Where: UNC-Chapel Hill Campus and Virtual Sessions

Why: Through skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more, Engagement Week brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to highlight partnerships between UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina communities.

Community Engagement: Engagement Week uses the Carnegie Elective Classifications definition of community engagement as “the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”

Learn more and view the event schedule at engagementweek.unc.edu.

The Carolina Women's Health Research Network- Connecting for Discovery, Collaboration & Impact

Building on the momentum of past successes, NC TraCS and the Office of Research Development at UNC–Chapel Hill are excited to reconnect with researchers across campus. This in-person event is an opportunity to strengthen relationships, celebrate shared accomplishments, and explore new funding and collaborative possibilities.

Here's what we have planned:

• Lightning Talks from UNC Researchers
• TraCS Pilot Funding Updates
• Federal agency priority updates
• Networking time

This event will be held in room 219 on the second floor of the Brinkhous-Bullitt Building.

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Please register by February 20 to participate. If you are interested in presenting a lightning talk, please contact Kelley Cardone at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Introduction to Individual and Aggregate Data Network Models for Understanding Human Processes

This 2-day course (2/25/26 and 2/27/26) will be offered ONLINE. It will not be recorded as there are in-class activities.

With increased interest in person-centered interventions and treatments has come increased interest in understanding human processes as they unfold within individuals. Additionally, technological advances have made the collection of person-specific data easier and more cost-effective for researchers interested in studying human behavior within everyday contexts. This two-day course focuses on using two popular network models to explore research questions concerning within-person processes.

This course is intended for individuals with research questions that can be answered using multivariate time series data/intensive longitudinal data. Examples of such data include daily diary data; data collected via self-report through ecological momentary sampling (ESM); passive data from cell phones; and other psychophysiological data such as MRI data or heart rate data.

The two network modeling frameworks presented in this course are graphicalVAR (GVAR) and Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (GIMME). Both models can be used to explore processes as they unfold within individuals to obtain individual person-specific network models (idiographic analysis) or group/population level network models (nomothetic analysis). Differences between the modeling frameworks will be presented. Challenges and considerations for choosing between methods will be discussed.

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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 market potential of your innovation!

The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps Program (I-Corps) was launched in 2011 and has quickly become one of the world’s largest and most successful technology commercialization accelerators. The I-Corps regional program helps researchers and aspiring innovators determine if they are solving a real-world problem with true market opportunity. NSF’s I-Corps Program not only provides funding, mentoring, and networking opportunities to help commercialize promising technologies, it is offered at NO COST to the community.

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For more information about the I-Corps Program, visit KickStart Venture Services.

Version Control with Git and GitHub

This 2-part (2/23/2026 and 2/25/2026) 5-hour course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

In this course, participants will learn how to keep track of the code they use in their research using the version control system Git and the collaboration platform GitHub. Git allows you to keep track of changes to your code, easily revert to previous versions, and “tag” versions of code used in publications so that the exact code used can be retrieved at a later date. GitHub allows Git users to collaborate with each other on projects by managing simultaneous changes to the same files and allowing users to review and discuss each others’ code. Git and Github are applicable to any text-based programming or analysis language, including R, Python, Stata, Julia, and others.

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The Penn State CTSI Community Engagement Team is pleased to host an educational workshop focused on conducting research in rural populations. Please join them in welcoming Kristina Brant, PhD, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Social Science Research Institute Co-Funded Faculty Member, and Florence Becot, PhD, Nationwide Insurance Early Career Professor and Agricultural Safety and Health Program Lead. The speakers will share their expertise and firsthand experiences working with rural communities. During this session, participants will: explore the importance of research in rural communities; examine real-world examples of research conducted among rural populations; and discuss best practices and lessons learned from engaging with rural communities.

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