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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Frequent Research Study Audit Findings Requiring a Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) Plan

Please join the Network of Research Professionals and Jamie Kauwell, Senior CTQA Auditor, for a review of frequent audit findings and provide suggestions to develop an appropriate corrective and preventative action plan (CAPA).

- Define the criteria used to identify what findings require a CAPA plan

- Identify frequent findings requiring a CAPA plan found during a research study audit by the CTQA Program

- Explain what is needed to create an effective CAPA plan

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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.

This panel will explore how the language that academics choose to use shapes interactions with community partners and impacts the feeling of belonging and inclusion in academic spaces. Panelists include Mysha Winn, executive director, Project Momentum and Victoria Chavis, coordinator co-curricular & academic engagement, Carolina Firsts.

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Bad City: A Conversation with the Author

Please join the UNC Office of Ethics & Policy for a conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Paul Pringle about his new book, Bad City, which details his investigation of shocking misconduct by a former dean at the University of Southern California medical school. Pringle’s book is a study about complicity and abuses of power by individuals and institutions. The conversation hosts will talk with Pringle about his book and his insight about ethics in journalism, the perils of cronyism and the courage of everyday citizens who attempt to seek justice amid corrupt practices. Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill has copies of Bad City available for 10% off, leading up to the event.

Presenters:

Paul Pringle
Investigative Reporter
LA Times

Kim Strom, PhD, LISW
Director, UNC Office of Ethics and Policy
Smith P. Theimann Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Social Work

Susan King, MA
Dean Emeritus
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

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