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EDIT-Ted: What Does My Headscarf Mean to You? by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
The SPH Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Team (EDIT) invites all Students, Faculty and Staff to join us for an open dialogue around these topics, to help build an open space within the SPH community to bring questions and concerns. For this session we will watch a brief talk on Ted.com by Yassmin Abdel-Magied, "What Does My Headscarf Mean to You?," during the first fifteen minutes, and spend the rest of the hour discussing this topic. Unconscious bias is a prevalent…
Find out more »Mold Recognition and Remediation Course
Mold Remediation training This one-day course will feature practical information for recognizing mold in residential and commercial buildings. Course participants will use a moisture meter and receive hands-on training. Activities in this course include: identifying specific molds and associated health hazards, selecting protective equipment, and performing control containment or confinement. There are no prerequisites. Continuing Education Units are provided. To register: Go to hazmat.umn.edu and select Mold Remediation or call 612.624.2345. Student discounts are available upon request.
Find out more »Faculty and Staff Recognition Celebration
The School of Public Health Recognition Celebration honors faculty and staff who have been nominated by colleagues and students for their outstanding achievements in areas such as service and public engagement, innovative and creative teaching, research, the development and advancement of others, leadership leading to improvements in programs and processes, and more! The event also recognizes faculty and staff for their continuous years of service to the school.
Find out more »Division of Biostatistics Plan B Presentation with Benjamin Mayhew
Masters candidate in Biostatistics, Benjamin Mayhew, will present: "Happy Roads: Estimating the Impact on Mood of Travel Routes Through a City Road Network" Plan B Adviser: Julian Wolfson Abstract: Research in environmental psychology has established the affective and cognitive benefits of exposure to natural environments over built environments. With 68% of the world’s population projected to live in cities by 2050, research is needed to discern the specific factors that cause built environments in cities to have such relative negative…
Find out more »Division of Biostatistics Plan B Presentation with Ella Chrenka
Masters candidate in Biostatistics, Ella Chrenka, will present: "Performance of Imputation in Data with Planned Missingness: Comparison of Single and Multiple Imputation Methods" Plan B Adviser: Ashley Petersen Abstract: This study presents how well methods of simple and multiple imputation perform when used to impute 80% of the values for a predictor of interest. Motivated by ongoing research by Shannon Cigan, simulated data sets with observed predictors age, gender and race, urinary cadmium with 80% of the values missing, and…
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