Black Maternal Health Week
The Black Maternal Health Week Coordinating Committee is excited to announce an inaugural student-led week of events sponsored by the MCH department in recognition of Black Maternal Health Week 2024.... Read more »
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Reimagining Global Health Training
This seminar will focus on strategies to reimagine and decolonize global health training in the U.S and internationally. Dr. Deshira Wallace will discuss how MPH training and classroom-based learning in... Read more »
Women in Science Annual Symposium
UNC-Women in Science and our co-sponsors are honored to invite you to our 9th Annual Spring Symposium, April 12 with our distinguished keynote speaker Dr. Shirley Paddock, a Senior VP... Read more »
2024 Environmental Justice Lecture
G030 Bondurant Hall Bondurant Hall, Chapel Hill, United StatesThis year’s lecture will feature Dr. Ashley Gripper who is active in food and land justice movements and works with urban and rural growers around the country, she will be giving a talk titled Community Solutions to Food Apartheid: Bridging activism, advocacy and academia. Contact Kristen Cowan with questions.
Appetite for Life: Nourishing Communities with Good Bowls
Join the UNC Nutrition Research Institute or a virtual Appetite for Life with guest speaker Dr. Alice Ammerman. She'll discuss Good Bowls, providing nutritious food to lower-income consumers, while creating economic opportunities for local farmers and food entrepreneurs. These bowls offer healthful, locally sourced ingredients, aiming to improve environmental, economic and social well-being in communities... Read more »
Inclusive Excellence Community Conversation
133 Rosenau Hall (Joan Heckler Gillings Auditorium) Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesJoin UNC Gillings Inclusive Excellence for a discussion about the Inclusive Excellence Action Plan. To register for the in-person session, visit https://tinyurl.com/26ubz4cn. The link for theo nline session is: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5MV4-dO2TW6X3owUdA6oVA Contact Brandon Tweedy with questions.
ACLU of NC Short Film Premiere
The Varsity Theater Chapel HillThe ACLU of NC is hosting a premiere of our new short film, North Carolina's Abortion Story, on April 18th at 7PM at Varsity Theater in Chapel Hill. The 10-minute... Read more »
Odum Institute: Detecting Change in Within-Person Processes
This course will be offered ONLINE. It will not be recorded as there are in-class activities. This is a 2 hour course.Behavioral researchers are often interested in change within-persons over time... Read more »
Gillings April Movement Challenge
The Gillings Student Mental Health and Well-being Task Force is hosting a movement challenge for the month of April with 4 weekly challenges - plus raffle prizes with Gilling's swag and wellbeing items for people who participate! Join here: https://forms.gle/ssDFrspqt4pNCC3D8 It's not too late to join, so feel free to share the registration form with... Read more »
Advanced Statistical Machine Learning
This course will cover a number of unsupervised learning techniques for finding patterns and associations in Big Data. These include dimension reduction techniques such as principal components analysis and non-negative matrix factorization, clustering analysis and significance analysis, and network analysis with graphical models. The main emphasis will be on the analysis of real data sets... Read more »
Lecture: The Changing Landscape of HIV in Vietnam
Caroilna Asia Center 301 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, United StatesThe Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control of the Ministry of Health has led the effort to improve HIV care and prevention in Vietnam, including overseeing the adjustments necessary for a changing epidemic. In addition to the governmental response, Hanoi Medical University has been instrumental in leading research to support the HIV response in Vietnam. Lessons... Read more »
Webinar on Updates and Best Practices for the NIH Policy on Foreign Subrecipient Reporting Requirements
Faculty and Staff engaged in research are invited to come learn more about the updates to the NIH policy on foreign sub-awardee reporting, how to comply and how it may affect their research teams. Contact Jaime O'Brien with questions.
Google Earth Engine for Urban Studies
This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. This hands-on course will focus on the use of Google Earth Engine (GEE) for urban research applications. It will demonstrate how free and open-source satellite imagery can be utilized to map urban areas and urbanization trends... Read more »
Introduction to Focus Groups
Focus groups are commonly used to capture rich information about attitudes and beliefs. This class will prepare prospective students to organize and moderate focus groups. Students will learn the most appropriate uses of focus groups, how to segment and recruit audiences, how to develop a moderator’s guide, and how to moderate focus groups. The class... Read more »
UNC Annual Carolina Blood Drive
Dean E. Smith CenterThe Employee Forum invites the Carolina community to the 36th annual Carolina Blood Drive, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in the Smith Center. For 36 years, the... Read more »