Kaetlin Marsh, Atlanta, Georgia, built a robust research portfolio focused on public health, particularly in nutrition and eating disorders among low-income populations, as an undergraduate psychology student and McNair Scholar in the UNT Honors College. Now, with funding from a prestigious $8,500 fellowship from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, she is continuing her research at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, focusing on examining barriers to eating disorder diagnoses — such as body shape and weight — as well as the development of effective public nutrition programming. “My background in psychology gave me a good understanding of the individual factors influencing the development of an eating disorder,” says Marsh, who discovered her love of research during her freshman year when she began volunteering in the lab of professor David Cicero, director of UNT’s clinical psychology program and the Center for Psychosocial Health Disparities Research. Marsh credits her minors in food studies and history with helping her develop a more interdisciplinary understanding of modern body ideals and their relationship to disordered eating. “I am particularly interested in the intersections between body size, socioeconomic status, food insecurity and access to green space and fitness settings.”