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Klinger Receives Grant to Study Interventions for Improving Employment Skills of Adolescents with ASD
Dr. Mark R. Klinger, Associate Professor, has received a two-year, $120,000 grant from Autism Speaks to research ways to better prepare adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for productive, long-term employment.

ºÚÁÏÍø to Launch Unprecedented Collaboration to Improve Services for Young Children with Autism and Their Families
January 13, 2014 – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a State Implementation Grant of $900,000 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve services for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families.

Grant Helps Fund Development of Hamstrings Muscle Stretching Prototype
Researchers with the ºÚÁÏÍø Department of Allied Health Sciences (DAHS) and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering have received $25,000 in seed grant funding from the Rehabilitation Engineering Center (REC) to further development of a hamstrings muscle stretching device prototype.
Pragmatic Clinical Trials Seminar
TraCS will sponsor a seminar on pragmatic trials on October 30, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Speakers will discuss what is different about pragmatic trials in terms of setting, design, and appropriate questions, including the informatics infrastructure needed to conduct this work. Current examples of pragmatic trials in the US may involve conduct within the setting of large integrate … Read more

Student Spotlight: Ashley Freuler
Occupational Science PhD candidate Ashley Freuler successfully defended her dissertation in the spring of 2013 and will graduate in August.

Faculty Honors and Achievements, Summer 2013
Woodward Named Radiologic Original * Watson Named ASHA Fellow * Renner Wins National Advising Award * Thorpe Delivers Keynotes, Receives APTA Award * Williams Selected for ACCLAIM Program

Staff Spotlight: Carty Husted
Dr. Carty Husted lives the best of both worlds.

Student Research News Summer 2013
Cunningham Receives SPARC Award * Hodson Completes NIH/NICD Summer Fellowship * Gomez Receives NICD Travel Award * Mamo Awarded New Century Scholars Doctoral Fellowship * White Receives NICD Grant * Wutzke Selected as Neuromuscular Plasticity Scholar * Timko Wins Diversity Award

Congratulations to Our PhD Program Graduates
(July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013)
NC TraCS Institute $5K-50K Pilot Grant Program
The NC TraCS Institute Pilot Grant Program has announced Tuesday, October 22, 2013 as the next submission deadline date for $5k-50k pilot grant proposals. TraCS is especially interested in, and will extend priority to, proposals with a focus on one of three areas: Transformative Technologies investigators using genomic, proteomic or metabolomics platforms to accelerate a translat … Read more