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 »

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 »

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 »

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 designed and implemented to cultivate a more resilient and healthy planet. Barry will delve into the health impacts of these rapidly expanding urban metropolis. Reception... Read more »

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. Roberto Gonzales from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gonzales is the award-winning author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America.

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 research in this important field. Presenters include Joseph Hill, M.D., Ph.D, professor of Internal Medicine & Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center  Lance L. Munn,... Read more »

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 »

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 »

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.

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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

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 »

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 »

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.

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 »

Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s discoveries paved the way for remarkable breakthroughs in neuroscience in the early 20th century. Join the Ackland Art Museum for an intriguing discussion exploring questions about the brain, creativity, current developments in neuroscience, and the influence of sociocultural factors on the brain and human behavior. Co-presented by Stigma Free Carolina. Free... Read more »