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.
Join Tar Heels Together for University Research Week’s capstone event, featuring a lively panel discussion on Carolina’s sustained, holistic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenting an all-star panel of frontline research experts, the conversation will be moderated by renowned viral immunologist and Tar Heel alumna Kizzmekia Corbett ’14 (PhD), who is currently leading a team at... Read more »
Join the UNC School of Social Work's Black and Latinx Student Caucuses for a free panel webinar featuring subject matter experts addressing the impact of Covid-19 on brown and black folk. Topics include mental health, community support, service delivery for marginalized communities and action steps. Registration required.
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
Explore the rapidly evolving medical device regulatory landscape and uncover the innovative strategies that companies are implementing to support smarter, faster approvals for state-of-the-art technologies. Join two of Parexel’s ex-FDA subject matter experts for an exclusive opportunity to learn about the regulatory landscape for early-device companies including regulatory strategies, advances, how to implement new concepts... Read more »
Dr. Kenneth Rice's research focuses primarily on developing and applying statistical methods for complex disease epidemiology, notably cardiovascular disease. He leads the Data Coordinating Center and Analysis Committee for the NHLBI's TOPMed project and is the PI of the associated U01 project (HL137162). He also chairs the Analysis Committee for the CHARGE consortium, a large... Read more »
This online 3-day (10/19, 10/22, and 10/23) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how to work with SPSS syntax, how to create your own SPSS data files, and how to convert data in other formats to SPSS. it will... Read more »
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
A major challenge facing the United States is how to combine the good and bad of our history into shared narratives. Telling Our Nation’s Story—one of the recommendations of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ recent report Our Common Purpose—calls for communities to work toward a common narrative by engaging in honest conversations about the past... Read more »
Are you a graduate student interested in applying public health skills in a real-world setting? Adapting evidence-based curricula? Building relationships with local community members? Teaching adolescents about puberty and sexual health? Come learn about Classroom to Community! Interest meetings: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 11:30 a.m.; Thursday, Oct. 22, 5:00 p.m. Apply online. Join the Tuesday interest... Read more »
In this time that is so challenging for all of us, take a few moments to nurture yourself. UNC's Well-Being Program, in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry, is offering free virtual 20-minute mindfulness sessions to reduce stress and foster strength and resilience. 8:00 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday 12:15 p.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday 4:00... Read more »
This online 3-day (10/19, 10/22, and 10/23) course will offer an introduction to SPSS and will demonstrate how to work with data saved in SPSS format. It will demonstrate how to work with SPSS syntax, how to create your own SPSS data files, and how to convert data in other formats to SPSS. it will... Read more »
Leadership Week is a week-long series of workshops, consultation sessions and events open to all UNC undergraduate and graduate students, hosted by the UNC Office of Student Life & Leadership and the Kenan-Flagler Smith Leadership Institute. Leadership Week 2020 is centered on the theme "Leadership in a Digital Age." The week is capped with the... Read more »
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.
Andrew Perrin is a professor of sociology and has been a member of the Carolina faculty since 2001. An accomplished and interdisciplinary scholar, he has conducted research on the cultural sociology of democracy, health messages in children’s movies and translations of postwar Frankfurt School theory, among other work. Perrin serves as the director of Carolina... Read more »
