Industry Spotlight: Innovating the Future: Explore STEM Careers Beyond Medicine

Published April 6, 2026

📅 Tuesday, April 21st | 🕔 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | 📍 In-Person @ Brotman Hall-250

Join us for an in‑person event where you’ll discover diverse STEM career pathways outside of medicine. Learn how to get your foot in the door, what day‑to‑day work in these fields looks like, and gain insider advice on how to thrive in these growing industries.

Free food and drinks!

Join Us To:

  • Gain insider tips to thrive in growing industries.
  • Discover what day-to-day work looks like.
  • Learn how to break into these fields.

Event Panelists:

  • Environmental Resource Management
    • Parth Jhaveri is a Project Managing Scientist at ERM (Environmental Resources Management), a global environmental consulting firm that he has been at for nearly 8 years. His background is in marine ecology, but as a managing consultant he works on a vast array of environmental work. He received a BS in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from UC Irvine and an MS in Marine Ecology from Cal Poly Pomona.
  • Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
    • Hazel Vaquero is the Data Director at the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, where she specializes in environmental data science. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Data Science from the UC Santa Barbara Bren School and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the City College of New York.
  • California Resource Board
    • Telena Vo is an Air Resources Engineer where she currently works on the certification of light-duty vehicles before they’re introduced into California for sale. Notable manufacturers she works with are Porsche and Volkswagen. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a major in Environmental Engineering.
    • Dr. Reul-Chen is an Air Resource Engineer collaborating with and advocating for disadvantaged communities in the LA area to reduce their air pollution burden. She has a doctorate in environmental science and engineering from UCLA, and a bachelor’s in environmental engineering sciences from MIT.
    • Henry Cheung is an Air Resources Engineer. He works on the implementation team of California’s regulations for in-use off-road equipment, and works on interpreting the regulations, and developing CARB’s off-road equipment online reporting system, known as DOORS. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a major in Chemical Engineering and in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Environmental Sciences.

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