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September 6, 2024
Utilizing her interdisciplinary experience in social science and epidemiology, Ping Chen specializes in conducting research focusing on social, environmental, behavioral, and biological linkages in developmental and life-course health trajectories. This interest led Chen, an advanced research scientist FPG, to collaborate with colleagues on “Polygenic risk, childhood abuse and gene x environment interactions with depression development from middle to late adulthood: A U.S. national life-course study,” which was published in June in Preventive Medicine.
September 4, 2024
Frances Campbell, PhD, a former longtime senior scientist at FPG and an internationally recognized expert on the transformative impact of early childhood education, died August 25, 2024, at 91. Campbell began her career as a clinical psychologist and came to FPG to help lead and evaluate the Abecedarian Project. She remained at FPG until her retirement at 88 and was an essential part of FPG’s history and growth, and her body of work is an enduring example of the influence FPG has on the lives of the children and families in North Carolina and beyond.
September 3, 2024
While there has been extensive research on parenting risk and protective factors for the general population, knowledge of parenting specific to queer youth—those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer, or other sexual minority identities—remains very limited. Recognizing this gap, two FPG Faculty Fellows joined with colleagues from Carolina and the University of Wisconsin at Madison to examine previous research. The findings, “Parenting and Queer Youth Mental Health and Substance Use: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis,” were published earlier this year in Adolescent Research Review.
August 29, 2024
Stephanie Kennedy, MSW, MPH, is an implementation associate with the National Implementation Research Network at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG). As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with her to learn more about her work at the Institute. Find out what she had to say.
