The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Joanna Lee Williams as the second speaker in their 2020-2021 distinguished lecture series Fostering Resilience for Our Children: From Birth Through Adolescence. The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth Joanna Lee Williams, PhD, is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Applied... Read more »

Finding Your Zone of Genius

Melissa Carrier, Director of UNC Social Innovation, will facilitate an activity around the four different zones of function that Gay Hendricks identified in his book, The Big Leap.  Dr. Tierney Bates, Interim Executive Director of University Career Services and sought-after speaker and facilitator in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, fundraising and career coaching... Read more »

Wind Down Wednesdays: Making Healthy Food Choices

Wind Down Wednesday is a virtual mental fitness series created to help students to maintain a healthy school-life balance. Join professionals in Public Health and Mental Health invited by Associate Dean for Student Affairs- Charletta Sims Evans to coach current students on keeping your stress and anxiety low during the Fall semester. Speaker: Jonathan Earnest... Read more »

UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Program Info Session

UNC-IntraHealth Summer Fellows Program will be holding two virtual information sessions at noon and 5 p.m. on Oct. 28 for Gillings first-year master's students and current doctoral students to learn more about the Fellows program. This is a funded 10-week fellowship during the summer. A representative from IntraHealth and previous fellows will be in attendance... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for three 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - noon (30 minutes) Wednesdays - 5:15 p.m. (45 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would like to join a class.

How to Be an Antiracist: A Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi will join an audience live on Zoom for a moderated discussion of antiracism with UNC School of Social Work faculty members Travis Albritton and Tonya Van Deinse, followed by a Q&A session with questions submitted by audience members via Zoom chat. Note: The host is not permitted to record this event for... Read more »

COVID-19 and Beyond: Cities on the Front Lines of a Healthier Future

On Thursday, October 29, the Partnership for Healthy Cities—supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the World Health Organization and Vital Strategies—is holding its first discussion to feature the voices of global health leaders and leading mayors on the urban response to COVID-19. The conversation will highlight how city leaders are innovating locally and collaborating globally to guide us through the pandemic toward... Read more »

Discovering how complex traits are regulated using unsupervised learning

Barbara E. Engelhardt, an associate professor, joined the Princeton Computer Science Department in 2014 from Duke University, where she had been an assistant professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Statistical Sciences. Her research interests are Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, statistical genetics, computational biology, quantitative genetics and she received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2016.... Read more »

Gillings Pet Lovers Pod – Halloween Party

Please come to the Gillings School Pet Lovers Halloween party. People and pets are invited to dress up and have fun. Everyone is welcome! You don't need a pet or a costume to enjoy the event. Join the fun.

The UNC COVID-19 Household Transmission Study (Co-HOST)

Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR, is an assistant professor of medicine in UNC's Division of Infectious Diseases. She trained in UNC's ID fellowship at UNC and joined the faculty in 2013. Before COVID, she was pursuing clinical and translational studies on drug-resistant malaria and malaria transmission in Cambodia and Tanzania. In April 2020 she launched Co-HOST,... Read more »

Virtual Safe Zone Training

The Standard Safe Zone is designed to introduce concepts, terminology and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression. Registration required. Flyer Contact chrisana@live.unc.edu