Faculty, staff and students in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering are invited to the lower Atrium at Michael Hooker Research Center for a holiday party with an environmentally-themed gingerbread building event. Contact Rhoda Cerny with questions.
Staff, faculty and students in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering are invited to have afternoon coffee, tea and cookies on the Upper Patio of Michael Hooker Research Center.
Participants are invited to join the PFAS Characterization, Removal and Replacement Workshop, organized by faculty in the UNC Chemistry and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Departments. The workshop will take place... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series which begins on January 18, 2023, at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. John Staley presenting “Working My Way Back to You: Helping Workers Return to the Workplace.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants benefit. For more... Read more »
Natural disasters caused about $270 billion worth of losses in 2022 alone. How do we mitigate the impact of natural disasters? Who is responsible for covering those losses? Join us as we discuss the role of scientists in natural disaster mitigation and resilience policy, both at the local and international levels. Our speakers bring academic... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series on Jan. 25 at 12:20 p.m. with Clara Eichler, doctoral candidate, presenting “The Monster in the Closet: Where PFAS Hides in Your Home.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants benefit. For more details, including how... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series on Jan. 25 at 12:20 p.m. with Naomi Chang, doctoral candidate, presenting “Ionic PFAS in the Indoor Environment or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fluorochemicals.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants benefit.... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series on February 8, 2023, at 12:20 PM with doctoral candidate Kennedy Holt presenting “One Risk, Two Risk, Red Risk, Blue... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series which continues on Feb. 15 at 12:20pm with Yifei Yang presenting “How Does the Gut Microbiome Play a Role in... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series on Feb. 22 at 12:20 p.m. with doctoral student Praful Dodda presenting “Air Pollution Modeling by Traditional and Modern Methodologies.” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants benefit. For more details, including how to join, please... Read more »
This event is a Community and Impact Screening of the documentary film The Smell of Money. From the film’s website: “A century after her grandfather claimed his freedom from slavery and the family land, Elsie Herring and her North Carolina community fight the world’s largest pork corporation for their freedom to enjoy fresh air, clean water, and a... Read more »
All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series on March 1 at 12:20 p.m. with Yu Ying, doctoral candidate, presenting “Weather or Not: Temperature Variations Fuel Energy Inequity.”... Read more »
This event qualifies for 1.25 hours of credit toward the annual Gillings School inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. A Carolina Engagement Week 2023 event: this talk will... Read more »
All are invited to the last ESE In-House Seminar on March 8 at 12:20 p.m. with Dr. Valeria De Lourdes Ochoa Herrera presenting “State of Water Quality in the Galapagos... Read more »
The Epidemiology and Justice Student Group and the UNC Gillings School's Department of Epidemiology present: The 2023 Environmental Justice Lecture Featuring Corban Addison, human rights advocate and international bestselling author of Wastelands. Thursday, March 23 3-4 P.M. 136 Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium and via Zoom This lecture honors the late Dr. Steven B. Wing, also known as... Read more »
Join the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering for their 2023 Distinguished Alumnus Seminar. Dr. Richard Johnston Technical Officer Water, Sanitation and Hygiene World Health Organization Johnston, who earned a... Read more »
Featuring Jeanette Reyes, PhD, physical scientist at the U.S. EPA, and Karen Setty, PhD Come directly engage with ESE alums! Ask honest and practical questions about life in environmental sciences... Read more »
Featuring Rebecca Martinez, PhD, Riley Mulhern, PhD, and Paul Fitzgerald Come directly engage with ESE alums! Ask honest and practical questions about life in environmental sciences workplaces. Watch online.
Gillings Research Unit Presents a two-part, virtual, education session on International Research Compliance. They will have speakers from the Export Controls Office, as well as the Office for the Vice Chancellor of Research. Part I speaker: William Bucha Export Compliance Manager UNC Export Compliance Office Division of Institutional Integrity and Risk Management Learn more and... Read more »
This event will be for affiliates of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. 12:05 Department Photo 12:10 Awards Presentations Contact Rhoda Cerny with questions.
Gillings Research Unit Presents a two-part, virtual, education session on International Research Compliance. They will have speakers from the Export Controls Office, as well as the Office for the Vice Chancellor of Research. Part II speaker: Brian Collier Science and Security Director Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Learn more and register. Contact Jamie... Read more »
Join the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering for a retirement party for Jane Boyer. Contact Rhoda Cerny with questions.
PreMiEr is an Engineering Research Center funded by the NSF, comprised of five North Carolina universities (Duke, NCA&T, NC State, UNC-CH, UNC-Charlotte) with the mission to improve the health of people occupying the built environment (e.g., homes, schools, workplaces) through manipulation of the microbiomes of those environments. Microbiome or not? Measuring low biomass environments in... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Sept. 28 in the Michael Hooker Research Center, Lower Level Atrium. Additional opportunities will... Read more »
Green Zone training is for faculty, staff, and students who wish to learn more about the military connected student experience. The goals are to train members of the Carolina community to know more about the issues and concerns military connected students face and to identify individuals available to assist this population. Upon completion, participants will... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Oct. 5 in the Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, Atrium Lobby. Additional opportunities will... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Thursday, Oct. 12 in the Genetic Medicine Research Building, Atrium Lobby Additional opportunities will be... Read more »
This short course is designed to provide participants with fundamentals on how to design, conduct, and analyze cognitive interviews. Participants will have the opportunity to practice specific cognitive interviewing techniques,... Read more »
Dr. Marcella Boynton is currently an assistant professor in the UNC Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine and a biostatistician at UNC NC TraCS Institute where... Read more »
An opportunity for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus on Friday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. – Frank Porter Graham Student Union (Employee Appreciation Day) There are several other opportunities for UNC-Chapel Hill community members to obtain a flu vaccination on campus: Student Stores Pharmacy - Offers no-appointment flu... Read more »
This 2-day course (10/23 2-4pm & 10/25 3-5pm) is designed to provide a guide for consumers of probability-based panels to understand what they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability panels in evaluating their use for data collections, and how to best use probability-based panel data. It will... Read more »
This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introductory to Qualtrics short course. We will take a deeper dive into “Survey Flow” features including routing with branches, embedded data, customizing the “End of Survey” experience, and randomization. We will explore embedded data, and several ways you can import or set data in your... Read more »
PreMiEr is an Engineering Research Center funded by the NSF, comprised of five North Carolina universities (Duke, NCA&T, NC State, UNC-CH, UNC-Charlotte) with the mission to improve the health of people occupying the built environment (e.g., homes, schools, workplaces) through manipulation of the microbiomes of those environments. Join Dr. Alexander McCumber in the series talk... Read more »
This course will focus on both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques to measure health. First, participants will learn about collecting qualitative data on health through semi-structured interviews and researcher driven photo-elicitation interviews. Second, we give an introduction to the design and implementation of quantitative surveys. Participants will learn more about the design of survey... Read more »
PreMiEr is an Engineering Research Center funded by the NSF, comprised of five North Carolina universities (Duke, NC A&T, NC State, UNC-CH, UNC-Charlotte) with the mission to improve the health... Read more »
This course will introduce participants to some of the best practices of professional software development. Participants will learn to structure their Python code into reusable functions and store those functions as separate scripts and/or packages. Participants will learn to write automated tests for their functions, to help confirm that results are as expected and to... Read more »
This course is the second in a two-part scale development course series on scale development. Part one of the series focused on the general theories and methods used in the scale development process. This second portion focuses on the analytic methods used to statistically test, refine, and validate scale data. These methods include Cronbach’s alpha,... Read more »
PreMiEr is an Engineering Research Center funded by the NSF, comprised of five North Carolina universities (Duke, NCA&T, NC State, UNC-CH, UNC-Charlotte) with the mission to improve the health of people occupying the built environment. Registration is required. Contact PreMiEr ERC with questions.
This is a full-day, intensive, interactive course focused on using the Dataverse Application Programming Interface (API) to interact with data archived in a Dataverse-based repository. The session will be broken into to two segments over the course of the day: 1) we will cover the basics of what an API is, how it works, and... Read more »
RSVP In Person by visiting the Scientific Symposium in Honor of Dr. James Swenberg webpage. If you are interested in attending via zoom, visit the Zoom Webinar RSVP webpage. Contact Rhoda Cerny with questions.
