Congratulations to the Recipient of the Best Poster Award of the CSDE Winter 2025 Trainees’ Lightning Talks and Poster Session!

Posted: 3/13/2025 ()

Congratulations to all our poster presenters for their very good work! Extra kudos to CSDE Trainee and T32 Fellow David Coomes (Epidemiology) for winning the best poster award during CSDE’s Winter 2025 Lightning Talks & Poster Session. David’s presentation, titled “The Role of Migration in the Rural-Mortality Penalty” concluded that rurality and out-migration are both associated with increased mortality at the county-level. The association is strongest among small urban counties (population 2,500 – 20,000). He will be presenting at PAA this Spring in Washington, D.C.

Many thanks to our other speakers, Elizabeth Nova (Sociology),“Needs Assessment of People Living in Vehicles in King County, WA”; Aryaa Rajouria (Sociology),”Migrating Narratives: A Text Analysis of Global News Coverage”; and Aidan Andronicos (Sociology), “Cancer Death Disparities and Uranium Mine Waste on Indian Reservations”. Thank you to our CSDE Program Coordinator Maddie Farris, CSDE Training Director Jessica Godwin, CSDE Certificate Program Advisor, Jill Fulmore and our student coordinator Desiree Salais for another great CSDE Lightning Talks & Poster Session. Finally, we want to thank everyone who attended and, especially, our wonderful CSDE Faculty Affiliates Panel of poster judges: Kyle Crowder, Audrey Dorelien, Pat Louie, Drew Messamore and Peter Catron.