Marriage and Success: A Complicated Picture for Women
During the Spring 2014 semester, I took a class called “The History of American Families.” One of the biggest trends discussed was the shift in perceptions and expectations of marriage. As a freshman in college with a serious boyfriend and plans to get married before...
Transmitting Trauma – Genetics
Psychology and history look at events affecting large numbers of people – psychology to understand behavior, and history to document it for posterity. A fairly recent convergence of the two fields comes in the forms of a study about how trauma can be inherited by the...
There is an “I” in Marriage
At the end of my freshman year at CMC, my boyfriend came home from a 13-month deployment and proposed. It wasn’t a surprise, and almost all of my friends expected me to start my sophomore year of college with a fiancé. Yet even with this knowledge, many approached me...
School + Marriage + Kids = It’s Possible!
Imagine working in a lab, volunteering at multiple clinics, and studying for the MCATS, all while balancing a full course load. Now imagine doing it with a spouse and two kids. Marine Corps Veteran Brian Dix ’17 (the oldest student at CMC!) and his wife...
Returning to Kaiser for the summer
As an intern last summer at Kaiser Permanente, Sharon Chiang ’17 had the opportunity to explore a field she wasn’t familiar with. This summer, she returned with a goal: to gain more skillsets in healthcare innovation and technology. So far, she’s...
Women & Finances
CFP and Berger Board Member Mari Adam has wise words of advice for all her clients at Adam Financial Associates. But her advice to women in particular? You need to know how to handle money. A recent article in Financial Advisor magazine states that “80% of men...
Heather Antecol in the New York Times
Professor Heather Antecol, former Director of the Berger Institute, was featured last week in The New York Times. A study she co-authored with two other professors shows that gender-neutral tenure extension policies put women at a disadvantage: The policies led to a...
A Kaiser summer internship
When you read this, Grace Bailey ’18 will have set off for Oakland, California, where she’ll be interning for the summer at Kaiser Permanente. Here’s what she’s found out about the company so far: “Kaiser makes an effort to solve problems...
Berger Students Attend WPA!
In early May, seven Berger Institute research assistants attended the Western Psychological Association’s annual conference to present posters of their latest research findings. This year’s conference took place in Long Beach, and it was an excellent...
To achieve work-life balance, I…
Recently, Larissa Chern ’17 stood outside The Hub and asked CMC students: what do you do to achieve work-life balance? Here are their answers… [wpvideo HFIdGIVl]