News Archive
August 17, 2020
Meet our Learning and Development Senior Strategist Wendy Morgan, whose work helps others build projects that support the healthy development of children in our community.
August 13, 2020
The 2020 Impact Report is now available. In this year's report, you'll learn about the ways in which we're re-rooting ourselves in proven areas of excellence—such as early care and education—and branching out where we see outstanding needs.
August 4, 2020
Last month, FPG welcomed ten new members to its Executive Leadership Board, which was established in 2001 to guide the Institute in its mission to conduct research that makes a difference in children's lives, supports families, and informs public policy.
August 3, 2020
Marvin McKinney has spent his entire career committed to breaking down barriers of racial and economic inequality that put children, and their meaningful development in this world, at risk. Now a program dedicated to supporting and cultivating young scholars bears his name.
July 23, 2020
The Institute of Education Sciences has awarded two new grants to investigators at FPG for their continued work to advance the field of early learning.
July 21, 2020
FPG's Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA) has produced a new collection of videos to help support both families of young children with disabilities and their practitioners in successful virtual visits.
July 13, 2020
Seven members of FPG's Executive Leadership Board retired at the end of June, having offered many collective years of dedicated service to the Institute and its mission of advancing knowledge that transforms the lives of all children.
Research on Teacher Perspectives Earns Jordan McNeill the 2020 James J. Gallagher Dissertation Award
June 29, 2020
McNeill was awarded this year's James J. Gallagher Dissertation Award for her research examining early-career teacher perspectives about how evidence-based practices for students with autism are implemented in classrooms.
June 25, 2020
Julie Austen says that the nontraditional path she found herself on informs her whole-hearted dedication to the kinds of systems-level change and capacity building that advances the quality of life for all children.
June 17, 2020
A UNC alumna, Katherine Fordham Neer comes to FPG with almost 20 years of experience in communications and marketing across a range of organizations, from private companies to academic institutions, and non-profits to the fortune 500.
June 15, 2020
FPG's National Implementation Research Network will host a free, virtual session of the 2020 Summer Institute for Implementation Science June 18, 2020, in partnership with the Jordan Institute for Families in the UNC School of Social Work.
June 11, 2020
Sherika Hill, PhD, joined FPG on June 1, as Research and Policy Liaison ready to help researchers build bridges between their discoveries and those who will benefit from them most.
June 4, 2020
We wish to offer our condolences to the families of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others whose lives were taken by persons—some sworn to protect—who refused to recognize their humanity and right to life . . .
May 28, 2020
FPG continues to find original and groundbreaking ways to position its work under our strategic plan, which builds on the Institute's legacy as one of the nation's foremost multidisciplinary centers devoted to the study of children from infancy to adolescence.
May 26, 2020
FPG's Implementation Division is pleased to welcome four interns for its inaugural cohort of the Implementation Division Summer Internship Program.
May 22, 2020
FPG is proud to welcome its first interns for the newly created Summer Internship for Underrepresented Students, Dylan Brown and Briana Blakeney.
May 18, 2020
Allegra Midgette discusses her research on children's and adolescents' social and moral development, the influence of culture on development, and how families and teachers can support their children in becoming better people.
May 5, 2020
UNC senior Morgan Whithaus has a passion for teaching and, thanks to an internship with TRI, a new skill set for providing evidence-based reading instruction for young students struggling in learning how to read.
April 29, 2020
Allison Metz will appear on a panel for the webinar "Learn to Develop a Preventive Child Welfare Practice Model for the Family First Act," hosted by the Anne E. Casey Foundation on April 29, at 1:00 pm EST.
April 27, 2020
Investigators at FPG have completed an updated systematic review of literature related to interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorder, uncovering new information on what practices produce positive outcomes for children and youth through age 22.
