News Archive
June 6, 2022
FPG social research assistant Kylie Garber has received a postdoctoral fellowship from Society for Research in Child Development. Garber will soon move from Chapel Hill to Capitol Hill for this immersive one-year opportunity to learn about policy development, implementation, and evaluation, as well as how to use developmental science to inform U.S. public policy.
FPG researcher and UNC colleagues asked to create resources for autistic individuals impacted by war
May 31, 2022
FPG's Ann Sam and several UNC colleagues from the School of Education and the Department of Allied Health Sciences have answered a call for help from Ukraine, collaborating to create a compilation of simple-to-use resources, accessible online, to help families and others who care for autistic children and youth cope with the violence and uncertainty of war.
May 20, 2022
The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute's Implementation Division welcomes three interns for its third cohort of the Implementation Division Summer Internship Program.
May 20, 2022
A collaboration between STEMIE, the Kansas Deaf-Blind Project, and the Kansas State School for the Blind has resulted in the development of two video demonstrations on engaging young children with visual impairments in storybook conversations.
May 18, 2022
The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is proud to welcome its third cohort of interns to work with FPG for the Marvin H. McKinney Scholars Program in Research, Practice, and Policy. This program was established to offer hands-on research experience in child development to undergraduate students from North Carolina's HBCUs.
May 13, 2022
With its commitment to advancing science, FPG is dedicated to impacting and influencing the next generation of researchers. During the spring 2022 semester, Iheoma Iruka, PhD, founding director of FPG’s Equity Research Action Coalition, mentored four undergraduate students enrolled in Policy 698: Senior Capstone in Public Policy who undertook a project to determine the impact of reparations on Black children and families.
May 9, 2022
A new study from FPG Faculty Fellow, Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP, and colleagues in the Department of Pediatrics Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, titled “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among low-income, racially and ethnically diverse US parents," examines parent hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines for children.
May 4, 2022
FPG Faculty Fellow Kori B. Flower, MD, MPH, has been appointed the next Division Chief for General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at UNC and will assume this role on July 15, 2022. Flower’s appointment follows a national search conducted earlier this year.
April 28, 2022
Hannah Spitzer’s tenacity and determination have guided her educational journey--and this month, she was named the winner of this year’s Barbara Davis Goldman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for the research she conducts as an integral team member of Project EXPRESS.
April 22, 2022
FPG's Information Technology Services (ITS) core supplies a wide range of services to support and strengthen the projects, programs, and research endeavors of the Institute's investigators and partners. Learn more about FPG's ITS in this core update.
April 18, 2022
Just one year after reaching 200,000 users, the Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Modules (AFIRM) project at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has reached another milestone―250,000 users now rely on AFIRM for evidence-based practices that can help learners with autism.
April 13, 2022
FPG's International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute invites everyone involved in the care and education of young children with disabilities in inclusive settings to its upcoming annual conference. The event, being held April 26 – 28, will be hybrid, with both in-person and online components. UNC’s Friday Conference Center in Chapel Hill provides the setting for the in-person event, limited to 250 people to facilitate social distancing.
April 11, 2022
Over the years, people from more than 180 countries have relied on our publications and resources to support their work on behalf of children and families. In this publications roundup, we've gathered a few of our most recent (published in 2021) autism-related publications.
April 4, 2022
William Aldridge, PhD, is a senior implementation specialist at UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. His work includes active implementation support and evaluation research on the implementation and scale-up of evidence-based prevention/well-being strategies in communities and state, regional, and national service systems. He is currently principal investigator on the Implementation Capacity for Triple P projects.
March 27, 2022
Knowing the power of self-compassion, Karen Bluth, PhD, a Faculty Fellow at FPG, focuses her research on the relationship between mindfulness, self-compassion, and mental health in adolescents. Her most recent study, “Improving Mental Health Among Transgender Adolescents: Implementing Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens,” was published in Journal of Adolescent Research in December 2021.
March 21, 2022
You might not think that Lego bricks, ice cream, and gardening are related to teaching young children about computational thinking, but you would be mistaken. These examples of playful experiences are designed by researchers at the STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center (STEMIE), a center at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG).
March 13, 2022
New research findings from FPG Advanced Research Scientist Cathi Propper indicate that the ways in which infants at six months of age are parented exerts an influence on the children’s sleep quality at 18 months which, in turn, is associated with aggressive behavior in early childhood.
March 11, 2022
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, and much of our work focuses on disability research and improving outcomes and support systems for children with disabilities and their families. Below, we have gathered a few of our publications that examine and promote inclusion and equity for children with disabilities.
March 7, 2022
A recent joint effort by FPG’s ECTA Center and DaSy has resulted in indicators for nine established effective TA practices to embed equity in each practice. The practices are based on more than 50 years of stellar TA provision, ongoing collection and use of evaluation data, and existing literature.
March 2, 2022
Hsiu-Wen Yang will use the Joanne Erwich Roberts Early Career Award she recently received to identify mechanisms that bring research, practice, and policy together to promote family engagement practices in children’s social-emotional learning.
