MOSAIC Building Community Event

Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center Michael Hooker Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

This year’s MOSAIC Building Community Event will welcome all incoming students adding their diverse and nuanced experiences to stop by for refreshments and camaraderie. We are committed to ensuring you feel connected and supported throughout your time at Gillings. Contact Maya Chevalier with questions.

How to more effectively engage with highly technical “Over-Your-Head” seminar talks

Do you ever wonder how some researchers can understand technical seminar talks and ask inquisitive questions? You probably never formally learned how to effectively listen and evaluate important technical information from seminar speakers. Like many others, you likely passively learned techniques from watching faculty ask questions, and yet never harnessed a repeatable strategy to quickly... Read more »

Being Public and Engaging Policy

Academics are increasingly asked to engage with public actors from policymakers to journalists. Rarely, however, are academics given any guidance or strategies for doing so. In this workshop, Dr. Rashawn Ray will provide strategies for interacting with journalists, policymakers, and bureaucrats. Participants will learn best practices for amplifying their research to broader publics, as well... Read more »

Extracting Data from the Web: Web Scraping Using R

This course will introduce you to extracting structured data from web pages, also known as “scraping” the pages. We will use the R programming language. The first portion of the course will introduce basic HTML, CSS selectors, Developer Tools in Google Chrome, and the R packages used for web scraping. The second portion will consist... Read more »

Introduction to Qualtrics

Room 219 Davis Library 208 Raleigh St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Qualtrics allows users to build complex surveys, distribute them, and analyze the responses all from one place. In this course, we will cover basic Qualtrics functions including creating some of the most common question types, programming display and skip logic, an introduction to “survey flow”, distributing surveys with an anonymous link vs survey mailer, creating... Read more »

Capturing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) in Survey Research

This course will provide participants with a broad overview of considerations and approaches for capturing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). This includes examining the current best practices and approaches, and considerations for sampling and other key design considerations when researching these populations. The course is intended to give participants an opportunity to better understand... Read more »

2023 UCC Consulting Bootcamp

Join the Undergraduate Consulting Club (UCC) for a day of networking with 10+ firms and attend workshops to help you prepare for recruiting, interviewing, and consulting.  The day will be... Read more »

Public Health Career Planning

228 Rosenau Hall Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium

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

The Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium (INSS) is an annual translational nutrition science conference. This conference will build on the dialogue that began in their first three symposia to develop best practices for translational nutrition science and to generate ideas for proposals and collaborative projects, which will lead public health, therapeutic and clinical efforts to reduce obesity and its... Read more »

2023 Undergraduate Business Symposium

We are excited to be hosting the 2023 Undergraduate Business Symposium – the signature career development and networking event of the year! Join us this September to have the opportunity to connect with 25+ top employers, engage in meaningful conversations, and ultimately grow professionally. Register Today - symposium.events.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/uncsymposium2023 Registration Deadline: Friday, September 8th or when... Read more »