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.

The first panel will provide a broad discussion of how we can be intentional in our daily communications to be inclusive, respond to injustices, and avoid creating or perpetuating harm and will include: a spoken word performance with poet, Destiny James; a keynote presentation, “The Power of Language: The Crossroads of Standardization, Policy, and Identity” from Lamar Graham, assistant professor of Hispanic linguistics, UNC Department of Romance Languages; and a panel on Power in Daily Communication with Travis Albritton, associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, UNC School of Social Work, and Lindsay MacNeill, historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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I Spot a Cool Plot: A Nearly Syntax-Free Introduction to Advanced Data Visualization in R for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists

Course Summary:

This online workshop will introduce attendees to the advanced data visualization capabilities in R and to the concepts of the grammar of graphics. Specifically, we will demonstrate how to access ggplot2 using a graphical user interface library in R as well as through an R shiny app. These environments provide the user a “point and click” interface for accessing the power of ggplot2 and can generate R syntax automatically thereby providing users a boost up the learning curve for understanding the grammar of graphics used by ggplot2.

We begin the workshop with an overview of the grammar of graphics and explain how graphs are constructed in layers and aesthetics which will lay a foundation for how to approach creating advanced graphics and visualizations. We will then demonstrate how to create and export various kinds of visualizations including violin pots, line plots, boxplots, scatterplots, bubble plots, bar charts, histograms and more using these interfaces. The examples used throughout will leverage mixed data types (e.g. a combination of continuous and categorical variables) that are common in both survey research and social sciences.

While no prior R programming experience is assumed, a working understanding of the R environment (how to load packages, etc.) or Rstudio will be very helpful. Having the most recent version of R and /or Rstudio and an internet connection during the workshop would help users follow along in real time if desired.

Instructor: Trent Buskirk, PhD

Trent D. Buskirk, PhD, is the Novak Family Professor of Data Science and the Chair of the Applied Statistics and Operations Research Department at Bowling Green State University. Trent received his PhD in Statistics from Arizona State University with emphasis in Survey Sampling. Since that time he has developed specific expertise in Mobile and Smartphone Survey Designs and Data and in the use of machine learning methods for developing sampling designs and adaptive survey protocols. Trent has held positions in academia and industry including Director of the Center for Survey Research at UMass Boston and as an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Saint Louis University as well as the Research Director in Measurement Science for the Nielsen Company and Vice President or Methods and Statistics at the Marketing Systems group. 

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Aging & Mobility

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for a special University Research Week research forum featuring speakers on Aging & Mobility. The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. Please register to attend.

Presenters:

Jason Franz, PhD
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
Mobility and falls prevention in the elderly

Michael Lewek, PhD
Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Health Sciences
Mobility assessment in older patients with neurological disorders

John Batsis, MD, PhD
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine
Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Treating obesity to improve mobility

Questions? Contact the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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This interactive online workshop will focus on semi-structured interviewing, a data collection method used in qualitative research. Participants will have the opportunity to practice developing interview questions and using interviewing skills.

Topics:

• Basics of semi-structured interviews
• Development of interview questions and probes
• Interviewing skills
• Considerations for conducting virtual interviews.

Presenters:
MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Engagement and Qualitative Research Specialist
NC TraCS Institute

Simone Frank, MPH
Community Engagement and Outreach Specialist
NC TraCS Institute

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The Proposal Development Unit in the Office of Research and Innovation at NC State University invites everyone in the NC State community and the broader NC TraCS Institute community to participate in the NIH @ NC State Fall Grantsmanship Series.

Almost 60% of NIH’s budget is spent on a class of grants called the RPGs (Research Project Grants). This session will walk through the most common RPG activity codes, such as R01, R21, R03, U01, and P01, and discuss why a researcher may choose a particular activity code for a given project.

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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.

In this panel, we will discuss the connections between language and legislation and how language can be used intentionally to disrupt injustice and promote inclusive, democratic learning environments where all students can thrive. Panelists include: Xigrid Soto-Boykin, assistant research professor/senior scientist for bilingual learning, Children's Equity Project, Arizona State University; JP Przewoznik, clinical assistant professor, UNC School of Social Work; and North Carolina State Representative Julie Von Haefen, NC General Assembly.

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Responding (or Not) to Signals of Potential Clinical Significance in Pragmatic Clinical Trials

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Joseph Ali, JD
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Dept. of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Core Faculty & Associate Director for Global Programs
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Tanya Matthews, PhD
HRPP Director
Kaiser Permanente Washington

Leslie J. Crofford, MD
Wilson Family Chair in Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
Chief, Division of Rheumatology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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