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Congratulations to the Harrop Lab’s post-doc, Dr. Tyler McFayden, for being honored by the Academy of Child and Adolescent Mental Health as one of this years top 5 post-doctoral fellows! We are proud to see your hard work and dedication to the field recognized. More information on this year’s ACAMH...

We are excited to have three new undergraduate research assistants joining our lab this fall! Welcome Abbigail Waycaster (senior), Cecilia Young Bright (sophomore), and Jackson Peden (senior). Their full biographies for our new URAs can be found on the People page of our lab website. Additionally, we are excited to...

This month we said fairwell to Amanda Neal. Thank you Amanda for all your hard work as a research assistant for the Harrop Lab for the past two and a half years! Amanda Neal is now working towards her PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology at the University of South Alabama. She...

Harrop lab members Dr. Tyler McFayden, Sonny Russell, Maia Karpinsky, and Kimberly Liles presented posters at the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 2024 Future Directions Forum in Columbus, Ohio. Sonny was selected as a fellow for the Future Directions forum and Tyler was recognized as a past awardee...

Congratulations Dr. Clare Harrop on receiving Tenure! We are so excited to see your hard work and dedication recognized. Our lab had a great time celebrating Dr. Harrop’s accomplishments at a Taylor Swift themed Tenure party.

Thank you seniors! Harrop Lab seniors, Inyene Udoh, Macey Johnson, Meredith Brady, Sarah Harris and Sienna Halterman graduate with the UNC-CH Class of 2024. Thank you seniors for all your hard work in our lab – We are excited to see what the future holds for you!

Dr. Judi Miller who is one of our lead investigators of the SAGA Study at CHOP presented data on the emerging mental health profiles of autistic males and females at the 2024 International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Conference in Melbourne! It was great to see our emerging findings presented...

Postdoc, Tyler McFayden, recently gave a talk at the Autism Research Institute on her recent publication highlighting a novel white matter-language connection in the right arcuate fascicules in infants who later are diagnosed with autism at 24 months. The webinar can be rewatched here.

Macey Johnson (’24) defended her Honors Thesis focused on the experiences of autistic students at UNC. She was awarded funding from the Honors Society to complete this research. Congrats Macey!

The Harrop Lab welcomes Kimberly (Kim) Liles as a new research assistant. During her undergraduate degree Kim worked as an undergraduate research assistant and HDFS Intern in the Harrop Lab. Kim is excited to continue to persue her interests in studying masking and the experiences of late-diagnosed autistic individuals and...