Carolina Engagement Week 2024 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.
Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!
View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.
View last year's recap at engagementweek.unc.edu/2023-recap.Engagement Week 2024 is hosted by the Carolina Center for Public Service, Carolina Across 100, Innovate Carolina, UNC Rural, the Carolina Engagement Council, Center for Health Equity Research and other partners.
Carolina Engagement Week 2024 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.
Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!
View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.
View last year's recap at engagementweek.unc.edu/2023-recap.Engagement Week 2024 is hosted by the Carolina Center for Public Service, Carolina Across 100, Innovate Carolina, UNC Rural, the Carolina Engagement Council, Center for Health Equity Research and other partners.
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. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
In the past, working with US Census data in its various forms required gathering the data from numerous locations and using multiple software packages to process, analyze, and visualize it. Fortunately, recent improvements in census data delivery systems have made it far easier to acquire the data, greatly reducing the startup costs for people interested in working with the data. Additionally, new tools such as the tidycensus library in the R programming language offer a streamlined environment for acquiring, processing, and analyzing the census data products.
This one-day workshop will provide a hands-on, guided introduction to working with US Census data using tidycensus in R. The course will focus on using geographically-referenced demographic and socioeconomic data from the decennial census and American Community Survey (ACS). Participants will learn how to acquire data, perform basic data preprocessing tasks (e.g., subset, query, join), create basic visualizations (e.g., maps, plots, and graphs), and perform basic spatial and statistical analysis (e.g., correlation). Some experience with coding (particularly in R) is strongly recommended. Prior to the course, participants are required to have a working version of R (or RStudio) with the tidycensus library library installed. Participants are also required to register for a Census API Key.
Carolina Engagement Week 2024 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.
Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!
View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.
View last year's recap at engagementweek.unc.edu/2023-recap.Engagement Week 2024 is hosted by the Carolina Center for Public Service, Carolina Across 100, Innovate Carolina, UNC Rural, the Carolina Engagement Council, Center for Health Equity Research and other partners.
This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
Statistical machine learning is an interdisciplinary research area which is closely related to statistics, computer sciences, engineering, and bioinformatics. Many statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms have proven to be very useful for various scientific areas. This course will cover a number of unsupervised learning techniques for finding patterns and associations in Big Data. These include dimension reduction techniques such as principal components analysis and non-negative matrix factorization, clustering analysis and significance analysis, and network analysis with graphical models. The main emphasis will be on the analysis of real data sets from various scientific fields. The techniques discussed will be demonstrated in R.
This course is intended for researchers who have some knowledge of statistics and machine learning, and want to be introduced to relatively more advanced statistical machine learning topics.
Prerequisite:
Participants should be familiar with matrix linear algebra, linear regression and basic statistical and probability concepts, as well as some familiarity with R programming.
Join the UNC School of Medicine Thurston Arthritis Research Center for a UNC Core Center for Clinical Research (CCCR) Speaker Series seminar featuring Brian Pietrosimone, PhD, ATC. Pietrosimone is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Director of MOTION Science Institute.
Optimal movement is paramount to maintaining joint health. The development and progression of osteoarthritis has been linked, in part, to altered mechanical joint loading. Traumatic knee injuries are known to lead to changes in walking gait that may alter knee tissue loading and accelerate the development of osteoarthritis. This presentation will specifically describe: i) the aberrant gait biomechanics that we have measured following anterior cruciate ligament injury; ii) the links between these aberrant gait biomechanics and deleterious knee tissue changes related to osteoarthritis development; and iii) some emerging ideas for mitigating aberrant gait biomechanics following anterior cruciate ligament injury.
Carolina Engagement Week 2024 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.
Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!
View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.
View last year's recap at engagementweek.unc.edu/2023-recap.Engagement Week 2024 is hosted by the Carolina Center for Public Service, Carolina Across 100, Innovate Carolina, UNC Rural, the Carolina Engagement Council, Center for Health Equity Research and other partners.
NIH is gearing up for their biggest meeting of the year, Rare Disease Day, set for Thursday, February 29 at the NIH Main Campus. Nearly 10% of people in the United States have a rare disease. Rare diseases often are difficult to diagnose and treat. NCATS and the NIH Clinical Center are co-hosting this event to raise awareness, shine a spotlight on stories told by the rare diseases community, and highlight research and the development of diagnostics and treatments.
The planning team (which includes partners from NIH, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and advocacy organizations) has put together the agenda featuring sessions on timely topics such as the role of artificial intelligence in rare diseases and advances in gene therapy, stories from the rare diseases community, and panel discussions. Many of the speakers represent NCATS-supported activities, further highlighting NCATS as a home for rare diseases research. The meeting will also host in-person exhibitors, scientific posters, and an art exhibition.
This event is free and open to the public. A virtual livestream will be available for those unable to attend in person.
Indigenization of Mental Health Interventions for Africans in the Diaspora
The fourth discussion in the SSW's Black History Month series focuses on research that advances transformative change counseling for mental health wellness among people of African ancestry.
Carolina Engagement Week 2024 brings together Carolina faculty, staff and students with community partners to learn about and celebrate engagement and collaboration with North Carolina communities.
Register for the events you want to attend and participate in skill-building workshops, research presentations, panel discussions and more!
View the events at engagementweek.unc.edu/events-calendar.
View last year's recap at engagementweek.unc.edu/2023-recap.Engagement Week 2024 is hosted by the Carolina Center for Public Service, Carolina Across 100, Innovate Carolina, UNC Rural, the Carolina Engagement Council, Center for Health Equity Research and other partners.
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Joseph Doyle, PhD
Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics
MIT Sloan School of Management