The proposed project seeks to further our understanding of how teachers improve over time-and specifically how white teachers can become more effective teachers to students of color-by bridging three previously distinct literatures in education research: the returns to teaching experience, teacher peer effects, and the impacts of racial representation in the teaching force.

The goal of this study is to understand the drivers of coastal flooding in NC and assess residents' and government officials' perceptions of the risk and attitudes toward solutions.

We are evaluating the reliability of a new survey on food addiction, and exploring questions on eco-anxiety. We will also assess characteristics of and associations between food addiction, eco-anxiety, impulsivity, disordered eating, and depression. Information collected from this study will provide data for larger foundation or NIH grants.

The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between binge drinking in adolescence and behavior in adulthood, as well as the relationship between sleep and reactions to alcohol.

This study is to test a prototype for a jupyter widget that can be used to compare two sets of health records data to help detect selection bias.

Understand the extent research on CABs, supplementing that knowledge with insights from participatory action research with approximately 125 local government practitioners.

The aim of this study is to increase awareness and use of the haptics simulation lab at a research medical university using gamification. When the University of North Carolina Adams School of Dentistry first purchased dental case simulators (Simodont), they purchased two and put them in a room disassociated with the preclinical lab resulting in very little use of the simulators. In August of 2024, eight more simulators were purchase and all ten were moved to the preclinical lab. Orientations to the simulators were in the form of eModules on Canvas and face-to-face hands-on training. Faculty members desiring to use them in their courses met with the Simodont administrator to edit cases that came with the simulators. Currently first and second year dental students are using the simulated cases in their preclinical courses with the third and fourth year students already in the clinic attending to

I'm doing a project to learn how Lumbee food traditions are kept alive today. I'm talking with Lumbee community members about the meals they cook, the gardens they grow, and the stories they remember. These food traditions, like making cornbread or growing collards, help show who we are and where we come from. I want to understand how these traditions are passed down in families and shared in the community, even as times change. By recording these stories, I hope to help keep them alive for future generations.

To assess NC community pharmacists' awareness of fentanyl test strips, assess fentanyl test strip instruction preferences, comfort in educating patients about fentanyl test strips as well as referring patients to harm reduction organizations that provide fentanyl test strips.

This study seeks to understand how South American countries developed and implemented their migration policies towards Venezuelan migrants. The Venezuelan exodus is the largest modern migration movement in the Americas.