Week of Events
16TH ANNUAL NIH CAREER SYMPOSIUM, MAY 8-10, 2023
The Annual NIH Career Symposium aims to highlight the diversity of career choices available to your generation of biomedical researchers. Whether you are a new graduate student, postdoc, or clinical fellow just beginning to consider career options or a senior student/fellow ready to look for a job, the NIH Career Symposium is for you.
Leadership Luncheon: Interpersonal Skills for Scientists
Leadership Luncheon: Interpersonal Skills for Scientists
Have you ever wondered how to be a professional that communicates clearly across contexts, ways to develop your own conversation skills, or how communication skills can impact your academic career progress and career transitions? Come chat with Dr. Filonova over a free lunch!
People Skills 101 – The Scientist Edition
People Skills 101 – The Scientist Edition
Join Irina as she coaches on how to understand the foundational skills needed for successful interpersonal interactions, and practice essential skills to increase your influence and effectiveness. Irina will talk us through how to identify assumptions, beliefs and/or blind spots that might undermine relationship building, how to use a cross-cultural lens to effectively understand interpersonal interactions. (Co-sponsored by GPB, SBBS, WinS, SACNAS, STEM Pride)
Communication Across Borders
Communication Across Borders
This interactive session introduces tools and frameworks to facilitate information exchange and to create engaging conversations about what matters to scientists and society. (Co-Sponsored by SWAC, GPB, DSS)
Duke Regulatory Affairs Training Program
Duke Regulatory Affairs Training Program
Duke University’s School of Medicine is running a Regulatory Affairs Training Program that is open to UNC postdocs. The program runs for 6 weeks and consists of weekly 1-hour online lectures combined with independent study. This program provides an overview of premarket regulatory work related to drugs, biologics, and medical devices.
Baseball Social with PDA
Baseball Social with PDA
The UNC Postdoctoral Association would like to invite you to join them on Friday, May 12 at 6PM for a local UNC baseball game! UNC will be playing NC State at Boshamer Stadium (235 Ridge Road, Chapel Hill, NC). Tickets are free to postdocs who wish to attend (while supply lasts). To get a ticket, simply show your OneCard or work badge to the stadium ticket office the day of the game; you can receive up to 4 tickets for yourself and immediate family. Gates and ticketing open one hour before the game. Postdocs will meet 30 minutes before the game near the ticket office - keep an eye out for the postdoc sign! Evening/weekend parking is available nearby at the S11 and Craige parking decks, if you have a parking pass. If you are planning on attending, please fill out this form so we know how many people plan to join us and so we can communicate any changes with you! We hope to see you there!