Farm to School: Early Childhood and Primary Education
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for... Read more »
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Nutrition Events
Nutrition Seminar: Novel Interleukins Contribute to Lipid and Glucose Dysregulation in African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes
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 »
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From Pilot Data to Federal Funding: Lessons from Pilot and Feasibility Program Award Winners
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 »
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Diversifying the Gillings Research Workforce: NIH Diversity Supplement Workshop
This workshop qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the Gillings School's annual inclusive excellence training requirement for faculty and staff. The goal of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)... Read more »
Farm to Outreach
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for... Read more »
Farm to Hospital
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for... Read more »
Farm to Correctional Facility
Join Gillings MPH/RD students as they host experts from different areas of the food system as part of the inaugural Farm to Institution Speaker Series, held under the Food for... Read more »
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Entrepreneurship Panel: A Virtual Discussion with Entrepreneurs of Color at the Gillings School
What are the structural and systemic barriers experienced by entrepreneurs of color? Join a panel of Gillings School alumni and faculty entrepreneurs on April 1 to learn more about their experience starting public health consultancies, empowering girls, building resilience in rural communities and more! Registration required. Featuring: Jean G. Orelien, DrPH, BIOS ’07, founder of... Read more »
National Public Health Week: Building Bridges to Better Health
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 »
From Awareness to Action: Confronting Weight Stigma to Promote Public Health
The Department of Nutrition is excited to share the inaugural Weight Stigma Awareness Series! Nutrition students and faculty curated this two-part event to increase awareness of weight stigma and lay... Read more »
Global Food Systems and Sustainable Nutrition in the 21st Century
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:00am to 5:30pm EST This event will be held virtually. All are welcome. The NORCH is pleased to announce the topic for this year’s symposium: Global Food Systems and Sustainable Nutrition in the 21st Century. The lineup of speakers includes experts in the fields of public health, global food systems, food... Read more »
Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?
Dept of Nutrition Seminar: "Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?" Dr. Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine, will give a presentation titled “Metabolically Healthy Obesity: Resilience or Just a Matter of Time?” Registration is required at https://go.unc.edu/nutrseminars
Nutrition for a Healthy Brain
Celebrate Healthy Aging month with Gillings Culture of Health at a lunch and learn on Nutrition for a Healthy Brain! Learn about eating to support a healthy brain (and gut brain), decrease inflammation and improve mood and cognition. Take home some simple strategies for healthy aging! Learn more and register. Thursday, September 16, 12:30-1:15pm
Food Insecurity and its Impact on Child Growth and Nutrition
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 »
It’s About More Than Effectiveness: Optimization of Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions
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.
Undergraduate Research with the Nutrition Research Institute
Dr. Susan Sumner from the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI), professors from her laboratory team, and undergraduate researchers from her lab will share the unique opportunities available for undergraduate students at the NRI. Learn more and view the session. This event is part of University Research Week.
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Health of Our State and Beyond Series: Obesity
Leveraging the strengths of Carolina’s schools of public health and medicine, its affiliated research centers and institutes, and its prowess in big data management, the Heterogeneity in Obesity Creativity Hub:... Read more »
Virtual Cook Along with Dr. Alice Ammerman
The Department of Nutrition invites you to join Professor Alice Ammerman, DrPH, ’90, MPH ’82, as she accepts the Nutrition Distinguished Alumni Award with a virtual cook along and research... Read more »
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Gillings Practice StakehoIder Session for Students
Gillings students, as part of schoolwide strategic planning, the Gillings School has convened a Practice Task Force, and we need to hear from you! We are seeking your thoughts and... Read more »
Food and Nutrition Security in the Era of Sustainability: Evidence From the MENA Region
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 "Food and Nutrition Security in the Era of Sustainability: Evidence From the MENA Region.” Learn more and register.
Nutrition 75th Anniversary Speaker Series: Dr. Mercedes Carnethon
Please join the Department of Nutrition for a lecture with Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, ('00 epidemiology), vice-chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Mary Harris Thompson Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) at Northwestern University. Dr. Carnethon’s research focuses on the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, lung health and... Read more »
Dietary n3-PUFAs Modulate the Pulmonary Response to Environmental Exposures
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... Read more »
NORC Student Research Competition
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... Read more »
UNC NORC Pilot and Feasibility Program Symposium
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe 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... Read more »
Machine Learning Tools & Precision Medicine in Arthritis & Autoimmunity
Machine learning analysis methods offer the opportunity to integrate and learn from large amounts of biological, clinical, and environmental data. During this session, clinicians and researchers will discuss examples of... Read more »
NGx: a short course on Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics and Precision Health
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... Read more »
Canvas Challenge Summer 2022
The Canvas Challenge is a multi-module, guided-paced course available fully online on Canvas for Gillings’ teaching faculty. The Challenge affords instructors a collaborative space to refine their pedagogical practices with discussion among faculty, facilitation of an instructional designer, and support in course development in Canvas. Register for the summer cohort by COB on Friday, July... Read more »
Third Annual Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium: Diet and Chronic Unresolved Inflammation: Implications for Obesity-Associated Complications
133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesYou 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 »
Third Annual Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium: Diet and Chronic Unresolved Inflammation: Implications for Obesity-Associated Complications
133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesYou 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 »
Body Composition in Research and Clinical Settings: From Assessment to Targeted Nutrition Interventions
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 »
New NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy Info Session
This session will cover the scope and requirements of NIH’s new Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy that goes into effect on January 25, 2023. Supplementary NIH guidance on the DMS plans required in proposals, data repository selection and allowable costs in proposal budgets will also be reviewed. Some resources and tools to help researchers... Read more »
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National Health Equity Research Webcast – Environmental Justice: The Science, the People, the Politics
Save the date for the 28th National Health Equity Research Webcast, “Environmental Justice: The Science, the People, the Politics.” September 16, 2022, 3-4:30 p.m. Free registration opening soon. Subscribe to their newsletter to get updates about registration, panelists, and NHERW events. The archive of the 27th webcast, “This is U.S.: Dissent, Denial, and the Health of Populations,” is available... Read more »
Dr. Marion Nestle: Food Politics in the Coronavirus Era: What’s Next
133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPlease join the Department of Nutrition as they welcome author and academic Dr. Marion Nestle on Sept. 22. Dr. Nestle will be speaking on her experience with food politics with... Read more »
Aging, Exercise and Evolution in Human Energetics
2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn 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 »
Aging and Mobility
As part of the University's Research Week, you are invited to the Department of Health Sciences' research forum on October 12 (noon - 1 pm), featuring speakers on Aging and Mobility. The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. We ask that you RSVP if you would like to... Read more »
FHI 360-UNC Gillings Graduate Research Fellowship Info Session
Please join the Gillings global health team to learn more about a yearlong funded global health fellowship opportunity with FHI 360. A rep from FHI 360 will discuss the fellowship... Read more »
Emerging Scientific Priorities at the NIEHS
133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesIn-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.
Precision Nutrition: Connections Between Food, Environment and Health Virtual Mini-symposium
Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Precision Nutrition: Connections Between Food, Environment, & Health, a free virtual mini-symposium from 2-4 p.m. on Wednesday, March... Read more »
‘Que for the Kids
FedEx Global Education Center Atrium 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAll are invited to 'Que for the Kids, an annual fundraiser dinner on Tuesday, April 11 from 6-8 pm at the FedEx Center! 100% of proceeds from the event will go to fund school breakfasts and lunches for children in NC through the Carolina Hunger Initiative! The event includes barbecue from local chef Sam Suchoff,... Read more »
UNC NORC Student Research Symposium
Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesThe 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 »
Gillings International Research Compliance Corner Part I: Export Controls
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... Read more »