The purpose of this study is to identify factors that can aid in the design and implementation of a strong safety culture among Hispanic construction workers. The Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-Being will partner with a global engineering and construction management services company to assess the safety culture and sense of inclusion for the Hispanic workforce, which ultimately contributes to a safer environment and an industry with less worker injuries and fatalities

We intend to study sensations generated by spinal cord stimulation with the goal of using this knowledge to develop electrical interfaces that can restore loss of sensory function after neurological injury or disease.

This study will illustrate how place is created for older adults through connections among aging, environment, and occupation. I will use a narrative approach to examine how community-based organizational leaders relate stories of anticipated meaningful relationships among aging, environment, and occupation in a community-based Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness. Additionally, I will explore how older adults narrate their meaningful occupational engagement among these environmental contexts. Overall, I will assess the connections between community-based organizational leaders' related stories of how aging, environment, and occupation would be situated and older adults' narrated accounts of their occupational engagement among the Center's environmental contexts.

The purpose of this study is to understand how the graduate academic environment at UNC-Chapel Hill impacts mental health from the perspective of Black men in graduate degree programs. Participants in this study will be asked to participate in a semi-structured interview that will be virtual. This interview will last about 1 hour. Participants will be guided through prompts to bring out their views and experiences around graduate school and mental health. The insights gained from this study may inform a larger project on graduate student well-being and help develop future initiatives to support the health of Black men pursuing graduate degrees.

Through semi-structured interviews with Arab entrepreneurs and business owners, this project considers questions of immigration, identity, and local processes of action and decision making within the context of the food industry and entrepreneurship. The food industry was chosen as food is a significant symbol for identity, faith, and culture. There is also significant diversity of Arab-owned businesses in the food industry.

I will conduct focus groups with Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to see the effects of gender on migrants' access to state services like public schools and the police.

We are studying the ways that counties and municipalities are making decisions about how to use the opioid settlement funding.

We are surveying staff about how they use and think about comfort rooms at UNC Youth Behavioral Health

We would like to better understand what adverse symptoms occur after cardiac surgery and intensive care and how symptoms evolve over time. We will be following patients' symptoms from prior to their surgery to three months after ICU discharge.

This study aims to understand how PR and crisis communication professionals use and enact authenticity when using AI. This is important because AI tools and technologies are being integrated into the industry and there is a need to understand how this changes PR communication.