By: Grainne McDonagh, Lekha Pillarisetti, Sydney Trinrud, and Zoe Stratman As teens working alongside social media researchers, we saw many flaws in how Facebook withheld important data regarding adolescent health and how journalists shared the story. We read the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times articles and listened to the Journal podcast […]
By Brad Kerr I have gotten to spend ten years researching a topic I find interesting and important: social media and adolescent health. These research experiences do not, however, mean I am a trendsetting or even trend-following person when it comes to social media platforms. I created a Facebook account because I was excited to […]
Created by: Elise Goldstein Our interns didn’t let the COVID-19 pandemic stop them from brainstorming, collecting, analyzing and presenting their independent research projects at the 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS). This year our interns completed projects on a wide array of topics including the impact of virtual school on motivation, the body positive movement on […]