News Archive
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.
February 28, 2022
Ronald Seifer, PhD, joined FPG as associate director for research in December 2019, just months before Covid-19 upended the world. As a developmental psychologist, Seifer focuses his research on studying individuals in person, something that has been difficult during the pandemic. Yet Seifer and his colleagues have adapted and continued their research to improve the lives of young children and their families.
February 18, 2022
FPG's Implementation Division is seeking up to three graduate students to join its summer internship program in 2021. The program is designed to create a challenging and meaningful professional experience for the trainee that includes mentoring, networking, professional development, and experiential learning opportunities.
February 16, 2022
Autism intervention researchers often do not report the race and ethnicity of study participants. When data is reported, there is a lack of representation across historically minoritized racial and ethnic groups. These key findings were reported in, “Patterns in reporting and participant inclusion related to race and ethnicity in autism intervention literature: Data from a large-scale systematic review of evidence-based practices” published in the journal, Autism, in January 2022.
February 15, 2022
The STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education (STEMIE) Center, in partnership with Bridge Multimedia and Fable Vision, recently launched version one of their new web app that seeks to help young children learn about science, technology, engineering, and math by exploring the world around them together with the adults in their lives.
February 14, 2022
The NAGC recently announced the creation of the James J. Gallagher Memorial Fund, which is designed to address the need for complex, interdisciplinary discussions concerning gifted education. Gallagher, a renowned child development expert, served as the Director of FPG for more than 25 years.
February 3, 2022
Scholars know that early life stress exposures are associated with adverse health outcomes and heightened anxiety symptoms in adolescents. Wanting to explore this further, FPG's Aysenil Belger, her graduate student Rachel Corr, and an interdisciplinary team of investigators from UNC and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia examined the impact of exposure to multiple categories of victimization (polyvictimization) on brain circuits associated with acute stress responses and contributions to mental health.
January 25, 2022
It's time to apply to be part of the McKinney Scholars Program 2022 cohort; applications are due on February 24th.
January 24, 2022
The world has changed significantly in the more than 40 years since researchers at FPG developed the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS), now in its third edition. To address these changes and ensure that the rating measures remain relevant and useful in a diverse world, FPG co-principal investigators Noreen Yazejian and Iheoma U. Iruka recently launched a study, “ECERS-3: Identifying Gaps and Equity Challenges.”
January 24, 2022
With this upcoming virtual series, NIRN will provide a unique opportunity for the implementation science community to come together and participate in the alignment of the implementation support practitioner core competencies to activities within the implementation stages.
January 17, 2022
Research scientist Sandra L. Soliday Hong was recently named head of FPG's Policy Division, which focuses on translating and communicating the results of FPG's rigorous research, evaluation, implementation, and technical assistance work into effective federal, state, and local policies.
January 10, 2022
Hsiu-Wen Yang, PhD, a technical assistance specialist at FPG, has been elected to the Executive Board of the Division for Early Childhood. Yang’s term as the new treasurer will begin in July 2022. Learn about her work on the STEMIE team, and how she strives to address families' and practitioners' needs, priorities, and concerns.
January 3, 2022
With the 2021 launch of FRONTIER (Fostering Research on Neuro-Prevention via Infrastructure, Education and Relationships), founder and director Diana Fishbein is furthering her mission of mitigating the impacts of adversity and promoting healthy development for children and adolescents.
December 21, 2021
Throughout the year, the Institute shares information about FPG projects and publications and highlights some of this work—and the people doing it—on its website. As 2021 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of the news stories we’ve highlighted over the last 12 months.
December 20, 2021
The Impact Center at FPG has created an exciting new resource, “Implementation Science at Work.” The podcast, which dropped its initial three episodes in November, explores questions and strategies in implementation science including tackling community health issues, reducing health disparities, and improving community and population outcomes through building capacity.
