The UNC Eshelman Institute for Innovation is hosting their next AWS Immersion Training October 18-20 on campus in Beard Hall.

This no-cost three-day training will educate UNC faculty/staff about AWS products and services and help them develop the skills needed to build, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications in the cloud. Immersion days also provide participants with hands-on AWS lab experience.

Immersion Days are designed for all PIs and research teams interested in using the AWS console for their research data needs. Research team members who will build, deploy, and operate the infrastructure are encouraged to participate in the training.

Interested participants can register online by completing an assessment form. The Eshelman Institute will contact registrants to learn more about their research. Following participation, users are eligible to receive up to $5,000 in free AWS credits.

Training times TBD

Registration deadline: October 3, 2022

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Implementation Science Speaker Series - Implementation and Effectiveness of Digital Health Interventions for Cancer Screening

The growing prevalence of mobile device ownership and high-speed internet access have created new opportunities to reach, educate, and empower patients to participate in their care. However, digital health interventions can be difficult to implement in busy clinical environments and may widen health disparities. David Miller, MD, MS, will share lessons learned along his 20-year journey of creating and implementing patient-facing digital health interventions designed to facilitate cancer screening.

Presenter:

David P. Miller, MD, MS
Professor, Internal Medicine and Implementation Science
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

The event is co-sponsored by NC TraCS and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and the UNC School of Social Work are co-sponsoring Language Summit 2022. The summit will take place across four days—while attendees are encouraged to attend multiple sessions, you do not have to attend all to benefit from the presentations/discussions.

Together, we will think through the importance of intentional language use and how language can be harmful, understand how language is always changing and changes are typically seen in spoken language before written language, and develop more inclusive language practices across daily communications in our work and in our communities.

Science doesn’t speak for itself. It requires translation for non-academic audiences, like practitioners, policymakers, or the public. The science of framing can help scientists avoid predictable communications missteps and advance greater understanding and engagement. Join Julie Sweetland, a sociolinguist and senior advisor of the FrameWorks Institute, to explore an evidence-based, action-oriented set of principles for more effective science communication.

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