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Professor Berman was interviewed by The Guardian recently
The Guardian recently interviewed Professor Berman on the critiques of Melania Trump’s White House holiday decorations, the red Christmas trees. He indicated that although the “low-level fractal structure in…
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Professor Berman and Ph.D. student Kate Schertz win first place and grand prize in UChicago’s App Challenge with their app, ReTUNE, which will create more restorative pedestrian experiences
May 30, 2018 In the summer of 2017, Professor Marc Berman and then-incoming Ph.D. student Kate Schertz were among the 4 of 66 UChicago App Challenge submission groups…
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Podcast: How trees make people happier and healthier
March 12, 2018 Andrew Bauld of the University of Chicago podcast, Knowledge Applied, interviewed Professor Berman, who gave an overview of the Environmental Neuroscience Lab’s research on the…
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Professors Talen and Berman connect urban planning and environmental neuropsychology while discussing current issues of city life
March 1, 2018 Professor Berman recently spoke with Emily Talen, who is a former urban planner, current Professor of Urbanism, and current Director of the Urbanism Lab at…
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Association for Psychological Science’s Janet Taylor Spence Award given to Professor Berman for transformative early career contributions
January 10, 2018 For his “transformative early career contributions to psychological science,” Professor Berman has received the Association for Psychological Science’s Janet Taylor Spence Award. The award is…
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Professor Berman awarded Neubauer Faculty Development Fellowship for excellence in teaching and mentorship
December 1, 2017 Professor Berman has been awarded the 2017-2018 J. and J. Neubauer Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Chicago. This fellowship is given to Assistant…
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Ph.D. student Kathryn Schertz presents talk at Center for Practical Wisdom Research Forum about environmental influences on thought content
December 5th, 2017 One of our lab’s Ph.D. students, Kathryn Schertz, presented a talk based on her recent study, “A thought in the park: The influence of naturalness…
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Nature videos help to calm inmates in solitary confinement
September 1, 2017 Gabriel Popkin of Nature News describes a new study where prisoners in solitary confinement were split into two groups, one of which allowed these prisoners…
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Psychology Department’s Marc Berman and Kate Schertz win first stage of the UChicago App Challenge for ReTUNE, an app which will improve daily pedestrian experience
August 9, 2017 Professor Berman and former lab manager/incoming doctoral student Kathryn Schertz are among the summer 2017 winners of the UChicago App Challenge, which will allow them…
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Finally, My Case of ‘Chemo Brain’ Is Vindicated
July 12, 2017 Deanna Pai writes in New York Magazine about her experiences with ‘chemo brain,’ which is a set of cognitive deficits resulting from chemotherapy. She references a…
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