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February 6, 2025
The STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education (STEMIE) Center creates products and implements services to expand knowledge awareness, acquisition, and implementation of STEM evidence-informed practices. The STEMIE website is an essential part of the Center's work and so they recently redesigned it complete with new tools to ensure optimal access to and use of STEMIE’s many resources.
January 31, 2025
Soon after Laura Klinger joined the faculty at UNC in 2011 as an associate professor in the department of psychiatry and as executive director of the UNC TEACCH Autism Program, she became a faculty fellow at UNC’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Her desire to connect with FPG stemmed from the Institute’s preeminent role in research on early child development, a natural fit for her research interests in autism.
January 27, 2025
Lisa Kristianson is a project coordinator at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG). As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with Kristianson to learn more about her work at FPG. Find out what she had to say.
January 23, 2025
With support from a one-year NC TraCS clinical and translational science pilot program grant, Ayse Belger, a faculty fellow at FPG, partnered with Alper Bozkurt, PhD, to develop a wearable stress-tracking device. The prototype device, designed to be worn on the user’s wrist, contains microcircuits that are self-powered by the wearer’s body heat, sweat, motion, and interstitial fluids, preventing the need to charge the device.
