Boat Day 2026

MARSH Lab Graduate Student members and Dr. Farrell sailed across Brookville Lake on one sunny, perfect day in June. As the pontoon boat chopped through the sparkling water, the MARSH Lab was living it up. The crew enjoyed looking at wildlife as they set anchor in a small alcove about 3 hours away from their docking site for lunch. What the MARSH crew didn’t know was that their pontoon boat would not start again… The Lab crew proceeded to be towed in hilarious fashion all the way back to the dock. After an eventful day, the MARSH Lab crew unloaded the boat with smiles on their faces and warmth in their hearts despite a titanic setback.

MARSH Lab at MPA 2026

MPA 2026 was filled with MARSH Lab members presenting and giving talks. Multiple Undergraduate students presented their posters (Sadie Childs, Lia Crawley, Anna Newman, Hannah Alvarez) and Graduate students gave talks (Erika Rosenberger, Jason Folmsbee, Tiange Dai, Sevi VanDevender). The MARSH Lab is very proud of our members’ achievements.

Dr. Farrell Wins MPA Award in Mentoring

Dr. Allison Farrell won the MPA Early Career Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

Dr. Farrell has dedicated countless hours and so much energy into aiding her students in research, writing, job search, etc. Dr. Farrell wants her mentees to succeed, and she is driven in her goals. Her mentees are not just goals, though; Dr. Farrell treats both graduate and undergraduate students with so much care and respect, gives wonderful feedback and holds them each accountable for their own goals. What a well-deserved award. We are so proud.

Boat Day 2024

The faculty and grad students of MARSH Lab and the Hunger Stigma and Health (HuSH) Lab got together for the first annual boat day on Brookville Lake! We rented a pontoon boat for the afternoon. The weather was rough early in the morning but cooperated well enough to give everyone a nice chance to relax on the water!

Jason Folmsbee receives MRI grant

Graduate student Jason Folmsbee has been awarded a $5,400 grant from the Mental Research Institute’s Healing Family Division program! In collaboration with Dr. Farrell, Dr. Heather Claypool at Miami University, and Dr. Pierce Ekstrom at University of Nebraska Lincoln, he will be conducting a daily diary study examining how political conflict between college students and parents affects parent-child relationship quality and belonging.

Dr. Farrell wins paper award

While attending the International Association for Relationships Research meeting, Dr. Farrell and colleagues received the IARR 2022 paper award for “Associations between language style matching and relationship commitment and satisfaction: An integrative data analysis,” lead by Dr. Sabrina Bierstetel. This award goes to the best paper published in an IARR journal in the previous year as selected by the IARR awards committee. Check out this paper here!