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MS Azure is furnished by the Provost's AI Accelerator Program which the OVCR has partnered with to help drive adoption of these computational tools. This session is all about helping you get the most out of campus AI technologies to boost discovery and scholarship.

You'll walk away with a clear roadmap to kickstart your own AI projects using MS Azure's extensive catalogue of developer tools including pre-trained large-language model...

Digital Presence, Professional Impact: Leveraging LinkedIn to Network Strategically

Join the UNC Network for Research Professionals (NRP) for a hybrid education session with Justin Golding, Assistant Director of Career Education, UNC Career Center

1. Learn how to leverage LinkedIn for digital networking
2. Connect with the UNC Alumni in your industry/region
3. Create a digital brand that showcases your unique strengths

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Introduction to Implementation Science

There is a substantial gap between the development of innovations in medicine, public health, and other fields and their delivery in health care facilities, communities, and beyond. Implementation science is a field that dedicated to the study of closing this gap by scientifically identifying the factors that facilitate and impede the systematic uptake of knowledge and evidence. It includes the ...

Oral and systemic biomarkers for peanut sublingual immunotherapy

Join the Children's Research Institute and Johanna Smeekens, PhD, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy & Immunology, for a seminar on her research with biospecimens from sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) and oral immunotherapy (OIT) clinical trials for peanut allergy, including saliva, blood, and plasma, to ide...

Multiscale Virtual-Tissue Models of Infection and Immune Response: From Principles to Digital Twins

Understanding infection and immunity—and immune responses in contexts ranging from arthritis to cancer—requires linking molecular, cellular, tissue, and whole-body dynamics across scales. Multiscale Virtual-Tissue models—physics-based, multicellular, agent-based simulations—provide a framework for connecting intracellular netwo...

Overview of 2025 NIH Requirements: Biosketch, SciENcv, and ORCID

This session provides an overview of some of the upcoming changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application requirements. The NIH originally planned for adoption of a new Common Form for Biographical Sketch and a new Biographical Sketch Supplement to occur on May 25, 2025, but it has been postponed and will instead likely be adopted later this year. T...

Discovering Pathways to Translate Ideas Into Innovations for the Public Good

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for their November research forum. Learn about the opportunities and Innovate Carolina resources available to support your innovation journey or to unlock the commercial potential of your research.

The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and vi...

The New NIH Public Access Policy: What You Need to Know

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy includes several significant changes from the previous policy, and applies to all NIH-funded manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. Learn more about what has changed, how to comply, and what to expect going forward.

This program is offered via Zoom by the Health Sciences Library and led by Collin Drummond and Katherine...

Mastering communication is not easy, but it is one of the most valuable skills graduate students and postdocs can develop for sharing their research effectively. This Fall, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is offering a three-part virtual workshop series led by Danielle Hennis from Make it Memorable, focused on strengthening communication and presentation skills. Sessions will co...

Writing Unit-level and Study-Level Clinical Research SOPs

Join the UNC Network for Research Professionals (NRP) for an education session on writing clinical research SOPs.

1. Define the purpose and core functions of SOPs within the UNC research context
2. Differentiate SOP levels, responsibilities, and when to develop unit vs. study-level SOPs
3. Identify key structural elements, formatting standards, and when to include Work Instructi...

Reproducibility Rounds: How Reproducible is Health Science Research?

We will discuss the methods, results, and implications of a series of scoping and systematic reviews that synthesized evidence on the reproducibility of health science research. Specific aims of the projects included describing and categorizing methods and metrics used to quantify reproducibility, synthesizing estimates of the prevalence of reproducible research, an...

Accelerate your ideas through customer discovery and market opportunity validation!

KickStart Venture Services is recruiting community startups as well as faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students with innovations and an interest in commercialization to participate in their virtual NSF I-Corps program. They will teach you the principles of customer discovery to help you better understand the marke...

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...