Introduction to Focus Groups

Room 219 Davis Library 208 Raleigh St., Chapel Hill

Focus group interviews are commonly used for survey development, content development, and qualitative data collection to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs that affect behavior. An overview of the basics of focus groups supplemented with real examples and hands-on practice will highlight the most appropriate uses of focus groups, moderating focus groups, developing interview... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill

Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions.

Finding Hope (and a Job) in DC

1301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Michel A. Ibrahim Seminar Room) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill

Join Jerold Mande for a discussion on federal nutrition policy. Learn about the main "players" in nutrition policy in Washington DC, updates on major nutrition policy initiatives and tips for how to get a federal job and have an outsized impact on public health. Following his talk, Mande will be available at a reception to... Read more »

Biostatistics Seminar: Di Wu, PhD, and Matthew Biggs, PhD

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill

Di Wu, PhD Matthew Biggs, PhD The Biostatistics Seminar on October 24, 2019 will be presented by Di Wu, PhD, and Matthew Biggs, PhD, both assistant professors of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Each presentation will be 30 minutes long on the topics of "Transcriptional gene set tests and microbial... Read more »

Designing For Change: Women In Entrepreneurship

1789 Venture Lab 173 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill

Attend a design thinking workshop targeting the issues women face in entrepreneurship and the workplace, complete with a panel of 6 young UNC alumnae who will share their personal stories and experiences as females in entrepreneurship. The first half of the workshop will focus on discussing issues women face in entrepreneurship with the alumnae panel.... Read more »