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. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
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, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule... Read more »
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Culture of Health team for free yoga classes. Beginners are welcome and mats are provided!
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, mps3@email.unc.edu, if you have any questions. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule... Read more »
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. Leader Penny Slade-Sawyer will find an indoor route! Contact Penny with any questions at mps3@email.unc.edu. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health.... Read more »
Gina Chowa, PhD, MSW, associate dean for global engagement and associate professor at the UNC School of Social Work, will be presenting a talk titled "Exploring the Effects of an Integrated Approach to Improving Family Economic Security and Supporting Child Development." Dr. Chowa conducts research on global social development, particularly the intersection of economic security,... Read more »
UNC Global will sponsor a Passport Drive, April 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the 4th floor of the FedEx Global Education Center. UNC Global hosts officials from the U.S. Department of State and a photographer to make first-time passport applications and renewals easy. This event is open to students, faculty and staff, as well... Read more »
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. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
Michele R. Forman, PhD, FACE, is a distinguished professor and the department head in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University — and an accomplished graduate of the UNC... Read more »
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. Learn more about our School’s dedication to a culture of health. Schedule one-one-one wellness appointments, find health recipes and see all... Read more »
Phillips Ambassador and Gillings School undergraduate, Will Blanks, will be joined by the deans of admission from National University of Singapore (NUS) and Duke-NUS Medical School to discuss the benefits of international medical education. Will will also speak about his experience working in a lab at NUS as a Phillips Ambassador. Light refreshments will be... Read more »
Join Gillings School EQUITY concentration faculty for an interactive presentation on the nature and impact of structural racism and what it looks like across institutions. The Groundwater Approach teaches how to use data to measure the systemic impact of racism and to track institutional change. This workshop will be offered for faculty and staff. Please register online. This... Read more »
The purpose of this course, "Discussion and Practical Application of Data Visualization Best Practices using Survey Data", is to present best practices for creating graphics from survey data and provide guidance for developing a critical eye that will allow attendees to best evaluate data visualizations for quality and accuracy. This course will demonstrate how good... Read more »
Patricia A. Hunt will present a seminar titled, "Making Error While Making Gametes." Patricia A. Hunt is Meyer Distinguished Professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University. Her primary research interest lies in human aneuploidy, mammalian germ cells and meiosis. She is best known for showing the adversary effect of Bisphenol A... Read more »
Stephen R. Cole, PhD, professor of epidemiology at the Gillings School, will present a talk on, "Bounds and Estimators for the Risk Function." Dr. Cole works to build accurate and impactful knowledge, particularly population-health (epidemiologic) knowledge. He is interested in study designs and analyses that accurately estimate parameters of central interest to population-health scientists, such... Read more »
Save the date for the UNC Tobacco Treatment and Weight Management Programs' 4th Annual Fundraiser. The event will be held at NAMU Restaurant in Durham. Dan Ariely, a renowned speaker and behavioral economist, will speak about “Harnessing Motivation to Improve Health”. Please attend to help people across North Carolina achieve a healthy weight and become... Read more »
