Category: August 2023

The Harrop Lab welcomes first year doctoral students Margaret (Mags) McAllister and Alison (Sonny) Russell! Mags is a doctoral student in Speech and Hearing and is interested in studying personal and communicative functions of echolalia and repetitive behaviors for autistic individuals. Sonny is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology and...

1st year doctoral student, Mags McAllister (SPHS) was appointed to Royster Society of Fellows at UNC. This prestigious fellowship provides Mags with additonal funding, resources, and training during her doctoral program and beyond. A well-deserved honor!

Dr. Harrop, together with Drs. Chan and Klinger, were recently awarded a two year R21 award from NIMH to examine how social connections associate with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in older autistic and non-autistic adults. This project extends our recently completed OAR-funded study and will include GPS/GIS tracking, daily dairies...