As a graduate student, being assigned a Teaching Assistant role for the first time–or with an expanded set of TA responsibilities–can feel daunting. This institute provides graduate students with functional skills central to their success in their TA roles. Sessions … Continued

The intent of this workshop is to provide graduate student TA’s guidance and practical approaches to maintain integrity in their teaching practices, identify and address their own implicit biases, and key aspects of FERPA. The workshop will be interactive and … Continued

Instructor: Todd BenDor, Professor of City and Regional Planning at UNC-CH How does academic publishing actually work? Where should you publish your research? How do you actually get papers accepted in strong academic journals? In this talk, we will discuss … Continued

Instructor: Alison Blaine, Data Visualization Specialist at Red Hat This course explains how to clean and analyze textual data using R, including both raw and structured texts. It will cover multiple hands-on approaches to getting data into R, focusing on techniques … Continued

Instructor: Ashley Amaya, Senior Survey Methodologist at the Pew Research Center In this course, participants will walk through several examples of error and map it onto the framework and provide exercises to come up with their own examples. They will also … Continued

Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Pharmacogenomics and Decision Support in the EHR, a free virtual mini-symposium from 1:00-3:00pm on Wednesday October 27. Presenters will explore mechanisms for predicting how a patient’s genome will influence their response to … Continued

Graduate and professional students and post docs in humanities/social sciences and STEM fields are cordially invited to participate in this virtual event put on by six North Carolina institutions (Duke, N.C. State, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, and Wake … Continued