Events that may be of interest to our research community that are sponsored by organizations outside of NC TraCS.

NRP Education Session: Communicating Research: A Narrative Approach

Friday, January 23, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Communicating Research: A Narrative Approach

Join the UNC Network for Research Professionals (NRP) for a hybrid education session on Relational Leadership, narrative structure, and building trust through sharing intentional stories of self.

  1. Understand what Relational Leadership is and why it is important in research
  2. Develop and share narratives structured around “choice points”
  3. Understand how sharing intentional stories of...

Odum Institute: Analyzing Large Datasets with the Julia Language

Monday, January 26, 2026 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Every 2 Days until January 28, 2026

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
Every 2 Days until January 28, 2026

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...

CRI: Preventing Vertical Transmission of HIV: Insights from Simulation Modeling

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Preventing Vertical Transmission of HIV: Insights from Simulation Modeling

Join the Children's Research Institute for a seminar with Horacio A. Duarte, MD, MS, an assistant professor in the Division of Epidemiology & Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Duarte is a physician-scientist with clinical training in pediatric infectious diseases and research training in epidemiology, decision analysis, a...

HSL: Overview of 2026 NIH Requirements

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Overview of 2026 NIH Requirements: Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support

This session provides an overview of some of the upcoming changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application requirements, including new Common Forms that will be required for due dates on or after January 25, 2026.

In particular, this presentation will focus on the Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support forms, which w...

HSL: The New NIH Public Access Policy

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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 the Scholarly Communications Office,...

HSL: The New NIH Public Access Policy

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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 the Scholarly Communications Office,...

HSL: Overview of 2026 NIH Requirements

Thursday, March 26, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Overview of 2026 NIH Requirements: Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support

This session provides an overview of some of the upcoming changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application requirements, including new Common Forms that will be required for due dates on or after January 25, 2026.

In particular, this presentation will focus on the Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support forms, which w...

HSL: Overview of 2026 NIH Requirements

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Overview of 2026 NIH Requirements: Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support

This session provides an overview of some of the upcoming changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application requirements, including new Common Forms that will be required for due dates on or after January 25, 2026.

In particular, this presentation will focus on the Biosketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support forms, which w...

HSL: The New NIH Public Access Policy

Thursday, April 23, 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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 the Scholarly Communications Office,...