Preparing for the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Road Tour

The Small Business and Technology Development Center's (SBTDC) Technology Commercialization Team will host a pre-Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Week in the Southeast virtual workshop to help maximize the rare opportunity to virtually meet with SBIR program managers. The SBTDC workshop is complimentary and will cover the following topics: How SBIR/Small Business Technology Transfer programs... Read more »

Methods for Cross-Cultural Research

This online course is focused on designing & implementing social science research cross-culturally, with a particular emphasis on collecting interview data. Participants will consider different definitions of culture, how research is itself a cultural practice, what perspectives and analytical approaches can be employed in cross-cultural research, as well as best practices in designing and implementing... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for three 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - 5:15 p.m. (45 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Water the Dam Risks (of Infrastructure Planning for Water Utilities)?

All are invited to the weekly Environmental Sciences and Engineering In-House Seminar Series which continues with David Gorelick presenting “Water the Dam Risks (of Infrastructure Planning for Water Utilities)?” The series asks speakers to tailor their presentation for a general audience so that all participants benefit. For more details, including how to join, view the... Read more »

2020 Harry Guess Memorial Lecture – Sonia Hernández-Díaz – Drug Safety in Pregnancy: Challenges and Solutions in the Modern Era of Pharmacoepidemiology

Harry Guess Memorial Lecture Since 2008, the UNC International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology chapter has sponsored the Harry Guess Memorial Lecture. This lecture series was conceived of by UNC students to honor Dr. Guess, a man who built the pharmacoepidemiology program here, to remember his outstanding dedication to teaching and mentoring. Speaker: Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH,... Read more »

Wind Down Wednesdays: Harnessing Your Strengthes and Resilience

Wind Down Wednesday is a virtual mental fitness series created to help students to maintain a healthy school-life balance. Join professionals in Public Health and Mental Health invited by Associate Dean for Student Affairs- Charletta Sims Evans to coach current students on keeping your stress and anxiety low during the Fall semester. Speaker: Candice Fisher... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for three 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - 5:15 p.m. (45 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Biostatistics Seminar: Reframing Proportional-Hazards Modeling for Large Time-to-Event Datasets with Applications to Deep Learning

We are welcoming Dr. Simon, who will talk about "Reframing proportional-hazards modeling for large time-to-event datasets with applications to deep learning." Dr. Simon works on machine learning (including penalized regression and classification), efficient algorithms in high dimensional spaces, shrinkage estimation and clinical trial design. The techniques he develops are directed at problems in biology and... Read more »