Gillings Virtual Student Engagement

January

February

March

April

Gillings Commencement (TBA)

Gillings School Student Activities, Organizations and Community Events

General Links

• UNC Gillings Student Organizations
• Carolina Union
• UNC Graduate School Events
• HeelLife
• UNC Gillings Alumni Events
• UNC Alumni Association
• Get Involved with UNC Campus Rec
• Visit Chapel Hill
• Chapelboro.com
• Ackland Art Museum
• Carolina Community Garden

Health and Wellness

A message from Dean Sims-Evans (PDF)

Mental Health and Wellness

• Coping with Stress during COVID (Centers for Disaster Control and Prevention)
• 7 Tips for Mental Fitness (Department of Homeland Security)
• Wellness Resources from the NC Department of Health and Human Services
• Resources from the Mental Wellness Awareness Association
• Emotional Wellness Toolkit (National Institutes of Health)
• Gillings School Culture of Health
• Peers for Progress Support Pods (View Existing Pods, Start a Pod, or Register a Pod)
• Healthy Heels – Support Resources 

Fitness

• YMCA Health and Fitness Videos
• Les Mills on Demand At Home Workouts
• 10 Instagram Live Free Workouts (USA Today)
• Running Training Plans (Runner’s World)
• Free Yoga Classes from CorePower Yoga

Virtual Nutrition

• Gordon Ramsay Demonstrates Basic Cooking Skills (Youtube)
• Recipes by Tasty

Peer2Peer

Peer2Peer is an undergraduate and graduate student-led initiative that provides peer support in the form of one-on-session with peer responders. Through these conversations, we support anonymity and individual autonomy. Peer support connects us to each other through shared experiences.

We hope our Peer Responders’ diverse range of lived experiences can help students across the country find comfort during this unprecedented time. We encourage individuals to use this platform as an avenue to talk about what may be on their minds– both mental and non-mental health-related.

Peer2Peer values vulnerability, empathy, and perspectives that are innate to peer support.  We hope students across the country will seek support through Peer2Peer and encourage those around them to do the same.

Connect with Peer2Peer Services.

Lectures and Webinars

Gillings School Series

• Emergency Preparedness, Ethics and Equity Series
• Building COVID-19 Research Collaborations Webinar Series
• Dean’s Lecture Series
• Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Lecture Series
• School Events

Outside of the Gillings School

• Friday Morning Conference Series
• Tar Heels Together – LIVE
• Office for Diversity and Inclusion Events
• North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute Webinars
• APHA and National Academy of Medicine: COVID-19 Conversations
• Consortium of Universities for Global Health Webinars

Career Services

Gillings School Career Services

What We’re Listening to and Reading

Podcasts

Race, History, and Anti-Racist Education

• Code Switch: NPR
• Seeing White
• 1619

LGBTQ

• One From the Vaults 
• Hoodrat to Headwrap 
• Nancy: NPR 

Public Health, Wellness & Nutrition

• Flip the Script
• Emerging Infectious Diseases: CDC
• Ted Health
• Food Heaven Podcast 
• The Doctor’s Farmacy
• Roots of Change

Antiracism

• Still Processing: Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris
• Jemele Hill is Unbothered (Spotify, Apple Music)
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• About Race
• Momentum: A race forward podcast
• Seeing White
• Pod for the Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• 1619 (from the New York Times)
• Intersectionality Matters! (from The African American Policy Forum)
• Throughline (from NPR)
• Yo, Is This Racist?
• Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsey

Books

Race and Culture

• When They Call You a Terrorist
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race 

Public Health

• Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service 
• To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation 
• Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for the Appalachia 
• The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor

Antiracism

• Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Robin DiAngelo)
• So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
• How To Be An Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See Think and Do (Jennifer L. Eberhardt)
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Claude Steele)
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi)
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Renni Eddo-Lodge)
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Tiffany Jewell)
• Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
• The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale)

Movies and Videos

• 13th (2016)
• I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
• Teach Us All (2017)
• Just Mercy (2019)
• The Hate U Give (2018)
• When They See Us (2019)
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
• NY Times Film Club: 26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students
• TEDTalk Playlist: Talks to help you understand racism
• TED: Implicit Bias
• Moving the Race Conversation Forward
• What is Systemic Racism? (Race Forward video series) 
• Diversity Training Isn’t Enough!: Racism, Trauma, and Justice (with Dr. Joy A. Degruy)

Web Articles and Links

Antiracism

• RACISM 101: UNDERSTANDING RACE AND RACISM
• Racism Kills: Why Many Are Declaring It a Public Health Crisis
• The Atlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates “The Case for Reparations”
• Racial Equity Glossary
• Code of Ethics for White Anti-Racists
• How Did We Get Here?: 163 of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America
• Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
• Hey, you got a little racism stuck in your teeth.

Additional Resources

Antiracism

• UNC Diversity Antiracism Resources
• UNC Gillings Inclusion Resources

Webinar Recordings

Wind Down Wednesday Series (2020 Archived)

• August 26: Optimizing Your Space and Time (Betty-Shannon Prevatt) [View Recording]
• September 9: Harnessing Your Strengths and Resilience (Candice Fisher Webb) [View Recording]
• September 23: Alleviating Stress and Anxiety (Dr. Kamala Uzzell) [View Recording]
• October 14: Avoiding and/or Eliminating Distractions (Shekinah Fashaw) [View Recording]
• October 28: Making Healthy Food Choices (Jonathan Earnest) [View Recording]
• November 11: Managing Grief and Loss During the Holidays (Dr. Greg Bocchino) [View Recording]

Money Talks Mondays

• Budget 101 [View Recording]

International Student Resources

Carolina International Community website
Carolina International Community has been set up for winter break and will be providing all Carolina international students with a virtual space to gather. To access the site, you need to access Sakai with your ONYEN and password, navigate to “Membership” on the left-hand panel, select “Joinable Sites” and search for “Carolina International Community.”
Once you’ve joined, you’ll be able to view the calendar of events and access the Zoom link. Check your emails for the email “Winter Break Programming” sent from ISSS on November 25 to get the weekly schedule of virtual events and other resources.

COVID-19 Emergency Funding Resources for International Students