News
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 the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute 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.
