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Clean Tech Summit and Career Fair

William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, 100 Friday Center Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

UNC will host its 6th annual UNC Clean Tech Summit on Thursday, February 28, 2019 – Friday, March 1, 2019 at UNC’s Friday Center. The event will highlight the latest innovations, trends and challenges in the clean technology industry and how North Carolina is playing a key role in leading the way to a global... Read more »

NC Refugee Health Forum

Moses H. Cone Hospital Greensboro, NC, United States

This knowledge-based conference will provide an in-depth review of evidence-based care of refugee patients and families to improve outcomes on their path towards better health and citizenship. The theme this year will be Challenges and Resilience. Keynote speaker, Dr. Emily Jentes, PhD, MPH, Domestic Team Lead for the Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch of... Read more »

Health Policy Day

133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Health Policy Day will consist of Dr. DeSalvo's keynote address, a panel of North Carolina public health professionals and a discussion about how one local health system is addressing food access, housing and more. Lunch will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by Academy Health. Please... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Just Walk!

Activity: Just Walk!

Entrance, McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Pittsboro St. side) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 »

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Mindful Relaxation

Activity: Mindful Relaxation

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 »

Victor J. Dzau Distinguished Lecture in Global Health

Great Hall, Trent Semans Center 8 Searle Center Dr., Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

As the world urbanizes, megacities present a unique opportunity for understanding the future of planetary health. Urbanization brings both health benefits and threats to megacities, and innovative interventions are being... Read more »

Undocucarolina Lecture Series

University Room, Hyde Hall 176 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The UNC DAVA and Undocumented Resource Team in collaboration with the UNC/DUKE Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies presents the Undocucarolina Distinguished Lecture Series. This talk will feature Dr.... Read more »

IVB/NHI Spring Research Symposium

The Carolina Club, George Watts Hill Alumni Center 150 Stadium Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The IVB/NHI Spring Research Symposium highlights research from graduate students, postdocs, and medical fellows within the cardiovascular community at UNC and the greater Chapel Hill area and promotes multi-disciplinary collaborative... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Mindful Relaxation

Activity: Mindful Relaxation

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 »

Event Series Activity: Just Walk!

Activity: Just Walk!

Entrance, McGavran-Greenberg Hall (Pittsboro St. side) McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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.... Read more »

Synthetic membranes: The environmental engineer’s Swiss army knife – ENVR 400 in-house seminar

2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Mikayla Armstrong, environmental sciences and engineering doctoral student, will present "Synthetic Membranes: The Environmental Engineer's Swiss Army Knife," on March 6 in 2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall. The event is part of the ENVR 400 in-house seminar series. Learn more here. Questions? Contact Dr. Howard Weinberg.

The Perfect Membrane: ENVR 400 In-house Seminar

2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall McGavran-Greenberg Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Mikayla Armstrong, doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Engineering, will present this week’s seminar in the department’s Spring 2019 series. Armstrong’s talk is titled, “Pursuing the perfect membrane: Strategies to decrease pollutant passage.” Abstract: Synthetic membranes are an attractive technology to implement at interfaces between humans and the environment because their implementation is relatively... Read more »

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 »

Event Series Activity: Yoga

Activity: Yoga

0003/0004 Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 »

Entrepreneurs in Nutrition and Health

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health alumnus and entrepreneur Richard Kelly, BSPH, MBA, will share the story of the founding of Nutriati, a company focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative plant-based ingredients. This event is sponsored by the Department of Nutrition. Please contact Anne Belote if you have any questions.

BIOS Seminar: R for Big Data Analysis

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Auditorium (0001 Michael Hooker Research Center) Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Chuanhai Liu, PhD, professor of statistics at Purdue University, will present this week's biostatistics seminar titled, "A Multithreaded and Distributed R for Big Data Analysis." Abstract: The computer software R is one of the most popular computing tools for data analysis. In the past decade or so, tremendous efforts have been made to make R useful for... Read more »

Social Media & Public Health Seminar

305 Carroll Hall

Join the UNC School of Media and Journalism for a seminar titled "Using social media to inform public health and policy: promises and pitfalls." The seminar will be led by Jon-Patrick Allem, PhD, assistant professor of Research Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His work focuses on developing cutting edge methodologies... Read more »

CUGH Annual Conference

Chicago Hilton Hotel 720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States

The Consortium of Universities for Global Health's (CUGH) 10th annual conference's theme is, Translation and Implementation for Impact in Global Health. The meeting will bring together leaders across a broad range of areas to share with us what we can do to overcome the knowledge-needs gap, scale up evidence-based solutions and impact public policies so... Read more »

Graduate Research and Policy Expo

Sonja Haynes Stone Center 150 South Rd., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Graduate Research and Policy Expo (GRaPE) is a premier academic research conference hosted by the Graduate and Professional Student Federation and the Science Policy Advocacy Group. Register by February 24 at the website.

Event Series Zoom Training

Zoom Training

230 Rosenau Hall (Mayes Center) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Gillings AV Services office would like to invite you or your department to the remaining  Zoom training opportunities for the semester.   Feel free to bring your lunch and your device to join us for one or more workshops for an overview of the campus' ZOOM remote conferencing tool.  Participants will learn basic meeting functions... Read more »