“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to help recent graduates and alumni survive COVID-19 and come out victorious. We’ll be sharing expert advice, straight talk, alumni personal stories and ideas, along with... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to... Read more »
“Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” series Join UNC's Gillings School Career Services office for their “Don't Quarantine Your Career: Log In & Learn” weekly career series to... Read more »
Presenters: Michael Hudgens, PhD, professor, Department of Biostatistics Bonnie Shook-Sa, DrPH, postdoctoral research associate, Department of Biostatistics SARS-CoV-2 PCR and serology tests are critical tools for identifying COVID-19 infections, modeling... Read more »
The Collaborative Core Center for Clinical Research is hosting a speaker series that highlights methodological work being conducted by researchers across the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases-funded P30 Core Centers for Clinical Research, with application to rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions. Jamie Collins, PhD, is an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at... Read more »
Truncated Latent Gaussian Copula Model for Zero-Inflated Data Dr. Gaynanova’s research focuses on the development of statistical methods to address the challenges associated with the analysis of modern high-dimensional biomedical... Read more »
Dr. Ramdas' main theoretical and methodological research interests include selective and simultaneous inference, sequential uncertainty quantification, and distribution-free black-box predictive inference. His areas of applied interest include neuroscience, genetics and voting. He is one of the organizers of the amazing and diverse StatML Group at Carnegie Mellon University: http://statml.cs.cmu.edu/people.html Flyer Zoom link Password to event:... Read more »
The Department of Biostatistics welcomes the remote visit of Dr. Jonathan Schildcrout, vice chair for research, biostatistics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Schildcrout's main research interests are in longitudinal... Read more »
We are welcoming Dr. Simon, who will talk about "Reframing proportional-hazards modeling for large time-to-event datasets with applications to deep learning." Dr. Simon works on machine learning (including penalized regression... Read more »
We are welcoming Dr. Saul, who will talk about "Functional programming for high-functioning statisticians." At NoviSci in Durham, Dr. Saul leads the statistics team and oversees the development of research... Read more »
In this talk we will discuss statistical challenges and opportunities with joint analysis of electronic health records and genomic data through " Genome and Phenome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS and PheWAS)".... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – October 6, 7 and 8, 2020). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort and merge data sets. Part 3 will... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – October 6, 7 and 8, 2020). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort and merge data sets. Part 3 will... Read more »
The Department of Biostatistics will host Dr. Stephens, a statistician and data scientist who has made seminal contributions to the practice and applications of statistics in genetics. The seminar is... Read more »
This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons – October 6, 7 and 8, 2020). Stata Part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort and merge data sets. Part 3 will... Read more »
Text Analysis Using R This two-day workshop hosted by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science will introduce participants to the basics of text analysis in R. Text analysis... Read more »
Text Analysis Using R This two-day workshop hosted by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science will introduce participants to the basics of text analysis in R. Text analysis... Read more »
Dr. Lorin Crawford is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and the RGSS Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University. His most recent work has earned him a place on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans list, and recognition as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.... Read more »
Computational Methods for Analyzing Big Data in the Social Sciences In this workshop hosted by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, participants will get an overview of various... Read more »
This online 3-day (10/19, 10/22, and 10/23) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how... Read more »
Dr. Kenneth Rice's research focuses primarily on developing and applying statistical methods for complex disease epidemiology, notably cardiovascular disease. He leads the Data Coordinating Center and Analysis Committee for the NHLBI's TOPMed project and is the PI of the associated U01 project (HL137162). He also chairs the Analysis Committee for the CHARGE consortium, a large... Read more »
This online 3-day (10/19, 10/22, and 10/23) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how... Read more »
This online 3-day (10/19, 10/22, and 10/23) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how... Read more »
Gillings Virtual Fall Student Success Seminar - Thrive: Revisiting (and Revising) Your 2020 Goals with Dr. Bahby Banks UNC Gillings Student Success Seminars focus on empowering all of our students to succeed in navigating the university environment. We plan the seminars with the overall goal of equipping students to achieve their academic and personal goals... Read more »
Barbara E. Engelhardt, an associate professor, joined the Princeton Computer Science Department in 2014 from Duke University, where she had been an assistant professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Statistical Sciences. Her research interests are Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, statistical genetics, computational biology, quantitative genetics and she received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2016.... Read more »
This course will provide an introduction to survey research methods for designing multinational and multicultural surveys. It begins with an overview of the field of comparative surveys. This will summarize... Read more »
Dr. Yingqi Zhao is the recipient of the UNC Biostatistics 2020 James. E. Grizzle Alumni Award. Dr. Zhao earned her PhD. in 2012. With the goal of improving patient outcomes,... Read more »
On Nov. 6 from 10:30 am - noon, presenter Joeseph Ibrahim, PhD, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, will speak on Bayesian sample size determination for a clinical trial in the... Read more »
Please join Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations Mary Beth Knight, PhD, and fellow faculty members to learn more about the process of seeking research and related funds from private sponsors; specific strategies for success; and the UNC resources available to support your efforts in this process. Discover actionable steps toward diversifying your funding portfolio... Read more »
The Public Health Student Leadership Association presents “Leadership in Public Health”. This virtual panel will feature six Gillings School of Global Public Health alumni from diverse backgrounds. Join them for a virtual discussion and Q&A session on Nov. 11 at 5:30 p.m. Panelists include: Dr. Vaughn Upshaw, Panel Moderator, Professor and Leadership in Practice Concentration... Read more »
