News
October 3, 2024
One of the many ways that FPG fulfills its mission of transforming children's lives through innovation in research, practice, and policy is by collaborating with North Carolina state agencies and other partners. The Impact Center at FPG’s Build Up project is one of the most recent efforts to help partner organizations design effective systems for delivering their policy programs and activities.
EMERGE study to explore language trajectories of low-income, ethnically diverse children with autism
September 30, 2024
Researchers at UCLA and FPG will co-lead a unique project to assess behavioral and neurological markers of language development in low-income children within their family settings, gathering valuable information that could lead to earlier, more targeted interventions for a population that has been largely underrepresented in autism research.
September 25, 2024
FPG Faculty Fellow Cathi Propper, PhD, an associate professor at the UNC School of Nursing, has been awarded a new NIH R01 grant of $2,656,378 for a project titled, “Early Education, School Readiness, and Early School Success Among Children in Poverty: Exploring the Role of Parasympathetic Function in the Preschool Classroom.”
September 23, 2024
A recent study conducted by the Equity Research Action Coalition at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and the Gallup Center on Black Voices found a possible link between social connections and Black parents’ ability to cope with racism and discrimination.
