The study aims to explore whether nutrition guidelines and food ranking systems are adopted by local food pantries, identify barriers and facilitators to following nutrition guidelines for pantries, and the impact on diet quality of children and youth from diverse, low-income families living in Central North Carolina. Also the study aims to evaluate the feasibility of a future pilot intervention using culturally and contextually appropriate educational and "nudge" approaches in food pantries.

To determine addiction medicine provider perspectives on pharmacy-based methadone dispensing.

We want to find out how people in North Carolina think about climate change and clean energy. To do this, we ask participants to sort statements about topics like protecting communities, using renewable energy, and paying for projects. By looking at how people group these statements, we can see what ideas are important to them. This information will help leaders and communities work together on plans that keep everyone safer and healthier in the face of climate challenges.

This study will gather feedback from state agency staff and summer meals sponsors on a Summer Meals Site Placement tool.

The purpose of this research study is to follow up on a survey conducted in Fall of 2023 by the UNC Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment's Outer Banks Field Site student researchers on social perceptions of light pollution in North Carolina's Outer Banks. The results of this survey will be published as a Senior Honors Thesis. The study seeks to inquire about more specific details of the survey's findings, hearing participants' detailed thoughts and opinions to the survey results and light pollution in general along the Outer Banks. These findings could potentially impact the way the Outer Banks manages light pollution in the future.

To what extent does the unequal distribution of local wealth explain disparities in social outcomes (education, health, upward mobility)? How do individuals think that inequality around them impacts their own lives? This study aims to provide explorative evidence on people's reasoning.

Most professionals working with JJ-involved youth have little understanding of how neuroscience and brain development can shape effective strategies for treatment. This gap in knowledge can lead to misconceptions about adolescent behavior, compromising the effectiveness of their approaches. There is also a gap in the connection between scientific research and practical application within the JJ system. This gap often results in the use of cookie-cutter programs that rarely address individual drivers of problem behavior. Enhancing the knowledge of JJ professionals about brain development promises to foster more informed and effective approaches to JJ-involved youth by equipping professionals with better understanding of root causes and drivers of problem behaviors and helping to determine more effective treatment plans. The program proposed here bridges this gap begins by developing a manual for JJ professionals about how brain science can be useful in addressing the needs of youth in the system.

We are specifically interested in understanding the knowledge, beliefs, patient identification, practice intervention, and future focus of pediatric migraine management by pediatric dentists and pediatric dental residents. This will allow us to evaluate the level of education and training, assess clinical exposure to pediatric patients presenting with migraine-associated symptoms, determine the level of interest among pediatric dentists in expanding their role in pediatric migraine management, and identify potential gaps in training to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration.

To evaluate the differences in outcomes after laser, open and staple diverticulotomy to determined the long term durability of these surgical interventions for patients with swallowing difficulty from Zenker's Diverticulum.

Identify acceptable and feasible school-based interventions for adolescent obesity prevention among adolescent girls in an informal settlement in Kenya