News & Presentations
News
• Sep 18, 2023 - Check out Judy’s award video from her election as 2023 mentor of the year!
Positive Emotion and Starbucks Coffee!
• Aug 31, 2023 - Judy’s No Small Endeavor podcast episode is featured on the Starbucks App!
• July 2023 - Hear Judy talk about our lab’s work on the No Small Endeavor podcast with Lee C. Camp: “What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits, practices, and dispositions that contribute to authentic human flourishing?”
Day 2 of the FOREST Retreat
• Apr 6-7, 2023 - Judy, Liz, and our partners at READI Chicago hosted a two-day retreat with area professionals to collaborate, brainstorm, and plan the details of the FOREST project.
• Apr 7, 2023 - Postdoc Jacquelyn is moving to a new position as Senior Research Associate at the Mather Institute, where she will study aging and wellbeing. Congratulations Jacquelyn!
Judy is honored as “Mentor of the Year!”
• Mar 3, 2023 - Judy was selected as one of the 2023 Mentor of the Year awardees by the Feinberg School of Medicine Faculty Council!
Liz receives the Daniel I. Linzer Award!
• Jan 30, 2023 - The incredible Liz has received the 2023 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity! Liz is recognized for her co-founding and continued leadership of the Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement, and Action (IDEA) committee within the Medical Social Sciences Department. Learn more here.
• Jan 5, 2023 - Judy writes about the nature of enduring happiness in an essay for Time magazine’s special issue on happiness.
• Jan 3, 2023 - Read the New York Times article “How a Bit of Awe Can Improve Your Health,” featuring contribution from Judy.
Upcoming Presentations
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Past Presentations
• Jul 20-23, 2023 - Liz presented at the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) World Congress - “FOREST: Community-based implementation of positive emotion regulation skills to enhance resilience among gun violence prevention staff in Chicago.”
• Mar 30-April 2, 2023 - Jacquelyn presented a poster at the Society for Affective Science in Long Beach, CA! Her and Judy’s poster was titled: “Affective Reactivity to Daily Stress Predicts Depression and Psychological Wellbeing in Depressed Adults.”
• Mar 2023 - Judy presented “Development of a Positive Emotion Regulation Intervention to Prevent Burnout in Frontline Gun Violence Prevention Workers” at the Innovations in Health Psychology conference in Clyde, New Zealand.
• Feb 28, 2023 - Madison, Peter, Melanie, & Jacquelyn gave talks at the Integrative Medicine and Health Symposium in Chicago! They were part of the “Results from Positive Emotion Interventions: Emotion, Wellbeing, and Mental Health in Underrepresented and Chronically Stressed Groups” Symposium. Jacquelyn also served as a moderator for the “Better Food for Better Health: A Roadmap to Academic-Community Partnerships for Improving Student Health and Nutrition” panel.
• Nov 2022 - Elizabeth took part in an invited symposium - the 2022 American Congress on Rehabilitation Medicine, in Chicago: “Emotional well-being as a mechanism of integrative health: The role of positive emotions in chronic illness”
• Oct 2022 - Judy spoke as part of the DePaul Law Community Conversation on Gun Violence, Public Health, and Mental Health, in Chicago: “FOREST: Fostering Optimal Regulation of Emotion to prevent Secondary Trauma”