{"id":11325,"date":"2025-02-05T12:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=11325"},"modified":"2025-02-05T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:33:24","slug":"sponsorships-to-attend-calgary-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-11325","title":{"rendered":"Sponsorships to attend Calgary conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Your chance to attend a Calgary food and agriculture conference <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LFS is sponsoring one student to attend the Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference (AWC) on March 16-18, 2025 in Calgary through a UBC Student Sponsorship. AWC is for women who are passionate about food and agriculture, bringing professionals and students together from across North America to build leadership skills, and support personal and professional development.<\/p>\n<p>Female undergraduate and graduate students in LFS can apply for the UBC Student Sponsorship. If selected, hotel accommodations, registration, and airfare\/travel costs will be covered! <strong><u>There are also partial sponsorships available, so check it out!<\/u>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for student sponsorships, including the UBC Student Sponsorship, you must complete the online application by <strong><u>Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is it like attending?\u00a0 See an Instagram reel from last year\u2019s sponsored student: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C6E4VtQiivl\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C6E4VtQiivl\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For questions, please contact Karen Lee (<a href=\"mailto:karen.lee98@ubc.ca\">karen.lee98@ubc.ca<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancingwomenconference.ca\/2025west\/student-application\/\">Apply now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen\u00a0Lee<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/equity.ubc.ca\/resources\/gender-diversity\/pronouns\/\">She, Her, Hers<\/a>)<br \/>\nDirector of Marketing and Communications<br \/>\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\n2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\nPhone 604 827 5297 | Cell 604 312 6343<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:karen.lee98@ubc.ca\">karen.lee98@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@ubcLFS\">@ubcLFS<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your chance to attend a Calgary food and agriculture conference LFS is sponsoring one student to attend the Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference (AWC) on March 16-18, 2025 in Calgary through a UBC Student Sponsorship. AWC is for women who are passionate about food and agriculture, bringing professionals and students together from across North America&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11327,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions\/11327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}