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<p class="MsoNormal">Friendly reminder <a href="https://latinxsenv.ucr.edu/latinxs-environment-conference-2023">
https://latinxsenv.ucr.edu/latinxs-environment-conference-2023</a> - it’s not too late to register for today or tomorrow. Refer to the conference website for the latest information.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Today the program will be in downtown Riverside at the Culver Center. We will have Mariachi, food, a cultural vendor, and undergraduate and graduate students will share their research. Our featured speaker will be Assemblymember Eduardo
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<p style="margin:0in">Together with colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, we are co-organizing the inaugural University of California Latinx and the Environment Research Conference.
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">This conference will bring undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and faculty to UCR from across the UC system to celebrate diversity with the theme: <i>Connecting the Latinx Community in Environmental
Research, Social Change, and Transformation. </i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">This conference is part of a program called Latinx and the Environment, which aims to increase the presence of Latinx researchers in the environmental niche.
<a href="https://latinxsenv.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">Latinxs and the Environment</a><span style="color:black"> is a new UC collaboration between UCR and UC Berkeley, funded by UCOP, as part of their Hispanic Serving Institution Doctoral Diversity Initiative.
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particularly if we consider the disproportionately negative impacts of climate change in the Latinx community. The event is to take place Friday, October 20<sup>th,</sup> and Saturday, October 21<sup>st</sup>, 2023 at the University of California, Riverside
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