The annual UNC Symposium for Research Administrators is a forum to provide campus research administrators with the most current information on policies, regulations, and best practices for conducting research at the University. The virtual symposium will be held over three half-days via Zoom for live webinar presentations and panel discussions, and includes live help/support throughout the event. Registration is not required.
Sessions will cover topics on budgeting, closeout, conflict of interest, industry, sub-awards, tools for proposal and project management, and many more. Please see the full schedule. Many sessions at this year’s symposium will also apply towards RACC continuing education credit hours.
The Children's Research Institute will be hosting a multi-disciplinary panel discussion focused on ongoing COVID-19 pediatric research at UNC. Presenters Schwartz, Thompson, Walker, Willis and Wu will each give a short presentation highlighting their current clinical research projects, followed by a Q&A.
Registration is not required. For information on how to attend or to submit specific questions to the panel, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Presenters
Stephanie Schwartz, MD
UNC Health
Peyton Thompson, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
UNC School of Medicine
Tracie Walker, MD
UNC Health
Zachary Willis, MD, MPH, Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
UNC Children's Research Institute
Eveline Wu, MD, MSCR, Associate Professor, Pediatric Rheumatology
UNC Children's Research Institute
In the face of increasing awareness of the need to capture the diversity of human experience, there has also been increasing concern to study and describe populations from a critical and equitable perspective. As science is itself a cultural practice, and knowledge production can perpetuate social inequalities prevalent in social systems, many times, scholars may perpetuate inequity through language use, methods, theories, and findings.
During this workshop, the following will be discussed with implications for our practice as scholars:
Presenters
Allegra J. Midgette, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
Michelle Y. Martin Romero, PhD, Assistant Professor, Public Health Education
UNC-Greensboro
This is the second academic year of funding for this seminar. The Sheps Center's previous year goals will carry forward this year with some additions and improvements. The Center still aims to become acquainted with researchers and students who are involved in or interested in health disparities, to understand how to build and refine the Program in Health Disparities Research at the Sheps Center based on interaction with seminar attendees and their identified needs, and to provide a space for researchers and students to present (and solicit feedback) on past and current research to a group of peers.
The general theme of this academic year’s seminar is on the impact structures have on health disparities.
Presenter
Sharita R. Thomas, MPP, Research Associate
Cecil G. Sheps Center