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July 24, 2025
This impact story from the Early Childhood Technical Assistance (ECTA) Center at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute highlights how the Illinois State Board of Education along with the preschool inclusion initiative Early CHOICES worked with ECTA to receive two-years of intensive technical assistance to establish inclusive classrooms.
July 22, 2025
The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is pleased to welcome Lucelmo Lacerda, PhD, a visiting scholar who will be working with FPG senior research scientists Sam Odom, PhD, and Ann Sam, PhD. We recently spoke with Lacerda to learn more about his work and his path to FPG—here’s what he had to say.
July 17, 2025
Kylie Garber, a research scientist at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has conducted a landscape analysis of current North Carolina programs that support child care providers, specifically with social-emotional development. Her work is detailed in Supporting Social-Emotional Development in North Carolina Child Care Programs.

July 10, 2025
Jean Jarrett, a graduate student in the department of health sciences speech and hearing sciences at the UNC School of Medicine, was recently named the winner of the 2025 James J. Gallagher Dissertation Award from the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. The award honors the legacy of the late Jim Gallagher, FPG director from 1970 to 1987 and provides a $4,500 stipend.