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Published works featured in EdNC.org, Chapel Hill Magazine, Carolina Pharmacy and more.
Ice Cream Gets Weird & Wonderful
Published to Raleigh Magazine ∙ August 2025
Go beyond the freezer aisle and savor the rest of summer with quirky + delicious local frozen desserts.
As Selena Gomez sings in her 2020 pop ballad with BLACKPINK: “Baby, you deserve a treat.” And why settle for all those average store-bought ice cream pints? As summer slips slowly away—yet temps remain high—it’s only right to ride out the rest of the season with...
Meet the Team — Avery White
Published to IDD Parent Advocacy Study News ∙ August 2025
Avery White is one of the project coordinators on the IDD Parent Advocacy Study Team. He joined the team in 2023 and has since worked alongside more than 200 families from their initial recruitment to their final follow-up survey completion. Our team sat down with Avery to learn a bit more about the coordinator many parents and caregivers have gotten to know through their inbox.
Women of Achievement: Ronit Freeman
When a project comes to mind for Ronit Freeman, she first turns to pen and paper. Be it an implantable medical device to autonomously administer treatment for patients living with chronic illness, a rapid test to help detect COVID-19 or synthetic cells for biomanufacturing, Ronit draws an idea and reverse engineers it to life. “If you envision it, you can do it,” she says.
Commending Parents and Caregivers of Youth With IDD: Mental Health Awareness Month
Published to IDD Parent Advocacy Study News ∙ May 2025
Caring for a child with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD) can place substantial stress on parents and caregivers. A systematic review of this population identified factors such as behavioral problems, stigma and financial strain as stressors some parents of youth with IDD experience. As a result, several studies, as indicated in the systematic review, have found parents and...
IDD Parent Advocacy Study Reaches Recruitment Goal of 404 Participants
Published to IDD Parent Advocacy Study News ∙ January 2025
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...
Reflecting on Mental Health Awareness Month and Its Relation to Individuals with IDD
Published to IDD Parent Advocacy Study News ∙ June 2024
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
Published to IDD Parent Advocacy Study News ∙ May 2024
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
Published to Carolina Pharmacy ∙ June 2023
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...
Master's Thesis: "What are you trying to tell me? Neurodevelopmental Disorder Care Across North Carolina"
Published to Carolina Digital Repository ∙ May 2023
Individuals seeking healthcare in rural America experience a simplified model of treatment in comparison to their metropolitan counterparts. When met with various ailments, rural residents turn to their primary care physicians for answers whereas those in medically dense regions are offered specialty care. When it comes to caring for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, accessing ...
Expanding Education Well Beyond the Clinical
Published to Carolina Pharmacy ∙ May 2023
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.
Student to Doctor — Double Tar Heel Chad Lloyd (MS ‘18; Ph.D. ‘23)
Published to UNC Graduate School News ∙ May 2023
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...
Published to UNC Graduate School News ∙ April 2023
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