Looking back at day one of the CSSS 25th anniversary celebration
CSSS celebrated our 25th Anniversary in May with a two-day conference featuring visiting and local friends, alumni, and scholars. We are thankful that so many people could join us for the celebration, including many who have contributed significantly to our Center over the past 25 years.
Thursday's events were designed with current students front and center, with three short courses, an alumni discussion panel, and a welcome reception and poster session to give students the opportunity to share their research and mingle with former CSSS scholars.
The morning kicked off with short courses on causal inference, missing data, and text as data. Over 150 people registered for the short courses taught by UW faculty Katie Wilson, Carlos Cinelli, and Benjamin Mako Hill, respectively.
In the afternoon, CSSS Associate Director Prof. Christopher Adolph hosted an alumni panel featuring Gail Potter (Deputy Section Chief of Clinical Trials Research, National Institutes of Health), Siobhan Mattison (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Carolina Johnson (Senior Data Scientist, King County), Adam Glynn (Professor of Political Science, Emory University), and John Ahlquist (Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego). These five mid-career CSSS alumni looked back on how their experience at CSSS shaped their careers in academia, government, and data science, and shared insights for current students about how to make the most of their time at CSSS.
We finished the day with a reception and poster session in the beautiful Parrington Hall. CSSS alumni, faculty, and current students gathered around posters presenting recent research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences. Around 150 people attended our Thursday events all together. It was a pleasure to see so many people from different fields enjoy the food and drinks, catch up with old friends, and share engaging conversations about their work.
Read about day two of our anniversary event here.
