Gillings Inclusive Excellence Trainings and Debrief Discussions

Gillings Inclusive Excellence Recorded Sessions will be posted daily. Students will also register for one virtual synchronous discussion session to attend on Friday, Aug. 13. Recorded Sessions: Monday, August 9, 2021 – Thursday, August 12, 2021 *One session released each day on event page* Debrief Sessions for First-Year/New Students of Gillings: August 11: 5:00 -... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Neurobiological Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment: Key Principles

FPG's Carolina Consortium on Human Development is pleased to welcome Dr. Mark H. Teicher as the next presenter in their Spring 2022 Series. Dr. Mark Teicher will present "Neurobiological Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment: Key Principles." Dr. Teicher is Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program at McLean Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard... Read more »

Student Success Seminar: Living from the power within

UNC Gillings Student Success Seminars focus on empowering all of our students to succeed in navigating the university environment.  The seminars are planned with the overall goal of equipping students to achieve their academic and personal goals by offering sessions geared toward enhanced learning (e.g. research talks), sessions on interpersonal development, personal responsibility, professional development,... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Discussion and Practical Discussion of Data Visualization Best Practices Using Survey Data

The purpose of this course is to present best practices for creating graphics from survey data and provide guidance for developing a critical eye that will allow attendees to best evaluate data visualizations for quality and accuracy. This short course will demonstrate how good data visualization can be used to explore relationships in survey data,... Read more »

Science and Democracy

Does politics belong in the laboratory? Is science inevitably political or does politics hinder good research? As the 12th largest research institution in North America, this discussion is paramount at UNC-Chapel Hill. On February 8th at 5:30 p.m., the UNC Program for Public Discourse and General Alumni Association bring together scientists from academia and publishing for... Read more »

Loving…YOU! The Art of Self-Acceptance

To live a fulfilling, serene, happy life, we must learn to love and accept ourselves, flaws and all. This workshop covers the basics of self-acceptance, factors that contribute to a... Read more »

Advanced Qualtrics

This training will cover advanced features in building surveys in Qualtrics. Participants must already have a university Qualtrics account and solid working knowledge of Qualtrics. Some portions will be hands-on;... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6... Read more »

Event Series Gillings Black Student Support Pod

Gillings Black Student Support Pod

The Gillings Black Student Support Pod was created to support the success of current, matriculated black students in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.  This support pod is ONLY for students who identify as Black in the Gillings School of Global Public Health.  The purpose of this support pod is to create opportunities for students to... Read more »

Gratitude: A Skill for Happier Living

Gratitude is a skill anyone can learn as an alternative to regret and fear. We can focus on the positive elements of our lives with a few simple practices. Providing... Read more »

Introduction to Python

This course aims to offer an introduction to Python with a focus on data and data analytics. It will introduce basic Python programming logic, approaches to create, store, and interact... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Graduate & Professional Student Resource Fair and Wellbeing Symposium

Great Hall, Frank Porter Graham Student Union 3103 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Meet representatives, collect resources, and learn strategies from 37+ on- and off-campus organizations with a focus on students' academic performance, professional development, and social and personal well-being. Well-being workshops will also be offered. Join for a grab-and-go lunch and enter a drawing for a grab bag of items. Registration is not required. The inaugural resource... Read more »

AID UNC Speaker Event: Watershed Restoration

Please join the AID UNC-Chapel Hill chapter virtually to learn about how watershed restoration is essential for improving biodiversity, protecting coastal land from storm surges, and allowing for access to clean drinking water! Mr. Somnath Mukherji will be addressing the watershed restoration work that has been done in the Sunderbans area of West Bengal after... Read more »

Event Series Stata

Stata

This three-day (2/21, 2/23 and 2/25) course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. Learn more and register.

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School’s Culture of Health for gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays – noon (30 minutes) Starting 2/02/2022: Mondays and Wednesdays – 5:15-6 p.m. (45 minutes-currently virtual) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

Event Series Introduction to Focus Groups

Introduction to Focus Groups

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 »

Equity Consideration for Scholars: Taking a Critical Approach to Research

In the face of increasing awareness of the need to capture the diversity of human experience, there has also been increasing concern to study and describe populations from a critical and equitable perspective. As science is itself a cultural practice, and knowledge production can perpetuate social inequalities prevalent in social systems, many times, as scholars... Read more »

Event Series Stata

Stata

This three-day (2/21, 2/23 and 2/25) course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. Learn more and register.

Signal vs Noise: Quantifying the Signal of Climate Change on US PM2.5 Air Quality in the 2050s amid the Noise from Climate Variability

All are invited to the weekly ESE In-House Seminar Series which continues on Feb. 23 at 12:20 p.m. with Surendra Kunwar presenting “Signal vs Noise: Quantifying the Signal of Climate Change on US PM2.5 Air Quality in the 2050s amid Noise from Climate Variability”. The series asks speakers to tailor their presentations for a general... Read more »