Congratulations to the latest recipients of the Dr. Carol S. Gleich Development Award! This award is available to faculty members and graduate students in the College of Public Health to support travel expenses to perform an official function at a national or international meeting.

Applications for this award are reviewed twice yearly, on or around October 1 and March 1. Award details, eligibility, and submission guidelines are available here.

March 2025 Recipients

Students

Maria Banas PhD Student, Epidemiology 
Meeting: International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Annual Meeting 
Location: Atlanta, GA 
Meeting Dates: August 17-20, 2025 
Purpose: Presentation, “Prenatal Arsenic Exposure is Associated with Gut Microbiome Composition in Children” 

Shruthi Bannur PhD Student, Community & Behavioral Health 
Meeting: Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting 
Location: New Orleans, LA 
Meeting Dates: March 12-15, 2025 
Purpose: Presentation, “A Qualitative Study to Understand Behaviors and Influences of e-cigarette use among Sexual and Gender minoritized Young Adults” 

Emily Janio PhD Student, Community & Behavioral Health 
Meeting: Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting 
Location: Philadelphia, PA 
Meeting Dates: May 13-16, 2025 
Purpose: Presentation, “Emergency Department Utilization is Similar for Urban and Rural Children” 

Devin Spolsdoff PhD Student, Biostatistics 
Meeting: Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research Annual Conference 
Location: New York, NY 
Meeting Dates: April 7-9, 2025 
Purpose: Presentation, “Teen Dating Violence: A State-Level Longitudinal Comparison of Education Laws and Dating Victimization” 

Morgan Wolff PhD Student, Epidemiology 
Meeting: Society of Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting 
Location: Boston, MA 
Meeting Dates: June 10-13, 2025 
Purpose: Committee, Internal Affairs Chair – Student and Postdoc Committee  

Faculty

Emily Roberts Assistant Professor, Biostatistics 
Meeting: American Causal Inference Conference 
Location: Detroit, MI 
Meeting Dates: May 13-16, 2025 
Purpose: Presentation, “Formation of a University’s Causal Inference Collaboratory” 

Daniel Sewell Associate Professor, Biostatistics 
Meeting: Working Group on Model-Based Clustering Summer Session 
Location: Nice, France 
Meeting Dates: July 21-26, 2025 
Purpose: Presentation, “Model-based Edge Clustering for Weighted Networks with a Noise Component”