News
The faculty and grad students of MARSH Lab and the Hunger Stigma and Health (HuSH) Lab got together for the first annual boat day on Brookville Lake! We rented a pontoon boat for the afternoon. The weather was rough early in the morning but cooperated well enough to give everyone a nice chance to relax on the water!
Graduate student Jason Folmsbee has been awarded a $5,400 grant from the Mental Research Institute’s Healing Family Division program! In collaboration with Dr. Farrell, Dr. Heather Claypool at Miami University, and Dr. Pierce Ekstrom at University of Nebraska Lincoln, he will be conducting a daily diary study examining how political conflict between college students and parents affects parent-child relationship quality and belonging.
While attending the International Association for Relationships Research meeting, Dr. Farrell and colleagues received the IARR 2022 paper award for “Associations between language style matching and relationship commitment and satisfaction: An integrative data analysis,” lead by Dr. Sabrina Bierstetel. This award goes to the best paper published in an IARR journal in the previous year as selected by the IARR awards committee. Check out this paper here!
Undergraduate lab member Lauren Combs has received two grants from Miami, an Undergraduate Research Award and a Dean’s Scholar Award, to fund her senior honors thesis project with Dr. Farrell and grad student Erika Rosenberger on how social networks influence the well-being of asexual individuals. Congrats Lauren!
Undergraduate lab member Marcella-Alysia Argüello won the Miami University Department of Psychology Patton Prize! This award goes to an outstanding senior psychology major demonstrating exceptional academic performance and engagement in scholarly activities. Congratulations for this well-deserved award!
MARSH Lab went out to lunch to celebrate another successful year of psychological science and our graduating seniors!
Grad student Prit Patel will be spending the summer in California completing a User Experience Internship with Netflix!
The MARSH Lab has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation! The project, entitled “Early Life Antecedents Predicting Adult Daily Affective Reactivity to Stress,” will begin in Spring 2024 and run through 2027 in collaboration with researchers at University of Minnesota. This $648,655 grant will fund a new daily diary assessment with participants in the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation to explore how experiencing stress, maltreatment, and high quality parental care in the first few years of life predicts daily stress processes and coping. You can read more about the award here.
A new graduate student is joining the lab! Cole Holt is a second-year grad student at Miami University who is moving from the Biological, Cognitive, and Developmental area into Social Psychology. Cole earned his B.A. in Psychology co-majored with Neuroscience at Miami University. Afterwards, Cole spent time working in the medical field and eventually became a transcranial magnetic stimulation technician where he worked with a depressed population. Cole later earned his M.S. in Psychological Science at Northern Michigan University where he started his focus in researching generational differences within education. Currently, Cole is continuing his research investigating generational differences in various educational topics with the goal of enhancing student learning and instructor teaching in higher education. Cole is also an avid hiker and martial artist who loves spending his vacations in Oregon.
Lab member Bradley Beck, a freshman psychology member, will complete a a summer internship with Cincinnati Childrens Hospital’s Summer Treatment Program for children with ADHD. He will serve a counselor for the program, leading group activities, implementing behavioral modification procedures, providing feedback to children and parents, and recording behavioral data.
