By: Lekha Pillarisetti As far as I can remember, I have always been invested in some type of research. Whether it was doing science projects in my garage in middle school, working over the summer at research internships or joining a research lab in college. However, the passion for research and the work that comes […]
By Arohi Gadagkar On December 3, Brad Kerr and five SMAHRT interns, Zoe, Grainne, Quin, Lekha and Amrutha, traveled to San Francisco, California for the Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium (PRISM). Below are the projects they presented at PRISM, along with some takeaways from attending the conference: Zoe: Research topic: Adolescents’ and […]
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 […]