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Launch Your Career in Canada is UBC’s annual networking experience open only to UBC international students, dedicated to supporting their career development. Each year, Launch Your Career in Canada provides an opportunity for UBC’s international students to connect with alumni, who were once international students, and learn from their experience establishing their career.

Check out a forum on how to effectively articulate complex graduate research in #STEM to media, public and other decision-makers! Featuring IRES’s Dr. Kai Chan, Dr. Kira Hoffman of UBC Faculty of Forestry, and Dr. Nemy Banthia of UBC Engineering.

With IRES’ Kai Chan and Paige Olmsted as featured speakers, Smart Prosperity Institute is an environment-economy research think tank, where much of the focus is on how to build a resilient and sustainable economy. When it comes to valuing nature, there are often critiques that market-based approaches and economic language and thinking undermine the true value of ecosystems and natural landscapes. Our discussion will ask when and how attaching economic values to nature can be beneficial or harmful, and will include a range of perspectives and on-the-ground experiences speaking to how nature gets included and left out of decision-making.

This online event, featuring IRES’s Dr. Boyd, focuses on the arrest and torture of Tibetans who speak publicly about Chinese government policies in Tibet. China’s development model in Tibet ignores the Tibetan people’s actual social, environmental, and economic needs.