News & Presentations
News
• Apr 20, 2024 - "A Day with Northwestern," hosted by the Northwestern Alumni Association, amplified the incredible work of three faculty members as featured panelists, including our very own Judy Moskowitz, PhD, MPH as well as Andrea Graham, PhD; Darius Tandon, PhD. MSS Dept. Chair, Rinad Beidas, PhD, served as the session's moderator. Their collective expertise and dynamic presentations on harnessing the power of social sciences to live a happy, healthy, and thriving life were well-received!
Rinad Beidas, Judy Moskowitz, Darius Tandon, and Andrea Graham at “A Day with Northwestern” 2024
• Sep 18, 2023 - Check out Judy’s award video from her election as 2023 mentor of the year!
• 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?”
Positive Emotion and Starbucks Coffee!
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”