Category: December 2020

Orla and two other SPHS doctoral students had their project proposal funded through the UNC Graduate School’s Leadership Development Scholars Program. In Spring 2021, they will facilitate group readings and discussions with graduate students and faculty through their program. 

Jessica Goldblum, a graduate student in Developmental Psychology working in the Harrop Lab, was a recipient of a North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS) grant. The purpose of the NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program is to support the generation of preliminary data that will enable researchers to compete for external funding....

Dr. Harrop led the manuscript “Do Biological Sex and Early Developmental Milestones Predict the Age of First Concerns and Eventual Diagnosis in Autism Spectrum Disorder?” published in Autism Research. The study details sex differences in diagnosis and early developmental markers. Despite females receiving later diagnosis of ASD, biological sex was not predictive...