"Are you a Premed, Eco Evo, or Bio student looking for research experience? If so, the UCI Healthy Oceans & People Lab is recruiting new team members from all backgrounds! Join them in virtual research of marine wastewater contamination- while gaining experience in human infectious disease, marine ecology, microbiology, and conservation.
For more information, email coordinators dawkinsp@uci.edu, skcunnin@hs.uci.edu, and marush@uci.edu, or visit the HOPE Lab website.
EJOA is an intensive training that covers topics such as Indigenous Sovereignty, Climate and Environmental Justice, and Policy Advocacy, to prepare participants mobilize in their cities as OCEJEF members to investigate environmental injustices, hold elected officials accountable, and implement Just Transition policy changes.
This year, they plan to include two curriculum tracks: Track I is focused on grassroots organizing and community-led research action partnerships, and Track II is focused on electoral organizing and building campaigns around environmental justice issues.
The newly founded ISOHA (International Student One Health Alliance) is currently looking for officers for next year.
ISOHA has the mission to educate students about One Health issue, defined as issues that cross all geographical boundaries to affect animals, humans, and the environment. Learning about the intersectionality of global issues is critical to giving animals, minorities, and the environment a voice in health policy and practices to promote health equity. They offer students an international platform to collaborate and share One Health educational and professional development opportunities.
The Challenge: Has the word ‘sustainability’ become an empty term used in policy, industry, research and amongst consumers? How can we move beyond the hype towards real sustainable change?
The Future: A renewed understanding of the word ‘sustainability’, in which everyone has a clear definition of what qualifies as sustainable. The parameters of sustainability lay a common foundation for all the actors in the food system (from farmers, industry, research, policy and consumers) to move towards true sustainable production and consumption.
The Question: How do we qualify, quantify and reinforce sustainable practices, industries, innovations and policies?
Your View: This Dialogue invites the millennial generation to discuss these questions openly and honestly from their own perspectives as consumers, as well as their roles (if applicable) in sales/marketing, agriculture, industry, policy innovation.
The SRC weekly e-digest promotes events and opportunities that appear in the Sustainability Calendar or Opportunities Database during the week. To best ensure your event appears here, use the online form or email us at sustainability-center@uci.edu to add your programs.Deadline for submissions to appear in the e-digest is Wednesdays at 12:00pm. Thank you!
