Do you ever wonder how some researchers can understand technical seminar talks and ask inquisitive questions? You probably never formally learned how to effectively listen and evaluate important technical information from seminar speakers. Like many others, you likely passively learned techniques from watching faculty ask questions, and yet never harnessed a repeatable strategy to quickly... Read more »
Academics are increasingly asked to engage with public actors from policymakers to journalists. Rarely, however, are academics given any guidance or strategies for doing so. In this workshop, Dr. Rashawn Ray will provide strategies for interacting with journalists, policymakers, and bureaucrats. Participants will learn best practices for amplifying their research to broader publics, as well... Read more »
This course will introduce you to extracting structured data from web pages, also known as “scraping” the pages. We will use the R programming language. The first portion of the course will introduce basic HTML, CSS selectors, Developer Tools in Google Chrome, and the R packages used for web scraping. The second portion will consist... Read more »
Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program. For our upcoming event, we will be welcoming Dr.... Read more »
Qualtrics allows users to build complex surveys, distribute them, and analyze the responses all from one place. In this course, we will cover basic Qualtrics functions including creating some of the most common question types, programming display and skip logic, an introduction to “survey flow”, distributing surveys with an anonymous link vs survey mailer, creating... Read more »
This course will provide participants with a broad overview of considerations and approaches for capturing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). This includes examining the current best practices and approaches,... Read more »
Join the Undergraduate Consulting Club (UCC) for a day of networking with 10+ firms and attend workshops to help you prepare for recruiting, interviewing, and consulting. The day will be split into two tracks—an exploratory track for first-years/sophomores and a personalized networking track for juniors/seniors. Bootcamp is a great opportunity for learning about your interests... Read more »
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Please join us for "Community-Based Primary Health Care in Low Resource Areas," a panel discussion with speakers from Curamericas Global. Contact Caroline McKay with questions.
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Gillings on the Ground (GoG), is a free, six-week virtual "mini-course" hosted by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Through weekly sessions with community partners and UNC faculty... Read more »
The Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium (INSS) is an annual translational nutrition science conference. This conference will build on the dialogue that began in their first three symposia to develop best practices for translational nutrition science and to generate ideas for proposals and collaborative projects, which will lead public health, therapeutic and clinical efforts to reduce obesity and its... Read more »
We are excited to be hosting the 2023 Undergraduate Business Symposium – the signature career development and networking event of the year! Join us this September to have the opportunity... Read more »
This workshop will present proven strategies for mapping out a dissertation completion plan in any discipline. Workshop participants will learn how to develop relational success with the dissertation chair and... Read more »
Although graduate school teaches you many things, many Ph.D. students complete their dissertations having never been fully trained in academic publishing. How does academic publishing actually work? Where should you... Read more »
