Employee Appreciation Day

UNC Chapel Hill

Carolina Blue is the color of appreciating YOU. Attend for a fun-filled day of celebration! This year’s event will include: Department & Local Business Fair Food Live Entertainment Carnival Games Caricature Artist Giveaways Student Store sales and discounts

Event Series Activity: Just Walk!

Activity: Just Walk!

Entrance, McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Pittsboro St. side) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 »

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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.

Event Series Activity: Mindful Relaxation

Activity: Mindful Relaxation

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 as you are. Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health... Read more »

DSS Wellness Series: Navigating Conflict

Graduate Student Center 211-A W Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

DSS Wellness Series: Navigating Conflict Monday, October 21 @ 1-2:30 pm Graduate Student Center, 211A West Cameron Ave What do you do when you disagree with your partner, your friend or your advisor? Do you dig your heels in? Do you run away? Do you stop in your tracks? Does it matter if there’s a... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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.

Event Series Activity: Just Walk!

Activity: Just Walk!

Entrance, McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Pittsboro St. side) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 »

Event Series Activity: Mindful Relaxation

Activity: Mindful Relaxation

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 as you are. Please contact Penny Slade-Sawyer with any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health... Read more »

Rethinking Graduate Admissions: Managing Implicit Bias and Implementing Holistic Review

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

This workshop will provide space to engage and explore how to be more thoughtful about who and how we recruit, admit, and retain student cohorts. Implicit bias will be introduced and participants will discuss strategies for minimizing bias during the admissions process. The target audience for this event is faculty and staff involved in the... Read more »

UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Info Session

2005 Michael Hooker Research Center (William L. Roper Conference Room) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, United States

Come learn more about this 10-week paid summer fellowship with IntraHealth International just for UNC Gillings graduate students! A representative from IntraHealth will be here to answer all your questions. Program description and applications are now available: https://sph.unc.edu/global-health/ggg-internships-and-funding/. When: Wednesday, October 23 & Friday, October 25 Where: 2005 Michael Hooker Research Center (both days) Time:... Read more »

Gut Microbiota: ENVR 400 In-house Seminar

235 Rosenau Hall Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Liang Chi, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Fall 2019 series. Dodds’s talk is titled,"How Gut Microbiota Plays a Role in Arsenic Toxicity?" Learn more here. Please contact Dr. Howard Weinberg, howard_weinberg@unc.edu, if you have any questions.

Being Public and Engaging Policy Seminar

Davis Library 3010

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 lecture, Dr. Ray will provide strategies for interacting with journalists, policymakers, and bureaucrats. In addition to publishing over 50 books, articles, and book chapters, Ray has given presentations... Read more »

Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Seminar

321 MacNider Hall, UNC School of Medicine 321 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Carolina Seminars will present "Addressing Perinatal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders through Perinatal Psychiatry Access Programs" as part of the North Carolina Maternal Behavioral Health Collaborative’s Carolina Seminar Series. Presenters: Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, FACLP (Medical Director of MCPAP for Moms) Tiffany A. Moore Simas, MD, MPH, MEd, FACOG (Director of Engagement of... Read more »