Among others

Thanks in advance and if you have any other question please don’t hesitate in contacting me.

Carolina Restrepo-Tamayo, M.Sc. — AquaHacking 2020 – B.C. Challenge  Coordinator

Okanagan Basin Water Board

1450 KLO Road, Kelowna, BC  V1W 3Z4

Office:   250.469.6264

Cell :       250.870.1731

www.obwb.ca

Up to 20 Trudeau Scholarships are awarded each year to support doctoral students pursuing research in one or more of the four themes: Human Rights and Dignity, Responsible Citizenship, Canada in the World and People and their Natural Environment. Trudeau Scholars are highly gifted individuals who are actively engaged in their fields and expected to become leading national and international figures.  The University of British Columbia can nominate up to 4 candidates to the national competition.

Value: $40,000 stipend plus up to $20,000 research and travel allowance per year for three years

UBC applicant deadline: 11:59pm PST on Friday, December 13, 2019

Please note that there is no graduate program nomination process. Applicants submit their application via the Trudeau Foundation online portal by the application deadline, after which the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will convene an adjudication committee composed of UBC faculty members to review applications and select UBC’s nominees to the national competition.

For further information, such as detailed eligibility requirements, evaluation criteria, and application procedures, please visit our webpage: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/trudeau-foundation-doctoral-scholarship.

Mark your calendars for the next LFS Community on Tuesday, Nov. 26. If you would like to suggest an agenda item to share with faculty and staff, please email lfs.dean@ubc.ca. The meeting will take place from 12:15-1:30pm in Michael Smith Labs, Room 101.

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LFS Community Meeting, Nov 26 – Call for agenda items

Mark your calendars for the next LFS Community on Tuesday, Nov. 26. If you would like to suggest an agenda item to share with faculty and staff, please email lfs.dean@ubc.ca. The meeting will take place from 12:15-1:30pm in Michael Smith Labs, Room 101.

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Next Monday, there will be a networking event for UBC students, alumni and faculty that are interested in developing a career in the Cannabis Industry. This event was organized by the Centre for Student Involvement & Careers and sponsored by the Master of Food and Resource Economics.

Free admission. RSVP required through https://ubc-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php/pid747744?s=event&ss=is&_ksl=1&mode=list

Event name: Industry Nights – Spotlight on Cannabis

Date & Time: Monday, November 18, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Venue: Jack Poole Hall – Alumni Centre

At this exclusive event for UBC students, alumni and faculty you are invited to discover all the opportunities within the Cannabis industry, now valued at $5.7 Billion dollars in Canada, and how you can position yourself for a career in the sector. 

We will have a keynote address by Cannabis expert Dr. Jonathan Page, who is both Chief Science Officer at Aurora Cannabis and UBC Adjunct Professor of Botany, followed by a panel of professionals who are currently leaders in the field, to share their experiences and insights.

There will also be a Q & A session and an opportunity to network with many UBC alumni who are working in the Cannabis industry.
This event is open to students and alumni from all faculties and majors including Undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D. students.
Leading Cannabis companies will also be exhibiting in a mini-job fair format and share job opportunities.

Panellists include:

• Dr. M-J Milloy – Research Scientist – Cannabis Science Professor at UBC
• Tegan Adams – CEO – New Maple Holdings
• KD Khairah – Chief Executive Officer/Founder – CanMar Recruitment

 

Please share and distribute it as you deem appropriate. Thank you.

 

 

We are writing to invite you to be present at the Unbecoming Modern congress.

Unbecoming Modernity is a student led congress continuing the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective, an intergenerational group of educators and lifelong learners who have been grappling with questions of the violence enacted in and through the modern habit of being. As a collective, we seek to better understand and render visible the violence [on bodies, on land, on minds] that constitutes modernity, and which continues to sustain its functioning in the present. The project is a weekend-long gathering held on UBC campus, involving both embodied exercises and critical conversations exploring the possibility of a decolonial future.

One  purpose of Unbecoming Modernity is to create space for vulnerable conversation aimed towards making visible and unlearningwhere and how our commitment to modernity naturalizes unsustainable ways of living that continue to treat the land as a resource for extraction and marginalizes Indigenous, racialized and queer peoples. Elders and facilitators will host embodied workshops to open up exiled capacities and empathic relations to deepen our capacities to relate beyond modernity. This event is multidisciplinary, and we will be engaging in conversation, movement, song and dance–all various approaches to becoming aware and unlearning.

Date: November 16 and 17, from 10-6pm

Location: UBC’s Wood Processing Center, Room FSC 2916, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Unceded Musqueam Traditional Territory

Lunch & midday snacks (gluten free and vegan) will be offered.

Please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/unbecoming-modern-tickets-80308150841

We acknowledge that this event will take place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam peoples. Please, if you can, be here on Coast Salish territories with us for the weekend.

Attached to this email is an Audio File invitation to this work.

Accessibility info:

Please refrain from wearing scents. Some herbs, including but not limited to Sage and Palo may be brought into the space for burning. Animals are welcome.

There is an elevator in the building, and our congress is located on the second floor. There is an accessible entrance located on the south side of the building on Thunderbird Crescent across from the Thunderbird Residences. This entrance is level and accessible and has a power door. Please see UBC Wayfinding for more details. (LINK)

Bathrooms are gendered and wheelchair accessible.

Please circulate this to those you know who may be interested in sharing space!

With gratitude,

The Unbecoming Modernity Youth Collective