BAM students Divya Bhardwaj, Molly McCarthy, Diego Portillo, and Neha Navrange were awarded Academic Year Undergraduate Research Grants in the amount of $1,000 each to support their independent research projects in 2025.
Professor Engeln is featured in a Rolling Stone piece about social media and eating disorders.
Congratulations to Anne Zola, who will be joining Kellogg's doctoral program in Management and Organizations in the fall.
Congratulations to Courtney Goldenberg, who will be heading to Texas Tech to join their doctoral program in clinical psychology in the fall.
BAM students Molly McCarthy and Neha Navrange were awarded grants in the amount of $4,000 each to pursue their summer research projects in 2024.
Congratulations to BAM graduate Olivia Foster-Gimbel, who will be joining Rutgers Business School as a faculty member in their Department of Management and Global Business.
Professor Engeln is featured in a piece for The Cut about the increase in teenagers worried about aging.
Professor Engeln is featured in a New York Times piece about fitness influencers.
BAM students Divya Bhardwaj, Molly McCarthy, Diego Portillo, Elah Unger-Levinson were all awarded grants in the amount of $4,000 each to pursue their summer research projects.
Professor Engeln is featured in an NPR piece about TikTok's Bold Glamour filter.
Professor Engeln is featured in a New York Times piece about "midsize" models.
Téa Baum has been awarded an Academic Year Research Grant in the amount of $1000 to study the effect of appearance compliments in romantic relationships.
Professor Engeln is featured in a New York Times piece about how to feel better naked.
Harlym Pike wins the Hunt Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology.
Professor Engeln is featured in a Bustle article about the perils of promoting “natural beauty.”
Professor Engeln is interviewed by the Washington Post about the controversy surrounding a recent Adidas ad.
In an article in Popular Science, Professor Engeln discusses the danger of comparisons on Instagram.
Ilyana Schlesinger has been awarded an Academic Year Research Grant in the amount of $1000 to study how model body size affects consumers’ perceptions of clothing.
Professor Engeln is interviewed for a Washington Post piece on how the pandemic can help women re-evaluate beauty rituals.
Professor Engeln is featured in a New York Times piece on how the pandemic is affecting the desire to change one’s appearance.
Professor Engeln is featured on the podcast OneClick with Elle Fanning.
Professor Engeln is featured in a Parents.com story on the popularity of corsets among young girls.
Anne Zola, Ryan Loach, Megan Imundo, and Professor Engeln’s research on the impact of Instagram on body image is featured in The Observer .
Marren Jenkins has been awarded an Academic Year Research Grant in the amount of $1000 to study the influence of different types of sex ed curricula on women’s feelings of sexual agency.
Professor Engeln’s writing on “beauty sickness” is featured in a Wired story on the dangers of Instagram use.
Professor Engeln and Anne Zola publish an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune describing their recently published research on how often women’s (vs. men’s) clothing is painful, distracting, or uncomfortable.
Professor Engeln is featured in a CNET piece on the influence of social media on eating disorders.
Professor Engeln is featured in a Popular Science piece on Instagram’s influence on mental health.
Harlym Pike has been awarded an Academic Year Research Grant in the amount of $1000 to continue her project on racism and anti-fat bias in the body positivity movement.
Dana Lurie will be heading to law school at Harvard University in the fall.
Courtney Goldenberg and Harlym Pike have each been awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant in the amount of $3500.
Rachel Epstein will be attending Boston University's Master's Program in Genetic Counseling.
Annie Gevertz will be attending the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing for an Accelerated BSN/MSN program to become a Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with an Oncology Concentration.
Professor Engeln is featured in a Vox video piece about beauty culture.
Professor Engeln is featured in a CNET story about social media.
Professor Engeln is featured in a Washington Post story about the focus on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's appearance.
Anne Zola wins the Hunt Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology.
Professor Engeln is featured in a HuffPost article about fostering positive body image in your children.
Eliza Beth, Dana Lurie,Emma Meyerhoff, Anamaria Sayre, and Anne Zola have been awarded travel grants to present their research at the 2019 Association for Psychological Science convention in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations to Sarah Johnson, who will be starting a doctoral program in Clinical Psychology this fall at the University of Kansas. She'll be working with Dr. Kelsie Forbush.
Anne Zola will begin a graduate program at Oxford University in the fall, "Social Science of the Internet".
Professor Engeln is interviewed about beauty sickness and eating disorders for the Full Bloom Podcast.
Natalie Stern will begin medical school at University of Pittsburgh in the fall.
BAM lab research on fitness instructors' motivational comments and how they affect body image is covered in The Daily Mail.
Anne Zola receives a $1,000 Undergraduate Research Grant from Northwestern to fund her work on the cognitive costs of self-objectification.
BAM Lab research on self-compassion is covered by Newsweek.
Professor Engeln is a guest on KQED - Forum (San Francisco Public Radio).
Mike Sladek earned his PhD in Developmental Psychology at Arizona State University. He's off to a post-doc at Harvard in the fall. Congratulations, Mike!
Congratulations to Robbie Gomez who completed his masters degree in counseling at Northwestern University.
Congratulations to BAMs Anne Zola and Eliza Beth (both class of 2019) for each being awarded a $3,500 summer undergraduate research grant.
Congratulations to BAM alum (class of 2013) Lisa Velkoff, who was recently awarded the prestigious RSH graduate scholarship from the Academy of Eating Disorders.
Megan Imundo will be entering the doctoral program in cognitive psychology at UCLA this fall. She'll be working in the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab.
Olivia Foster-Gimbel will enter the NYU Stern School of Business in the fall. She'll be pursuing a doctorate in Management and Organizations.
Professor Engeln is interviewed about the influence of photo filters on plastic surgery trends, by Huffington Post.
Megan Imundo, Ryan Loach, Ellen Wu, and Anne Zola have been awarded travel grants to present their research at the 2018 Association for Psychological Science convention in San Francisco.
Professor Engeln is interviewed about the link between sexual orientation and eating concerns, by NBC News.
Ryan Loach receives a $1,000 Undergraduate Research Grant from Northwestern to fund his work on social media and body image.
Professor Engeln is interviewed about the link between high-heeled shoes and objectification, in The New York Times.
Professor Engeln is interviewed about "Get Ready with Me" videos, in Racked.
Professor Engeln is interviewed about whether "strong" is the new "skinny", in Women's Health magazine.
Sarah Johnson wins the Hunt Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology.
Vilte Baliutaviciute, Sarah Johnson, Megan Imundo, and Ryan Loach win travel grants to present their research at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston.
Annie Gevertz and Megan Imundo present their research at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago.
Professor Engeln discusses her book, Beauty Sick, on Good Morning America.
Rachel Salk first authors a major meta-analysis on gender differences in depression published in Psychological Bulletin.
Mike Sladek presents research in collaboration with BAM director Renee Engeln and Rachel Salk at the International Conference on Eating Disorders in Prague.
Professor Engeln’s book, Beauty Sick, is featured in the Times of London.
Professor Engeln discusses Beauty Sick on Chicago Tonight.
Robbie Gomez joins the providers on staff at The Art of Balance.
Margaret Shavlik, Olivia Foster-Gimbel, Sarah Johnson, and Natalie Stern present their research at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago.
Natalie Stern wins the Hunt Award for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Psychology.
Olivia Foster-Gimbel’s research on anti-fat bias is covered in The Daily Beast.
Vilte Baliutaviciute and Sarah Johnson are awarded Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Academic Year grants.
Megan Imundo and Natalie Stern are awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Grants.