Winter Commencement
Winter Commencement will be held at 2 p.m. on December 15 at the Dean E. Smith Center. For full details, visit the UNC Winter Commencement page.
Winter Commencement will be held at 2 p.m. on December 15 at the Dean E. Smith Center. For full details, visit the UNC Winter Commencement page.
Join colleagues for a quick walk around the neighborhood. Meet at the Pittsboro Street entrance of McGavran-Greenberg Hall for this fun Culture of Health exercise opportunity. Bad weather? No problem. The leader will find an indoor route! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one... Read more »
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... Read more »
All Gillings School students, faculty and staff are invited to join this Culture of Health activity for a half-hour of calm breathing and mind decluttering. Come when you can and... Read more »
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.
The Equity in Teaching Institute (EqT), hosted by the Center for Faculty Excellence, takes place over two days. During that time, participants will reflect on who students are, how courses can equitably meet students’ needs, and what equity in teaching means. Discussions will center the needs of students marginalized because of their race, sexual and gender identities,... Read more »
Join colleagues for a quick walk around the neighborhood. Meet at the Pittsboro Street entrance of McGavran-Greenberg Hall for this fun Culture of Health exercise opportunity. Bad weather? No problem. The leader will find an indoor route! Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one... Read more »
All Gillings School students, faculty and staff are invited to join this Culture of Health activity for a half-hour of calm breathing and mind decluttering. Come when you can and... Read more »
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.
The Equity in Teaching Institute (EqT), hosted by the Center for Faculty Excellence, takes place over two days. During that time, participants will reflect on who students are, how courses can equitably... Read more »
The Cook Ross Everyday Bias Training will be facilitated by Kauline Cipriani, PhD, assistant dean for inclusive excellence. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of unconscious bias and how unconscious (implicit) biases develop, influence perceptions and decision making, and impact institutional diversity and inclusion efforts. Registration required.
On Friday, January 10, the Add Health Team will present “Add Health Wave V: New Directions, New Data” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. The... Read more »
This is a hands-on introductory workshop. Participants will create a basic survey, add display and skip logic, and use content validation, piped text, and embedded data. We will create a contact list for distributing survey invitations, and overview the elements of Survey Flow. We will create “chained” surveys to collect personal information from participants that... Read more »
The Gillings School's Culture of Health invites you to a celebration for a healthy new year. There will be free healthy dietary information and snacks! Plus walking maps and information... Read more »
The NC Oral Health Collaborative: Innovations in Partnerships will present an Oral Health Lunch & Learn with Zachary Brian, DMD, MPH. January 14, 2020 1101F McGavran-Greenberg Hall 11:45 a.m. -... Read more »
The MedUNCedoos is the a cappella group for the UNC Allied Health Sciences, including UNC School of Medicine, health professions schools and grad programs! No experience is necessary to audition. They meet once a week for two hours, learn a variety of songs (Disney, Broadway, pop, choral), and perform at a few school events throughout... Read more »
The Minority Student Caucus will hold an interest meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 15 in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium from 5-6 p.m. Please contact minoritystudentcaucus@gmail.com with any questions.
Do you or your friends have an innovative idea and are ready to turn it into a prototype? UNC’s annual two-week Makeathon (Jan. 26-Feb. 9) accelerates teams’ innovative ideas into physical and digital prototypes. Teams will have special access to on-campus maker spaces, app labs, workshops, and expert mentors to design, reiterate, and enhance their... Read more »
As we start another successful semester of classes, the Gillings Audiovisual (AV) Services team will hold classroom technology orientations to familiarize users with room operations. AV staff will provide overviews and demonstrations on how to use the media equipment in four levels of classroom spaces. These orientations are set up primarily for instructors, teacher assistants and program... Read more »
As we start another successful semester of classes, the Gillings Audiovisual (AV) Services team will hold classroom technology orientations to familiarize users with room operations. AV staff will provide overviews and demonstrations on how to use the media equipment in four levels of classroom spaces. These orientations are set up primarily for instructors, teacher assistants and program... Read more »
Get tips and tricks for resume-writing with Camille Mason, Career Services Coordinator. Thursday, January 16 5-6:15 p.m. 230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center)
Implementation Science Student Group (ISSG) leadership team would like to invite you to join our spring coffee hour meeting which you will learn more about Implementation Science, share interesting research ideas and build up a network in the field of Implementation Science. We will host this event at the Backbar (TOPO) on January 16 from... Read more »
Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour training course designed to give members of the public key skills to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing... 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 »
As we start another successful semester of classes, the Gillings Audiovisual (AV) Services team will hold classroom technology orientations to familiarize users with room operations. AV staff will provide overviews and demonstrations on how to use the media equipment in four levels of classroom spaces. These orientations are set up primarily for instructors, teacher assistants and program... Read more »
Myron Cohen, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health and Medical Affairs; the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology; and the Director of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.... Read more »
As we start another successful semester of classes, the Gillings Audiovisual (AV) Services team will hold classroom technology orientations to familiarize users with room operations. AV staff will provide overviews and demonstrations on how to use the media equipment in four levels of classroom spaces. These orientations are set up primarily for instructors, teacher assistants and program... Read more »
Coming Full Circle: 30 Years of Advancing the Field of Nutrition During Pregnancy Save the date and join us for a lecture event with Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD, alumna and... Read more »
The University will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. UNC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration is part of a campus-wide initiative to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his legacy, and his ideals. Carolina began its celebrations of Dr. King’s life and legacy in 1983, long before there was a federal holiday. UNC is... Read more »
A conversation with Nandita Mani and Sarah Wright about the cost of scholarly information and the implications for UNC-Chapel Hill. In February, the University of California canceled its contract with Elsevier... Read more »
The Hurricane Simulation is in partnership with the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice Student Executive Committee. The simulation will be followed by small group discussions with other health professional students to understand how your profession could be affected by these natural disasters and how these natural disasters and how these natural disasters impact the... Read more »
Interested in expanding your peer network? Check out GradMinds! The goal of GradMinds is to provide an environment for brainstorming, learning, accountability, support, and to sharpen your skill sets for... Read more »
Dr. Aaron Salzberg, director of the Water Institute at UNC, will present on "Damned if You Do and Dammed if You Don’t – A Story of Politics, Water, and Denial... Read more »
Despite the known benefits of early autism diagnosis, the average age in the U.S. is still around 4 years old. Research suggests that rural children may be diagnosed later than... Read more »
Implementation Science Student Group (ISSG) will host a Fireside Chat and presentation on using implementation theory to drive practice and evaluation in the Ghana Obstetric Triage Implementation Project. The chat... Read more »
Tickets for the MLK Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony, to be held Jan. 22, 7-9 p.m. at Memorial Hall, are now available. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, author, radio host and... Read more »
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 »
Dr. Peter D. Hoff is a Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University and is visiting Biostatistics to talk about "Smaller p-values and shorter confidence intervals via information sharing." Learn... Read more »
Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour training course designed to give members of the public key skills to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing... Read more »
The Carolina Center for Public Service and other partners are hosting the Connect, Engage, Transform: Rural Community Partnerships conference to bring together stakeholders from North Carolina’s rural communities and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to highlight and encourage authentic, effective and sustainable collaborations for the public good. The conference will feature keynote... Read more »
Joseph Rodriguez, PhD Investigator, NIEHS Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory / Single Cell Dynamics Group Gene regulation is complex, involving the coordination of hundreds of proteins, including chromatin remodelers,... Read more »
Rachel Margolis will present “The Effects of Gender Equality-Focused Parental Benefits on Union Stability” as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Rachel Margolis is an associate... Read more »