- Faculty & Staff
- May 30, 2024
Dear colleagues,
Faculty at SPH have access to a wide variety of opportunities for faculty development. The broad portfolio of programs and resources, which are described in the Faculty Handbook, includes our Faculty Development Seminar Series (FDSS). The FDSS is updated each semester to include seminars and workshops from three different sectors: SPH department-level events, SPH school-wide events, and University-wide events.
Here we highlight the events offered in June:
Department Events:
Biostatistics
- Biostatistics Seminar: Dr. Aasthaa Bansa – A Framework for Personalizing the Timing of Surveillance Testing; Thursday, June 20, 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm
Epidemiology
- Epi Seminar: Dr. C. Robert Horsburgh – Epidemiology of the Built Environment: Opportunity or Mirage?; Tuesday, June 4, 12 pm – 1 pm
- Epi Seminar: Dr. Ugochinyere Vivian Ukah – Health of mothers after severe maternal morbidity: A tale of three studies; Tuesday, June 13, 12 pm – 1 pm
Global Health
- GH Seminar: Madeline Ray – Language access in health for non-Spanish-speaking migrants in transit through Mexico: Preliminary results of a Fulbright research grant; Monday, June 24, 1 pm – 2 pm
School-wide Events:
- Faculty and Staff Writing Community; Friday, June 7, 11 am – 12:15 pm
- Public Health Conversation: Building A Diverse Biostatistics Pipeline: The Next Decade; Tuesday, June 11, 2 pm – 5:30 pm
- Public Health Conversation: Teaching Public Health: Transforming Education for Public Health; Wednesday, June 26, 9 am – 12 pm
University-Wide Events:
- Center for Teaching and Learning Open Office Hours for AI; Tuesdays, June 4, 18, and 25, 10 am – 11 am
- IS&T RCS Tutorial – Using and Building Containers on the SCC; Wednesday, June 5, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
- IS&T RCS Tutorial – Using GenAI Tools in RStudio for Code Development and Graphics; Thursday, June 6, 10 am – 12 pm
- IS&T RCS Tutorial – Advanced Topics in R: Code Optimization and Parallelization; Friday, June 7, 10 am – 12 pm
- Workshop: Rethinking the Media-Gentrification Nexus; Monday, June 10, 9 am – 4 pm
- IS&T RCS Tutorial – Introduction to OpenMP; Monday, June 10, 10 am – 12 pm
- IS&T RCS Tutorial – Python with Dask; Friday, June 14, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Please reach out to sphfro@bu.edu with any questions or if you would like to add any professional development seminars/workshops to the calendar.
Sincerely,
Mike McClean, ScD
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Advancement
mmcclean@bu.edu