News
December 8, 2025
Melissa Lippold, PhD, a faculty fellow at FPG, is an associate professor at the UNC School of Social Work. Her work informs the development of family-based interventions to strengthen family relationships and promote adolescent and parent well-being. Learn more about her work in this faculty fellow profile.
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.
