Events under 'Other Sponsor'
NCATS: December Director Roundtable
Wednesday, December 03, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join NCATS Director Joni Rutter, PhD, for an interactive roundtable discussion to hear about the latest happening at NCATS! Supporters, researchers and educators will hear updates and can participate in an interactive discussion as we work together to bring more treatments to all people more quickly.
SHIRE 101: Introducing UNC’s New Platform for Data-Driven Clinical Research
Thursday, December 11, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Join the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research for the fourth session in the AI in Research series as Emily Pfaff, Paul Kovach, and JP Powers, present an in-depth look at SHIRE.
As of November 3, the Secure Health Informatics Research Environment (SHIRE) is the default environment for data-driven research using UNC Health’s electronic health record data.
In this webinar, presenters will demonstrate everything you need t...
Odum Institute: Analyzing Large Datasets with the Julia Language
Monday, January 26, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
This course will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, filtering, and joining that data; calculating descriptive statistics; and estimating statistica...
Odum Institute: Analyzing Large Datasets with the Julia Language
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
This course will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, filtering, and joining that data; calculating descriptive statistics; and estimating statistica...
Odum Institute: Analyzing Qualitative Data for Applied Contexts
Friday, January 30, 2026 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
It’s Monday morning and you open your qualitative research project folder. Thousands of pages of text, distributed across 90 in-depth interviews, await. What’s next? This workshop provides a roadmap for conducting an applied thematic analysis, through all major steps in the analytic process. Participants will learn the benefits of writing a qualitative data analysis plan, to ensure that the data collected are analyzed in a way that ...
Odum Institute: Multi-Item Scale Development - Part 1
Wednesday, February 04, 2026 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
This course is the first is a two-part scale development course series that introduces students to the systematic process of developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of va...