Week of Events
Activity: Just Walk!
Activity: Just Walk!
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.... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
Activity: Yoga
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... Read more »
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
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 »
Victor J. Dzau Distinguished Lecture in Global Health
Victor J. Dzau Distinguished Lecture in Global Health
As the world urbanizes, megacities present a unique opportunity for understanding the future of planetary health. Urbanization brings both health benefits and threats to megacities, and innovative interventions are being... Read more »
Undocucarolina Lecture Series
Undocucarolina Lecture Series
The UNC DAVA and Undocumented Resource Team in collaboration with the UNC/DUKE Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies presents the Undocucarolina Distinguished Lecture Series. This talk will feature Dr.... Read more »
IVB/NHI Spring Research Symposium
IVB/NHI Spring Research Symposium
The IVB/NHI Spring Research Symposium highlights research from graduate students, postdocs, and medical fellows within the cardiovascular community at UNC and the greater Chapel Hill area and promotes multi-disciplinary collaborative... Read more »
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
Activity: Mindful Relaxation
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 »
Activity: Just Walk!
Activity: Just Walk!
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.... Read more »
The Perfect Membrane: ENVR 400 In-house Seminar
The Perfect Membrane: ENVR 400 In-house Seminar
Mikayla Armstrong, doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Armstrong’s talk is titled, “Pursuing the perfect... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
Activity: Yoga
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... Read more »
Activity: Yoga
Activity: Yoga
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... Read more »
Entrepreneurs in Nutrition and Health
Entrepreneurs in Nutrition and Health
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumnus and entrepreneur Richard Kelly, BSPH, MBA, will share the story of the founding of Nutriati, a company focused on the research, development and... Read more »
BIOS Seminar: R for Big Data Analysis
BIOS Seminar: R for Big Data Analysis
Chuanhai Liu, PhD, professor of statistics at Purdue University, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "A Multithreaded and Distributed R for Big Data Analysis." Abstract: The computer software R is one of the most popular computing tools for data analysis. In the past decade or so, tremendous efforts have been made to make R useful for... Read more »
Social Media & Public Health Seminar
Social Media & Public Health Seminar
Join the UNC School of Media and Journalism for a seminar titled "Using social media to inform public health and policy: promises and pitfalls." The seminar will be led by Jon-Patrick Allem, PhD, assistant professor of Research Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His work focuses on developing cutting edge methodologies... Read more »
Graduate Research and Policy Expo
Graduate Research and Policy Expo
Graduate Research and Policy Expo (GRaPE) is a premier academic research conference hosted by the Graduate and Professional Student Federation and the Science Policy Advocacy Group. Register by February 24 at the website.
Zoom Training
Zoom Training
The Gillings AV Services office would like to invite you or your department to the remaining Zoom training opportunities for the semester. Feel free to bring your lunch and your device to join us for one or more workshops for an overview of the campus' ZOOM remote conferencing tool. Participants will learn basic meeting functions... Read more »
The Beautiful Brain: Connections Between Art and Science
The Beautiful Brain: Connections Between Art and Science
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s discoveries paved the way for remarkable breakthroughs in neuroscience in the early 20th century. Join the Ackland Art Museum for an intriguing discussion exploring questions about the brain, creativity, current developments in neuroscience, and the influence of sociocultural factors on the brain and human behavior. Co-presented by Stigma Free Carolina. Free... Read more »