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.

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Odum Institute Short Course - Multiple Imputation: Methods And Applications

Multiple imputation offers a general purpose framework for handling missing data, protecting confidential public use data, and adjusting for measurement errors. These issues are frequently encountered by organizations that disseminate data to others, as well as by individual researchers. Participants in this workshop will learn how multiple imputation can solve problems in these areas, and they will gain a conceptual and practical basis for applying multiple imputation in their statistical work.

Topics include:

• The pros and cons of various solutions for handling missing data
• The motivation for and general idea behind multiple imputation
• Methods for implementing multiple imputation including multivariate modeling, conditional modeling, and machine learning based approaches
• Methods for checking the adequacy of imputations via graphical display and posterior predictive checks
• Applications of multiple imputation for scenarios other than missing data

The course will have an online format spread over two half days. The first half day will cover general methodologies, and the second half day will cover applications.

Presenter
Jerry Reiter, PhD, Professor, Statistical Science
Duke University

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Transition to Civilian Life: How I Overcame Military Injuries and Jumped Back into My Life with a New Career

Join Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute for a special Veteran’s Day event where Billy Dewalt shares his inspiring story of developing a civilian career post-military. After ten years of military service, Dewalt suffered from depression, an anxiety disorder, an incomplete spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injuries resulting in more than 10 seizures a day and memory retention problems.

To transition back to civilian life, Billy attended ECPI University and earned a degree in network administration and security management, but still struggled with his medical issues. His life truly changed when he met Quinn. Quinn is a highly trained service dog who is able to signal to Billy when a seizure is about to occur and help him cope with his anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder.

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The REDCap Hands-On Form Building Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary. This session will be a click along hands-on/lecture/demo.

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium - Cultural Industry, Techno-capitalism, and Labor: The Mediated Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies

The Race, Racism, and Racial Equity (R3) Symposium, hosted by the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion, is a series of virtual events that brings together scholars and researchers from across campus to share their work with Carolina and the broader community. This is the second in the R3 series.

Scholars from across UNC, including Business and Communications, will share their work addressing issues of language, representation, cultural appropriation, and decontextualization of Black and Brown labor as it appears through a variety of media.

Moderator
Travis J. Albritton, PhD, MSW, MDiv, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
School of Social Work

Panelists

Kiara Childs, Doctoral Student
Department of Communication

Stephanie Mahin, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Kenan-Flagler School of Business

Ashley A. Mattheis, PhD Candidate
Department of Communication

Michael Waltman, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Communication

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