Nutrition Seminar: Precision, Personalized, and Global Nutrition: Why, What, and How?

Precision, Personalized, and Global Nutrition: Why, What, and How? The annual Department of Nutrition and UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center seminar series will focus on a variety of topics, including: The mechanisms by which coagulation factors control aspects of diet-induced obesity Implicit biases and what can we do to improve diversity and inclusion in the... Read more »

Event Series Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga

Join the Gillings School's Culture of Health for 30-minute gentle yoga online classes at the following times: Gentle Yoga Mondays - noon (30 minutes) Please contact rcerny@email.unc.edu if you would... Read more »

Text Analysis Using R

This 3-day workshop will introduce participants to the basics of text analysis in R. Participants will develop the skills and understanding necessary to collect text data from a variety of... Read more »

Dr. Barbara Rogoff presents Learning as a Cultural Process: Insights from Mayan Families

The Carolina Consortium on Human Development is pleased to welcome Dr. Barbara Rogoff as the next presenter in their Spring 2021 Series on Culture & Developmental Science: Considering Context, Culture and Intersectional Approaches. On Feb. 8 at 2-3:15 p.m., Dr. Barbara Rogoff will present "Learning as a Cultural Process: Insights from Mayan Families." This lecture... Read more »

Introduction to Qualtrics

This is a hands-on introductory workshop. Participants will create a basic survey, add display and skip logic, and use content validation, piped text, and embedded data. Participants will create a contact list for distributing survey invitations, and overview the elements of Survey Flow. Participants will create “chained” surveys to collect personal information that is stored... Read more »

Elon Innovation Challenge

All majors welcome (engineering students were some of the winners last year). The challenge: Identify a problem affecting a small business, start-up or nonprofit due to the pandemic and create... Read more »

Self-Care and Activism

The UNC Counseling & Psychological Services Multicultural Health Program would like to invite BIPOC-identified graduate students to attend their Spring 2021 monthly workshop series. The first workshop on "Self-Care and... Read more »

Data-Adaptive Regression Modeling in High Dimensions

Dr. Ashley Petersen's research focuses on developing methods in the area of statistical learning, and in building flexible and interpretable data-adaptive models that are useful in modern settings with large numbers of covariates. She develops methods for the analysis of calcium imaging data. As a member of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core of the Masonic... Read more »

Structures of Inequality: Moving Forward on the Rural-Urban Divide and Access to Health Care

This lecture qualifies for 1 hour of credit toward the annual Gillings School faculty and staff inclusive excellence training requirement. In the fall, Honors Carolina kicked off an ongoing examination of systems of inequality with a series of programs on structural racism. This semester, they will turn attention to related questions of bias and discrimination.... Read more »