Academics are increasingly asked to engage with public actors from policymakers to journalists. Rarely, however, are academics given any guidance or strategies for doing so. In this workshop, Dr. Rashawn... Read more »
This course will introduce you to extracting structured data from web pages, also known as “scraping” the pages. We will use the R programming language. The first portion of the course will introduce basic HTML, CSS selectors, Developer Tools in Google Chrome, and the R packages used for web scraping. The second portion will consist... Read more »
Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program. For our upcoming event, we will be welcoming Dr. Michael Emch to talk about “Malaria in Africa: Ecology, Mitigation, and Challenges”. Contact Will Freund with questions.
Qualtrics allows users to build complex surveys, distribute them, and analyze the responses all from one place. In this course, we will cover basic Qualtrics functions including creating some of the most common question types, programming display and skip logic, an introduction to “survey flow”, distributing surveys with an anonymous link vs survey mailer, creating... Read more »
This course will provide participants with a broad overview of considerations and approaches for capturing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). This includes examining the current best practices and approaches, and considerations for sampling and other key design considerations when researching these populations. The course is intended to give participants an opportunity to better understand... Read more »
Join the Undergraduate Consulting Club (UCC) for a day of networking with 10+ firms and attend workshops to help you prepare for recruiting, interviewing, and consulting. The day will be split into two tracks—an exploratory track for first-years/sophomores and a personalized networking track for juniors/seniors. Bootcamp is a great opportunity for learning about your interests... Read more »
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Please join us for "Community-Based Primary Health Care in Low Resource Areas," a panel discussion with speakers from Curamericas Global. Contact Caroline McKay with questions.
Gillings on the Ground (GoG), is a free, six-week virtual "mini-course" hosted by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Through weekly sessions with community partners and UNC faculty members, GoG helps participants develop the skills needed to work effectively with communities in disaster preparedness and response.
The Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium (INSS) is an annual translational nutrition science conference. This conference will build on the dialogue that began in their first three symposia to develop best practices for translational nutrition science and to generate ideas for proposals and collaborative projects, which will lead public health, therapeutic and clinical efforts to reduce obesity and its... Read more »
This workshop will present proven strategies for mapping out a dissertation completion plan in any discipline. Workshop participants will learn how to develop relational success with the dissertation chair and committee, identify and delimit the dissertation topic, undertake a disciplined approach to the review of literature and become familiar with the essential chapter development of... Read more »
Although graduate school teaches you many things, many Ph.D. students complete their dissertations having never been fully trained in academic publishing. How does academic publishing actually work? Where should you publish your research? How do you actually get papers accepted in strong academic journals? In this talk, we will discuss several major ideas in academic... Read more »
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
This short course will demonstrate the capabilities of the PC version of ATLAS.ti (v 23), a qualitative analysis software program for coding and interpreting qualitative data. ATLAS.ti also provides numerous options for attaching memos and comments to text segments, documents, and codes. We will demonstrate how to import textual data, create and apply codes, write... Read more »
The Gillings School is hosting a Zoom training for Active Shooter and Critical Incident Response this Wednesday, from 2:30-3:30pm. This training is lead by Sgt. James David of the UNC-CH... Read more »
This course will cover the features of MAXQDA (version 2022), a software program that supports qualitative data analysis and helps users systematically code, evaluate, and interpret textual data. Its capabilities include coding, memo writing, matrix building, and diagramming. We will demonstrate importing data, applying codes, using demographic variables, running reports, generating analytic matrices and using... Read more »
Come meet the Inclusive Excellence team! Join us for light refreshments, enter to win prizes and discuss new Inclusive Excellence initiatives with the team. Learn about upcoming events and ways you can help foster an inclusive environment at Gillings. Contact Gemma Herrera with questions.
Join us for the Student Activities Fair. Meet all of the Gillings Student Organizations and find out how to get involved! Snacks will be available in the Atrium. Loco Pops will be provided by Gillings Advancement.
This event will bring together speakers from across the country and distinguished researchers within North Carolina for interdisciplinary discussions to explore the nexus of data, methods and applications of geospatial information that inform biology and social context for health. In-person and virtual options are available, with lunch provided for in-person attendees. This is a co-sponsored... Read more »
This 2-part (9/26/23 & 9/28/23), 4-hour course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git and Github are... Read more »
Come join the Office of Student Affairs for drinks, snacks, games, prizes and fun!
Come join us for Drinks, Snacks, Games, Prizes, and Fun!
If someone is suffering a heart attack or other medical emergency, you offer first aid (and call 911!). What do you do if someone is experiencing a mental health crisis or is developing a mental health problem? Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an eight-hour training designed to help you develop basic skills to help... Read more »
This 2-part (9/26/23 & 9/28/23), 4-hour course will be offered via Zoom, over two mornings. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded. Participants will learn how to... Read more »
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