2011 Fellows
For 15 years, the Center has awarded Matina S. Horner, Ph.D. Summer Research Fellowships, giving undergraduate and graduate students the time, resources, and mentorship required to carry out meaningful research in the field.
Student research projects have focused on a range of topics from prevention, to cross-cultural perspectives, to personality variables and biological factors. Many fellows stay in touch with us as they continue their independent research projects after their fellowships have ended, often resulting in theses and publishable papers. Here is how our 2011 fellows are spending their summer at the Harris Center.
Doris Berman
Bernice Raveche
Esmeralda Romero-Lorenz
Rebecca Shingleton
 Doris Berman
Doris is a rising sophomore at Wellesley College with plans to go to medical school after graduation. For her Matina Horner Fellowship project, she is working on a literature review for the Harris Center's upcoming paper on mortality in anorexia and bulimia. Doris will also be working this summer in the Neuroendocrine Unit at MGH on a study of physiologic testosterone in anorexia nervosa (low-dose testosterone to bring hormone to normal levels).
Bernice Raveche
Bernice is a third year doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health. During her fellowship at the Harris Center, she is exploring the association between weight-based discrimination and disordered eating outcomes among ethnically diverse youth. This project is part of her dissertation, which considers weight-based discrimination as a shared risk factor for both obesity and eating disorders. Read more.
Esmeralda Romero-Lorenzo
Esmeralda is a rising sophomore at MIT majoring in bioengineering. As a Matina Horner fellow, she intends to learn about and summarize psychosocial development in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating disorders not otherwise specified. She hopes that her review will help expand our knowledge of eating disorders and their impact on patients’ lives. Esmeralda will also be working in the Neuroendocrine Unit this summer on a study of appetite regulating and stress hormones in the genetics of anorexia nervosa.
Rebecca Shingleton
Rebecca is a first year graduate student in clinical psychology at Boston University. For her fellowship project, she is working on a data-set that involves investigating real-time data (collected using ecological momentary assessment) in patients with self-injurious behavior, including binge/purge thoughts and behaviors. She hopes this research will help broaden our understanding of eating disordered behavior in the natural setting.
Click to read feedback from some of our former Matina Horner fellows about their summers at the Harris Center.
This page was last updated on July 21, 2011.
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