Accomplishments, Awards, A Year’s Worth of Plenty! And, Happy Summer, too!
Posted: 6/8/2023 (CSDE Research)
Last Friday, CSDE hosted its annual end of the year event to celebrate the accomplishments of the wonderful graduate students who comprise a vital aspect of our community. CSDE’s graduate students enroll in the Certificate in Demographic Methods (~50 graduate students), receive travel funding for professional conferences, work as RAs on affiliates’ research projects, and can receive CSDE fellowship support from NICHD or CSDE’s Shanahan Endowment, enabling them to join the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. They are the future of demography and doing great things! Big thank you to Jessica Godwin, Jill Fulmore and Mike Renz for organizing and hosting the event so well! What follows is a quick review, but for more details, please review the end of the year slide show here.
Three Trainees successfully defended their dissertations, including Aja Sutton (Geography – “Modeling the social and political contexts of United States health protective interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic”), Colin Baynes (Global Health – “Bridging Implementation Science and Demography to Understand the Dynamics of Child Survival in Tanzania between 2000-2015”), and Neal Marquez (Sociology – “The Impact of Environmental, Social, and Institutional Factors on Geographic Mobility in the United States”). Each have exciting postdoctoral opportunities. Aja will be a postdoc at Stanford University in the Human Evolutionary Ecology and Health in the Doerr School of Sustainability. Colin will be at the University of North Carolina at the Carolina Population Center. Neal is at Portland State University at their Population Research Center.
CSDE Trainees awarded Master’s Degrees included Elizabeth Nova (Sociology), Aryaa Rajouria (Sociology), and Bridget Waters (Epidemiology). There are five continuing fellows in CSDE’s Fellows Program, including: Delaney Glass (Anthropology), David Coomes (Epidemiology), Breon Haskett (Sociology), Lizzy Pelletier (Public Policy), and June Yang (Sociology). Additionally, CSDE sponsored two Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Fellows – Courtney Allen (UW Sociology) and Esther Denecke (University of Rostock). Winners of CSDE’s Lightning Talks and Poster Presentations were Rebecca Walcott (Public Policy) and Lizzy Pelletier (Public Policy).
CSDE Trainees are actively engaged in their academic professional communities and especially at the Population Association of America. This year 18 trainees participated in PAA with oral presentations, flash talks, or posters including: Courtney Allen, Esther Denecke, Callie Freitag, Neal Marquez, Elizabeth Nova, Zoe Pleasure, Taylor Riley, Lauren Woczynski, Nick Irons, Ihsan Kaveci, Tom Lindman, Aasli Abdi Nur, Larisa Ozeryansky, Aryaa Rajouria, Aja Aja Sutton, Ellyn Terry, Maria Vignau Loria, June Yang, and Crystal Yu. June Yang (and colleagues Zack Almquist and James Holland Jones) won a PAA Best Poster Award for their work: Political and Educational Dynamics in Religious Group’s Mask Resistance Under COVID-19.
CSDE Trainees are also successful grant recipients! Larisa Ozeryanski (Interdisciplinary Individual PhD) received a Fulbright Fellowship to study the health experiences of refugees from Ukraine at the Global Health Department, University of Oslo. Delaney Glass (Anthropology) received a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant for “Rethinking Evolutionary and Proximate Drivers of Pubertal Timing Among Jordanian Non-Refugee and Syrian Refugee Adolescents.”
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! Best wishes for a happy and productive summer – from all of us at CSDE!