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 due to unacceptable license terms and subscription costs. Elsevier is the world's largest publisher of scholarly journals. The terms by which it sells content to... 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 future professional endeavors. Through GradMinds, participants will have the opportunity to be a part of an interdisciplinary peer network, get access to useful resources and... 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 (or was it the Nile?).” This talk is part of the ENVR 400 In-House Seminar Series.

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 those living in urban areas, but the reasons for this disparity are not well described using traditional methods of rural classification. Using a state-wide payer... 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 will be led by Prof. Rohit Ramaswamy from the Public Health Leadership Program and Caitlin Williams, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Maternal and... 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 Georgetown University sociology professor, will deliver the keynote and the Unsung Heroes Awards and MLK Scholarship Awards will be presented. Dr. Dyson’s pioneering scholarship has... 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... 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 more: https://pdhoff.github.io/

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 a mental health crisis. This is a two-part training and takes place Friday, January 17th for the first part and Friday, January 24th for the... 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 »

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 professor in the sociology department at the University of Western Ontario, where she has worked since her PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University... 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, enhancer RNA and chromosome looping. The estrogen response has served as a model of gene regulation due in part to its rapid and extensive induction.... Read more »