February 16, 2026
How does the learning environment foster a sense of belonging for every child? How does a teacher’s silence empower a child’s voice? These questions guided a recent site study in Japan, where FPG's Jani Kozlowski, partnered with Ryutaro Shintani, an assistant professor at Women’s College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto.
February 5, 2026
Ximena Franco-Jenkins is a Senior Research Scientist at FPG and Co-Director of FPG's National Implementation Research Network. With more than 20 years of experience in research evaluation and implementation science, her work focuses on high-quality dual language programs, enhancing socio-emotional and academic outcomes for multilingual learners, and improving early childhood education quality.
February 3, 2026
The McKinney Scholars Program, a 9-week paid summer internship, at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is now accepting applications for its 2026 summer cohort—the application deadline is Friday, February 27, 2026, at 5:00 pm.
January 29, 2026
A new article from UNC highlights how Brianne Tomaszewski, a faculty fellow at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine’s psychiatry department and Carolina’s TEACCH Autism Program, goes the extra mile to help new moms prioritize their well-being.
January 27, 2026
UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Thelma Harms Early Childhood Education Award—Ximena Franco-Jenkins, a senior research scientist at FPG, and Noreen Yazejian, FPG’s associate director for research, who is also a senior research scientist.
January 21, 2026
Thanks to an innovative collaboration between two units at FPG, stronger and more expanded behavioral health resources will be available for youth and families across the state of Virginia. FPG’s National Implementation Research Network and Impact Center have partnered to merge their practice models, tools, and resources for the Virginia Evidence-Based Practices Transformation Zone project.
January 14, 2026
Registration is now open for the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute's 26th annual International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute, which takes place May 19-21, 2026 (in-person and hybrid) and June 24-25 (virtual only). The event is designed for anyone caring for or teaching young children (from birth to age eight) with disabilities in inclusive environments.
January 12, 2026
Jani Kozlowski is a technical assistance specialist with the Early Childhood TA Center within the Trohanis Technical Assistance Projects at FPG. As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with Kozlowski to learn more about her work.
January 7, 2026
In this follow-up story, see what the 2025 Thelma Harms Early Childhood Education Award recipients, FPG's Chih-Ing Lim and Megan Vinh are working on now. They will give two presentations at the Inclusive Preschool Symposium 2026 on January 22 in Singapore.
January 4, 2026
The groundbreaking Abecedarian Project launched in 1972 at FPG. And while the project has been critically important in supporting the value of early care and education programs, there has been a lack of implementation data to highlight which elements were most impactful. A new mixed methods study of the project aimed to address this.
December 15, 2025
In this year’s impact report, you will get a glimpse of the crucial work being done here by our talented and dedicated scientists, specialists, scholars, and staff across a broad range of disciplines, including autism and developmental disabilities, child health and development, early care and education, and more.
December 8, 2025
Melissa Lippold, PhD, a faculty fellow at FPG, is an associate professor at the UNC School of Social Work. Her work informs the development of family-based interventions to strengthen family relationships and promote adolescent and parent well-being. Learn more about her work in this faculty fellow profile.
December 3, 2025
Book Babies, an early-literacy home visiting program, was developed to strengthen literacy promoting practices of families’ and children’s early literacy skills. To determine the efficacy of this program and whether its impacts vary by families’ language status, a team of scholars from FPG and the HighScope Educational Research Foundation evaluated the program.
December 1, 2025
The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is pleased to announce the 2025 awardee of the Joanne Erwich Roberts Early Career Award. Congratulations to Kylie Garber, a research scientist who works with pre-K evaluation projects in North Carolina and Georgia.
November 19, 2025
Noreen Yazejian has been named associate director for research at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Continuing in this role, which she previously held as interim, Yazejian supports research across the institute. She brings more than 30 years of experience and expertise to this role.
November 17, 2025
Lindsay Gomes, a research scientist at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, focuses her work on understanding the contextual factors that shape young children's social-emotional development within early care and education settings. As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with her to learn more about her work at FPG. Find out what she had to say.
November 13, 2025
As part of our FPG Faculty Fellow profile series, we recently spoke with Dr. John Gilmore. Find out about his professional journey, what keeps him motivated, and what being a faculty fellow at FPG means to him.
November 11, 2025
We spoke with some presenters and attendees at this year's International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute. In this article, you’ll hear from Sandy Flacke, the Maine Department of Education’s deputy director of the Office of Special Services and Inclusive Education and early childhood special education coordinator.
November 3, 2025
Gisele Crawford is a research specialist at FPG who has worked on numerous studies of young children and their environments and experiences, including large-scale studies of public pre-kindergarten in the United States. As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with Crawford to learn more about her work at FPG.
October 27, 2025
The International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute celebrated its 25th anniversary in May and we are already planning for 2026. Co-chairs Chih-Ing Lim and Sherri Britt Williams share insights about the event. And be sure to save the date for the 2026 event, which will take place in Chapel Hill and online May 19 through May 21, 2026.
