Fluent in two or more languages? Interested in interpretation? Come learn about roles, trainings, and tips for becoming an interpreter. This webinar is focused on spoken languages, not sign languages. Interpretation will be provided in English and Spanish. Sponsored by the Language Access Collaborative, an initiative of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Cultivating Health: Leveraging Microbial Ecology for Women’s Health Innovation

Join the Children's Research Institute for a hybrid seminar with Indriati Hood Pishchany, MD, PhD, an assistant professor in pediatric infectious diseases at UNC School of Medicine. Participate in the seminar either in person at 3116 Mary Ellen Jones Building (with lunch provided) or via Zoom.

Zoom information - Meeting ID: 985 6644 6544 | Password: 097476

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This course is being offered in collaboration between the Odum Institute and the Center for Urban & Regional Studies.

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.

Course Summary:
This course offers a broad introduction into the use of geospatial data in data science applications.  The course will be highly focused on what makes geospatial data different from other types of data and what these differences imply for using and applying geospatial data.  The course materials will be built for non-geospatial professionals who find themselves needing to use geospatial data effectively. 

Why Take This Course?
The availability and uses of geospatial data have been growing for decades.  Recently, with the advent of robust web-mapping and dynamic client-side web tools many data analysts, applications programmers, web developers, and data scientists of all types have been confronted with geospatial data without having a background in geography or Geographic Information Systems (GIS).  This course will ground students in fundamental concepts of geospatial data science, geospatial computing, and geospatial applications so they can be more efficient and accurate in using geospatial data in their daily jobs.

Participants will learn about:
- Basics of map projections and the use of projected and un-projected geospatial data
- How issues of scale, precision, and accuracy affect applications of geospatial data 
- Geospatial data models and the main ways geospatial data is presented in computer form 
- Key open-source and commercial off-the-shelf applications that handle geospatial data 

Prerequisites: 
Basic computer skills.  An understanding of tools such as spreadsheets, relational database management systems (RDMS), and programming will be beneficial, but not required. 

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Identify, Bid, and Win Federal Contract Opportunities

The Office of Research Development is hosting a webinar for UNC investigators and staff to learn more about federal contract opportunities, including: the differences of contract work versus grant, the approach to procuring contract funds versus PI-initiated grants, funding cycles for contract work, and UNC campus resources available to support your teams.

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Towards a More Holistic Conceptualization of Mental Health Among Black Populations

The second discussion in the SSW's Black History Month series features Theda Rose and Camille Quinn in a discussion on mental health. Current thinking about mental health remains, for the most part, pathology based; however, the absence of disorder alone is insufficient to characterize mental health. This panel will offer holistic models of mental health that incorporate well-being and pathology along with highlights of socio-ecological factors associated with this broader conceptualization of mental health.

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Clinical Implications of the MINT Trial

This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:

Jeffrey Carson, MD, MACP
Principal Investigator and Study Chair, MINT Trial
Provost-New Brunswick, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Richard C. Reynolds, M.D. Chair in General Internal Medicine
Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

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