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Authentic transformation in the higher education classroom

Zoom online meeting

An initiative sponsored by the Society for the Advancement in Biology Education Research (SABER) focused on promoting awareness, understanding and commitment to change academic biology environments to be more inclusive and strive for racial justice in STEM education. This 7-part series includes four discussions and three research seminars with the intended audience of biologists and … Read more

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Health Care Safe Zone Training

Zoom online meeting

Health Care Safe Zone is a four-hour alternative to Standard Safe Zone that similarly introduces concepts, terminology and resources related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.The curriculum also covers LGBTQ health disparities, health resources, and common health professional scenarios, along with a terminology primer and strategies for allyship. This training is intended to … Read more

Implicit and Explicit Bias Series: Bias in Research 9/22

Zoom online meeting

This training is geared specifically toward research teams. The session will examine implicit and explicit biases in research and provide strategies for researchers to be more diverse and inclusive in their research design and approaches. This is the first offering of this event; interested individuals should only register for one session (next event schedule on … Read more

Structures of Inequality: Systemic Racism & Education

online webinar

Join Honors Carolina and Phi Beta Kappa Society for the second talk of the six part series, Systemic Racism and Education presented by Constance Lindsay, assistant professor of Education. Lindsay earned a doctorate in human development and social policy from Northwestern University, where she was an Institute of Education Sciences’ predoctoral fellow. Since leaving Northwestern, … Read more

Dismantling Racism in Academia Journal Club and Discussion Group: Student Retention

Graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff in the biomedical sciences (and beyond) are invited to join in on a monthly DRA Journal & Discussion Club, a series of discussions focused on a variety of journal articles, books, podcasts, and other media. This session will focus on Student Retention. Podcast: Blackademia, Ep. 3 News Article: The Guardian, 2018 … Read more

BCBP National Postdoc week celebration lunch

UNC BCBP Postdocs, Thank you to everyone for your contributions to the department! You are the best! Brandwein's Bagel's will be providing breakfast bagels and lunch sandwiches for postdocs and research scholars in the biochemistry and biophysics department. See Holly's email to postdocs from week of September 14, 2020 for pick up details.  

An Evening with the Rev. William Barber

Zoom online meeting

Please join UNC School of Social Work for the inaugural event of their new Centennial Speaker Series. How can we, as individuals and communities, become anti-racist? What can we do as activists and as social workers? As a pastor, a professor, an author, the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement and much more, Rev. … Read more

Implicit and Explicit Bias Series: Bias in Research

Zoom online meeting

This training is geared specifically toward research teams. The session will examine implicit and explicit biases in research and provide strategies for researchers to be more diverse and inclusive in their research design and approaches. This is the second offering of this event; interested individuals should only register for one session (previous event was on … Read more

2020 Women in Medicine Conference

online webinar

Registration is open for the 2020 Women in Medicine Conference. This year’s conference will be held virtually on September 25, 2020. The Association of Professional Women in Medical Sciences (APWIMS) and the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development invite you to register for the 2020 Women in Medicine Conference. This year’s conference will be held virtually … Read more