University Research Week returns Oct 20-24, 2025, with the theme “UNC Research is North Carolina.” This year, UNC will highlight all the ways our research benefits our state.

Help us showcase how UNC-Chapel Hill’s research fuels North Carolina’s economy, supports businesses, meets community needs, trains the workforce, and cares for our citizens. Join us for a week packed with inspiring talks, interactive events, and opportunities to engage with Carolina’s thriving research community.

University Research Week is an annual, campus-wide event sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office for Undergraduate Research.

For a calendar of events, visit researchweek.unc.edu.

University Research Week returns Oct 20-24, 2025, with the theme “UNC Research is North Carolina.” This year, UNC will highlight all the ways our research benefits our state.

Help us showcase how UNC-Chapel Hill’s research fuels North Carolina’s economy, supports businesses, meets community needs, trains the workforce, and cares for our citizens. Join us for a week packed with inspiring talks, interactive events, and opportunities to engage with Carolina’s thriving research community.

University Research Week is an annual, campus-wide event sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office for Undergraduate Research.

For a calendar of events, visit researchweek.unc.edu.

Utilizing LLMs for Medical Analysis: a SHIRE Databricks Demonstration

In this seminar, Josh Fuchs, PhD, will provide a technical introduction to using Large Language Models (LLMs) in Databricks, with a focus on SHIRE, the new secure environment for working with CDW-H data. Fuchs will discuss cost considerations as well as provide an in-depth look at how to programmatically run, track, and evaluate LLMs in a reproducible and efficient way.

Speaker:
Josh Fuchs, PhD
Research Data Scientist
TraCS Data Science Lab

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Seminars in the NC TraCS Data Science Lab Seminar Series cover a range of topics related to health care data science, clinical data, data engineering, and working in these areas at UNC-Chapel Hill. These hybrid seminars are usually held monthly on the third Tuesday of each month from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the NC TraCS suite on the 2nd floor of Brinkhous-Bullitt or via Zoom.

Designing Web Surveys

This course will introduce methods for effectively designing web surveys to mitigate common mistakes that impact data quality and introduce measurement error. The course will focus on the following elements of web survey design – overall formatting and visual layout of screens, selecting and designing questions and response options (e.g., radio buttons, check boxes, grids, and open text fields), error and validation messaging, navigation elements, and usability. Special considerations for designing web surveys to accommodate mobile response will also be covered. This course will also offer practical guidance on selecting appropriate web survey platforms. However, this course will not provide instruction on the technical aspects of web survey programming or introduce programming languages. The course will draw from empirical literature on best practices coupled with practical considerations when designing and implementing web surveys.

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University Research Week returns Oct 20-24, 2025, with the theme “UNC Research is North Carolina.” This year, UNC will highlight all the ways our research benefits our state.

Help us showcase how UNC-Chapel Hill’s research fuels North Carolina’s economy, supports businesses, meets community needs, trains the workforce, and cares for our citizens. Join us for a week packed with inspiring talks, interactive events, and opportunities to engage with Carolina’s thriving research community.

University Research Week is an annual, campus-wide event sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office for Undergraduate Research.

For a calendar of events, visit researchweek.unc.edu.

Strengthening Engagement in Research: Building and Maintaining Relationships with Patient & Community Partners

Meaningful partnerships with patients, community members, or other collaborators involved in your research are invaluable. Projects are set up for success when care is intentionally given to developing and strengthening partnerships over time.

This online training will describe best practices for building mutually beneficial partnerships. The session will also cover common challenges that researchers and patient, community, and other partners experience when working together, along with suggested solutions.

Participation in our Engagement in Research 101 or Engagement in Research Nuts and Bolts trainings are not required to attend this session; however, some knowledge of engagement, whether from prior training(s) or personal experience, may foster deeper understanding of the material in this session.

Presenters:
Alicia Bilheimer, MPH - Director of Engaged Science, NC TraCS
Veronica Carlisle, MPH, CHES - Senior Community Health Educator, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC)
Nisha Datta, MS - Senior Project Manager, NC TraCS
Simone Frank, MPH - Senior Project Manager, NC TraCS
Milenka Jean-Baptiste, MPH - Qualitative Research Specialist, NC TraCS
Jennifer Potter, MPH, CHES - Senior Program Coordinator for Clinical Outreach, LCCC
Members of the NC TraCS Community and Patient Advisory Board and the UNC Lineberger Community Advisory Board

Please note: This event may be recorded. Materials such as slides or handouts will be shared with documented attendees only. Attendance may be determined through Zoom meeting attendance reports.

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Engaging Patient, Community, and Other Partners in Your Research is a multi-part online training series. You may register for the entire series OR any single training session. This training series was developed collaboratively with patient, community, and researcher partners and is co-sponsored by the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and NC TraCS Institute.

Implementing Techniques for Assessing and Addressing Inadequate Physical Activity

Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for their October research forum. Mariana Wingood, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor in the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, will present Implementing Techniques for Assessing and Addressing Inadequate Physical Activity. Learn more about utilizing implementation science methodologies to identify and address barriers to adopting new innovations into clinical practice.

The hybrid forum will take place in person (MacNider 321, LUNCH provided) and via Zoom. Please register to attend.

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University Research Week returns Oct 20-24, 2025, with the theme “UNC Research is North Carolina.” This year, UNC will highlight all the ways our research benefits our state.

Help us showcase how UNC-Chapel Hill’s research fuels North Carolina’s economy, supports businesses, meets community needs, trains the workforce, and cares for our citizens. Join us for a week packed with inspiring talks, interactive events, and opportunities to engage with Carolina’s thriving research community.

University Research Week is an annual, campus-wide event sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office for Undergraduate Research.

For a calendar of events, visit researchweek.unc.edu.

University Research Week returns Oct 20-24, 2025, with the theme “UNC Research is North Carolina.” This year, UNC will highlight all the ways our research benefits our state.

Help us showcase how UNC-Chapel Hill’s research fuels North Carolina’s economy, supports businesses, meets community needs, trains the workforce, and cares for our citizens. Join us for a week packed with inspiring talks, interactive events, and opportunities to engage with Carolina’s thriving research community.

University Research Week is an annual, campus-wide event sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office for Undergraduate Research.

For a calendar of events, visit researchweek.unc.edu.

Hidden Gems: Lesser-Known, but Incredibly Useful Research Methods

This workshop introduces researchers to a wide range of lesser-known data collection and analysis methods – both qualitative and quantitative. Techniques explored include a set of projective techniques designed to dig deeper and elicit individuals’ beliefs, values and emotions. Moving beyond the individual, participants will next learn about unique methods developed to describe and understand social/cultural processes, and the interaction between individual beliefs/behaviors and the physical, social, and temporal contexts in which they are developed and expressed. Workshop participants will learn how to design and execute more than a dozen of these engaging methods, in both supplemental and stand-alone contexts. Workshop includes interactive components and hands on practice of concepts presented.

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Mastering communication is not easy, but it is one of the most valuable skills graduate students and postdocs can develop for sharing their research effectively. This Fall, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is offering a three-part virtual workshop series led by Danielle Hennis from Make it Memorable, focused on strengthening communication and presentation skills. Sessions will cover advanced PowerPoint techniques, the power of scientific storytelling, and effective data visualization strategies.

Each 1.5-hour workshop is highly practical and filled with tips and exercises that you can immediately apply to your own research presentations. Please note: sessions will be live and not recorded, so be sure to take advantage of them in real time.

As a bonus, a pre-series session - Deconstructing Presentations - is available as a limited-time recording through mid-October, providing a foundation on the psychology of audience memory. Learn more about the series and access the pre-series session at research.unc.edu/postdocs.

Discover how storytelling can elevate your scientific presentations in this engaging workshop. Science and stories both revolve around problem-solving, yet they often seem worlds apart. This session will explore the similarities between the two and demonstrate how storytelling can be used ethically and effectively in technical presentations. You’ll learn about common story structures, how to apply them to your research, and how to ideate and uncover the core message of your presentation. The workshop will also delve into using analogies and metaphors as alternatives to traditional stories, helping you connect with your audience on a deeper level. By the end, you’ll understand the power of storytelling and how to apply these principles to create compelling scientific presentations.

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