Resiliency: Bouncing Back After a Setback
Certain individuals appear to succeed against all odds. Despite severe hardships such as living through war, witnessing the death of a loved one, having a chronic illness, being a victim... Read more »
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Student Events
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 »
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 »
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 »
Census Data for Urban Studies
This workshop will provide a hands-on, guided introduction to working with US Census data using tidycensus in R. The course will focus on using geographically-referenced demographic and socioeconomic data from... Read more »
Facilitating Basics Workshop
Sign up for the Facilitating Basics Workshop on June 6 from 9 a.m. - noon. Learn fundamentals for effective teaching and engagement within the classroom - a great foundation for... Read more »
Systematic Review Workshop from the Health Sciences Library
This free, two-day workshop from the Health Sciences Library is open to all UNC-Chapel Hill or UNC Medical Center affiliates. It covers various aspects of systematic reviews, including processes and... Read more »
Emotional Intelligence
Implementing discipline over our emotional life is difficult and requires lifelong practice. Being able to choose to act or respond in a particular manner is preferable to re-acting on a... Read more »
Gillings Canvas Info Session
Join the Gillings educational technology team for a Canvas Info Session! They will host them bimonthly throughout the summer. They will cover the Canvas transition timeline, explain how to get... Read more »
Map the System 2022 Global Final
Registration is now open to the general public for the Map the System 2022 Global Final! Six finalists - chosen based on their level of insight and application of systems thinking - will advance to the public final round on June 19 from 4am-11am EST (held in London) and compete for cash prizes and audience favorite.... Read more »
Version Control and Collaboration with Git and GitHub
Participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git and Github are... Read more »
Communicating Research and Policy: Learning from Experts at Government and Research Organizations
In this Monthly Connect from the N.C. Office of Strategic Partnerships, university and state agency communications experts will share strategies for successful communication between government and research; insight about the... Read more »
Dissertation Defense: Hadi Beyhaghi
1101F McGavran-Greenberg Hall 401 Pittsboro Street, Chapel HillDoctoral candidate within the Department of Health Policy and Management Hadi Beyhaghi will defend his dissertation on June 30 from 10 a.m. - noon. The title of his dissertation is "Advanced analytics for predicting survival and facilitating precision medicine in checkpoint immunotherapy." Dissertation committee chair is Kristen Hassmiller Lich. Watch online.
Canvas Info Session
Join the Gillings Educational Technology Team for a Canvas Info Session. They will host them bimonthly throughout the summer. They will cover the Sakai to Canvas transition timeline, explain how to get started with your first course in Canvas, go over the Canvas interface, and take your questions. Learn more and register.
Using the Twitter API for Research
In this course, participants will learn to use the Twitter Application Programming Interface to retrieve tweets for use in research. We will cover R packages to connect to the Twitter API, retrieve tweets from specific users or based on keywords, and extract follower networks (i.e. who follows who). Participants should register for a Twitter developer... Read more »