Week of Events
Pearl Hacks 2020
Ever wanted to make an app, game, or website? Come #DiveIntoPearlHacks! Pearl Hacks is a beginner-friendly hackathon Feb 21-23 focused on empowering female and non-binary identifying students. "Hackathon" may sound a little intimidating, but it's really just an "invention marathon" - where you can collaborate with others to make an amazing project in just 24... Read more »
Pearl Hacks 2020
Ever wanted to make an app, game, or website? Come #DiveIntoPearlHacks! Pearl Hacks is a beginner-friendly hackathon Feb 21-23 focused on empowering female and non-binary identifying students. "Hackathon" may sound a little intimidating, but it's really just an "invention marathon" - where you can collaborate with others to make an amazing project in just 24... Read more »
MPH@UNC Immersions: Building Skills and Relationships for a Lifetime
All current MPH@UNC students, including those starting the program in January 2020, are invited to join us at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health for the Spring 2020 immersion experience! Immersions for MPH@UNC represent an opportunity for students to join other students, Gillings School faculty members and alumni to engage in collaborative learning... Read more »
Logisitic Regression
Logisitic Regression
This short course provides an introduction to logistic regression. Model specification, identification, estimation, hypothesis-testing, and interpretation of results are covered. Software to estimate these models is discussed, but not demonstrated.... Read more »
Improving Prediction of Transdermal Uptake of Semi-Volatile Organic Chemicals from Consumer Products
Improving Prediction of Transdermal Uptake of Semi-Volatile Organic Chemicals from Consumer Products
Azin Eftekhari, doctoral student in environmental sciences and engineering, will present on "Improving Prediction of Transdermal Uptake of Semi-Volatile Organic Chemicals from Consumer Products." This talk is part of the... Read more »
Third Annual UNC Epidemiology Career Panel
Third Annual UNC Epidemiology Career Panel
The UNC Epidemiology Career Panel is multidisciplinary and geared towards current Masters and Doctoral students in all departments in Gillings as well as in the School of Medicine and School... Read more »
Social Status and Social Behavior in Peer Networks: A Developmental Perspective
Social Status and Social Behavior in Peer Networks: A Developmental Perspective
FPG Lecture Series Welcomes Dr. Antonius H. N. (Toon) Cillessen Children and adolescents spend a significant amount of time each day in the company of peers. Together with their peers,... Read more »
Designing Web Surveys
Designing Web Surveys
The focus of this course is on the design of web survey instruments, appropriate choice and design of input tools, address layout and formatting of the instrument, including alignment of... Read more »
HAVEN Training
HAVEN Training
HAVEN (Helping Advocates for Violence Ending Now) provides students, faculty, staff and postdoctoral fellows with tools to be an ally to someone who has experienced sexual or interpersonal (relationship) violence... Read more »
Development of Bayesian Software in SAS
Development of Bayesian Software in SAS
Dr. Chen of the SAS Institute in Raleigh will talk about the "Development of Bayesian Software in SAS." Dr. Chen manages the Advanced Statistical Methods group in SAS and is... Read more »
Microbial Nutrition in the Mammalian Gut
Microbial Nutrition in the Mammalian Gut
Dr. Lawrence David has expertise in ecology, genomics, human diet, and fecal biomarkers. He received a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia and a graduate degree in Computational &... Read more »
Global Health Happy Hour
Global Health Happy Hour
Hosted once a month on a Thursday from 5:00-7:00 pm, the goal of Global Health Happy Hour is to continue building strong connections and promote idea-sharing across the Triangle’s diverse global... Read more »
41st Annual Minority Health Conference
41st Annual Minority Health Conference
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Minority Health Conference — the largest and longest-running student-led health conference in the country — aims to raise awareness around minority health... Read more »
PhD Dissertation Defense: Christine Kim
PhD Dissertation Defense: Christine Kim
On Feb. 28 at 11 a.m. in 123 Rosenau Hall, Christine Kim will defend her dissertation research entitled, "Spatial access, coverage, and utilization of maternal health services in Afghanistan, 2010-2015."
Guest Lecture: Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology of Glioma
Guest Lecture: Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology of Glioma
Melissa Bondy, PhD, Chair of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University, will speak as the Michael O'Malley Guest Lecturer on February 28 at 1pm in the UNC Lineberger Cancer... Read more »