The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture. Catherine Bradshaw, PhD, MEd, will present, "School-Based Prevention of Behavioral & Mental Health Problems: Integrating and Advancing the Evidence Base."

The STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education (STEMIE) Center creates products and implements services to expand knowledge awareness, acquisition, and implementation of STEM evidence-informed practices. The STEMIE website is an essential part of the Center's work and so they recently redesigned it complete with new tools to ensure optimal access to and use of STEMIE’s many resources.

This May, the International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute will celebrate a quarter-century of longstanding work in early childhood inclusion at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. The milestone event will reflect on and honor the progress made and look toward a future where every child truly belongs.

With support from a one-year NC TraCS clinical and translational science pilot program grant, Ayse Belger, a faculty fellow at FPG, partnered with Alper Bozkurt, PhD, to develop a wearable stress-tracking device. The prototype device, designed to be worn on the user’s wrist, contains microcircuits that are self-powered by the wearer’s body heat, sweat, motion, and interstitial fluids, preventing the need to charge the device.

FPG Faculty Fellows are UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members who play a vital role at our Institute by fostering innovative and interdisciplinary work and increasing our collaborations and impact across campus and beyond. Discover new updates from two of our faculty fellows--Heather Wasser and Gabriel Dichter.

Jada Walker, MEd, is a project coordinator working in early care and education/Pre-K research at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG). As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with Walker to learn more about her work at FPG. See what she had to say.

Chih-Ing Lim, PhD, a senior technical assistance specialist at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG), and her three FPG colleagues Senior Technical Assistance Specialist Camille Catlett, MA, Technical Assistance Specialist Jessica Amsbary, PhD, and Technical Assistance Specialist Hsiu-wen Yang, PhD, have been awarded a 2024 UNC Rural Research and Engagement Award.

To share the most recent data on the accumulation and types of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, in North Carolina and the South, Daniel Gitterman, a Faculty Fellow at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, led the development of two new policy briefs, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in North Carolina, 2016-22 and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the South and U.S., 2022. The reports quantify the problem and help bring renewed attention to social policies that address child poverty and well-being.

Christine Harradine earned both her MA and PhD in Educational Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a long-time member of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) family. 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.