Highlights from CSDE’s December Lightning Talks!

Posted: 1/4/2023 (CSDE Seminar Series)

Congratulations to CSDE poster presenters for their very good work! Extra kudos to Public Policy graduate student Rebecca Walcott for winning the best poster award during CSDE’s Autumn 2022 Lightning Talks & Poster Session. Walcott’s presentation, titled “Regulating Mobile Money for Financial Inclusion: Mobile Interest Distributions and Savings Behavior in Tanzania”, included analysis of mobile money and banking behavior as well as considerations of mobile money interest dispersal. Many thanks to our other speakers David Coomes (Epidemiology), Many thanks to our other speakers David Coomes (Epidemiology), Larisa Ozeryansky (IIPhD), Elizabeth Nova (Sociology) and Leo Stewart (Information Science), Training Director Jessica Godwin, and student coordinator Aja Sutton (Geography) for another great Session! We also want to thank everyone who attended and, especially, our wonderful CSDE Faculty Affiliates Panel of poster judges: Scott W. Allard, Melissa A. Knox, Peter Catron, Patricia Louie, Nathalie Williams. It was wonderful to see so many familiar and new faces as we work to re-establish in-person events and strengthen our sense of on-campus community. We hope to see you next quarter for the Winter 2023 Lightning Talks and Poster Session!