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IDD Parent Advocacy Study Completes Last Parent Group

The IDD Parent Advocacy Study team is proud to announce that as of this month, our last cohort of parents and caregivers has completed their parent group sessions. This marks the end of our intervention period, and we will now look toward collecting follow-up data from parents and analyzing our findings. 

IDD Parent Advocacy Study Reaches Recruitment Goal of 404 Participants

Nearly a year and a half into recruitment, 404 parents and caregivers of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have enrolled in the IDD Parent Advocacy Study at UNC-Chapel Hill, marking the end of our team’s recruitment period. Parents and caregivers located throughout the United States – from North Carolina to California – have consented to participate in one of our two parent...

IDD Parent Advocacy Study Reaches Recruitment Goal of 404 Participants

A year into recruitment, the IDD Parent Advocacy study team has enrolled 300 participants for its study focused on activating parents and caregivers of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We hope to enroll a total of 404 participants in the three-year study, in order to successfully capture the effectiveness of the two parent intervention groups we’re assessing. 

Reflecting on Mental Health Awareness Month and Its Relation to Individuals with IDD

The National Association for Mental Health, modernly known as Mental Health America, first recognized May as Mental Health Awareness Month in 1949 to bring awareness to mental health conditions. Seventy-five years later, we commemorate this month with a strengthened understanding of what it means to have an often-invisible illness while still investigating how mental health conditions uniquely impact...

Commemorating Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week

The American Psychological Association (APA) recognizes May 7 as National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day. Organizations throughout the country turn to May – National Mental Health Awareness Month – to shed light on how children’s psychological well-being plays an indispensable role in their greater development.  

Meet the Expert: Lindsey James

Lindsey James, PhD ‘10, is the Director of Chemical Biology at the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, where she also serves as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry. Lindsey studies chromatin reader proteins –  proteins responsible for the recognition of post-translational modifications on...

Expanding Education Well Beyond the Clinical

Most consumers pay little mind to the work that’s done behind the pharmacy counter – work that ensures medications are filled at a moment’s notice. Yet, despite the bevy of behind-the-scenes work that’s performed to ensure its availability, affordability and efficacy, medication can fall victim to the same pitfalls of supply and demand that affect any other consumer goods.

Finding a Calling in Ambulatory Care

East of the Research Triangle – far from healthcare hubs and a medical metropolis – Holly Canupp, PharmD ’10, was raised on a small farm. The plot of land her father tended had been in his family for generations. Throughout her youth, Holly spent many Saturdays alongside her younger sister helping their father vaccinate the 3,500 hogs he managed each growing season. Their wake-up call was...

Student to Doctor — Double Tar Heel Chad Lloyd (MS ‘18; Ph.D. ‘23)

What do you find at the bottom of the ocean? As a doctoral student in the Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chad Lloyd (MS ‘18; Ph.D. ‘23) traveled far off the coast to understand how bacteria breaks down organic matter in the ocean. The shallow waves beach goers dive into and the deeper waters upon which Lloyd’s excursion boat floated offer diverse circumstances...

Isabel Soberal named Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship Program senior fellow for upcoming academic year

The Graduate School has named Isabel Soberal as its 2023-2024 senior fellow with its Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship program. Soberal is a master’s degree student in the Department of City and Regional Planning, housed within the College of Arts and Sciences. Soberal came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Weiss fellow shortly after graduating from Grand Valley State University in...

Cliff Keller (’22 Ph.D.) — Political and social dynamics of conflict

The road to graduate education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill looks different to each student who comes in pursuit of a higher degree. Cliff Keller is a Career Army Special Forces Officer at Fort Bragg. After serving in several deployments – from Afghanistan, to Kosovo and Latvia – and working for a U.S. Africa Command in Germany, Keller took on a new venture: a doctoral...

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