Three-day SPSS Course
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 »
This Department of Nutrition seminar, "What Are My Biases? Implicit Bias Inventory and Dialogue," will feature Vickie Suggs-Jones, PhD, diversity and inclusion strategist/consultant from Diversity & HR Solutions, LLC. Registration... 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 their history and discuss some unique design features and implementation challenges inherent in their design and implementation. The second section discusses quality and risk management... Read more »
Nikki A. Ford, PhD, senior director of nutrition at Hass Avocado Board, will give a presentation titled "The Avocado Nutrition Center: Working for a Quasi-Federal Organization." Registration required.
Precision, Personalized, and Global Nutrition: Why, What, and How? The annual Department of Nutrition and UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center seminar series will focus on a variety of topics, including: The mechanisms by which coagulation factors control aspects of diet-induced obesity Implicit biases and what can we do to improve diversity and inclusion in the... Read more »
Dr. K. Sean Kimbro, Associate Professor at North Carolina Central University, will give a presentation titled "Novel Interleukins Contribute to Lipid and Glucose Dysregulation in African Americans with Type 2... Read more »
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program presents a virtual symposium featuring keynote speaker and P&F awardee Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen and presentations from P&F award winners Dr. Kyle S. Burger, Dr. Rachel W. Goode, Dr. Abbie Smith-Ryan and Dr. Maya Styner. Speakers will discuss their current research, their experiences as a... Read more »
During the first full week of April each year, APHA brings together communities across the United States to observe National Public Health Week as a time to recognize the contributions... Read more »
Dr. Colin Orr, assistant professor of general pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, will give a presentation titled “Food Insecurity and its Impact on Child Growth and Nutrition.” Registration... Read more »
Dr. Linda M. Collins, Professor of Global Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University, will give a seminar titled “It’s About More Than Effectiveness: Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions.” Registration is required.
As part of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center's Enrichment Program, Dr. Lamis Jomaa, associate professor of nutrition and food sciences at American University of Beirut, will give a seminar titled... Read more »
Kymberly Gowdy, MS, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, will present “Dietary n3-PUFAs Modulate the Pulmonary Response to Environmental Exposures” Co-sponsored by the UNC NORC and the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility Friday, Feb. 25 @ 2 p.m.... Read more »
Please join NC TraCS for a CTSA Grand Rounds seminar, "The impact of sleeping and waking behaviors on maternal health during pregnancy," with Marquis Hawkins, PhD. He will discuss his work on sleep health characteristics and gestational weight gain. Hawkins is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh and... Read more »
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center invites submission of abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students currently working in the lab or research group of a current UNC NORC member. Four prizes will be awarded. The best undergraduate student poster will receive a $250 prize, and the best undergraduate student oral presentation will receive a $250... Read more »
The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Program will hold an in-person symposium on Monday, April 18 from 1 – 3 p.m. in the Blue Cross & Blue Shield Auditorium of the Michael Hooker Research Center. The symposium will feature a keynote from Dr. Stephen D. Hursting, Co-Director of the UNC... Read more »
Designed for graduate students, health professionals and nutrition scientists from academia, agencies, and industry This course delivers fundamental NGx concepts and addresses barriers that impede translation of research results from laboratories to people by bringing together researchers and practitioners in NGx concepts ranging from cell biology to dietetics. Learn more and register. Presented by: UNC... Read more »
You are invited to the Third Annual Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium, to be held in person on July 21-22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Registration and travel awards are available for early-stage investigators and trainees. All are welcome to attend. Presenters: Charles Serhan, PhD, Simon Gelman Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical... Read more »
You are invited to the Third Annual Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium, to be held in person on July 21-22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Registration and... Read more »
Virtual Seminar with Carla Prado, PhD, “Body Composition in Research and Clinical Settings: From Assessment to Targeted Nutrition Interventions” Professor / Campus Alberta Innovates Program (CAIP) Chair in Nutrition, Food... Read more »
In this in-person seminar, Dr. Herman Pontzer will give a seminar on “Aging, Exercise and Evolution in Human Energetics.” Dr. Pontzer is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology and global... Read more »
In-Person Seminar with Rick Woychik, PhD, “Emerging Scientific Priorities at the NIEHS” Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) All are welcome Register here.
The 2nd Annual UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) Student Research Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET in the atrium... Read more »