Kirsten A. Nyrop, PhD, (UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) will describe how the U.S. obesity epidemic, which has disproportionately impacted communities of color, impacts cancer risk and outcomes, with a specific focus in breast cancer disparities.
Join The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History as they present the African American History Month Lecture with Dr. Marcia Chatelain. Dr. Chatelain is a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 2015), she … Read more
The 2022 CIDD “Virtual” Community Talk Series presents: Disability and Dating: Romantic Relationships - A Panel Discussion Join us for a panel discussion featuring people with disabilities and their experiences with dating and romantic relationships. Moderated by: Michelle Ballasiotes, BSPH, OTS – Occupational Therapy Student and LEND SelfAdvocate Trainee. She has a form of cerebral … Read more
In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015.
Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist who escaped slavery and committed himself to social activism thereafter. To remember him today, read his most famous of his autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
A Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early saints named Valentinus. Typically associated with romantic love and celebrated by people expressing their love via gifts.
Also known as Nirvana Day in Mahãyãna Buddhism, this day is the annual festival that commemorates the death of Buddha after he reached his final nirvana. Buddhists often celebrate this day by visiting Buddhist temples or monasteries and meditating.
The first significant feast after the Chinese New Year, named for watching Chinese lanterns illuminate the sky during the night of the event.
Susan B. Anthony was one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. She’s remembered as a champion of labor rights, abolition, temperance, and equal pay for equal work.
A Hindu festival especially for worshippers of Lord Vishnu. Millions of devotees take a holy bath on this day. Devotees also carry out charity work on this day.