Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research Summer Program

2025 PQAR

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  • In March of 2025, 2024 PQAR students Donjhai Holland, Haley King and Dirk Tolson III attended the 2025 ENAR Spring meeting in New Orleans, LA.
  • In 2024 PQAR student Annika Venegas attended the 2025 Latinx in Math conference in Los Angeles, LA.
  • In January of 2025, 2024 PQAR student Cheyene Henry attend the 2025 Joint Mathematical Meetings in Seattle, WA.
  • In January of 2025, 2023 PQAR student Yael Beshaw and 2024 PQAR student Gabe Hawthorne participated in our 2025 J- Term opportunity. Students returned to the NYC/NYU campus, where they took APSTA-GE 2011 Supervised & Unsupervised Machine Learning. Learn more about PQAR's programming here.
  • In November of 2024, PQAR students Nate Maxey (2023) and Donjhai Holland (2024) presented their groups' summer research project at the 7th annual ADAR Summit in Seattle, WA, hosted by the South Carolina Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (SC-ADAR) team at the University of South Carolina.
  • 2024 PQAR students Cheyene Henry, Donjhai Holland, Annika Venegas were nominated and invited to attend the 2024 Math Alliance: Field of Dreams conference in Atlanta, GA. In November of 2024, Cheyene and Donjhai attended the FOD dreams conference.
  • In October of 2024, 2024 PQAR student Donjhai Holland attend the 2024 SACNAS conference in Phoenix, AZ.
  • In September of 2024, 2024 PQAR students Angie Gonzalez, Cheyene Henry, Carlos Rubin de Celis attended the ASA: StatFest conference in New York, NY. GPH Interim Dean and advisory board member, Dr. Melody Goodman was the keynote speaker for this event.
  • In August of 2024, 2024 PQAR student Madison Simmons attended the Joint Statistical Meetings - Statistics & Data Science in Portland, OR.
  • In July of 2024, 2023 PQAR students Torriana Avery, Yael Beshaw, Alexis DeVilmé, Taliyah Griffin, Stephanie Perez and Jessica Sanchez attended the Fourth Annual PQAR Symposium. They participated in a panel discussion, where they discussed their experiences since the completion of the summer program. Alexis, Nate (pre-recorded) and Yale presented research they have conducted, since the completion of the program.
  • In June of 2024, 2023 PQAR student Yael Beshaw attended the ASA: Symposium on Data Science and Statistics in Richmond, VA.
  • In May of 2024, 2023 PQAR student Maylin Ortiz attend the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Balitmore, MD.
  • In March of 2024, 2023 PQAR students Torriana Avery, Taliyah Griffin and Nate Maxey attended the ENAR Spring meeting in Baltimore, MD.
  • In January of 2024, 2023 PQAR students Maylin Ortiz and Stephanie Perez participated in our 2024 J- Term opportunity. Students returned to the NYC/NYU campus, where they took GPH-GU 2184: Intermediate Statistical Programming in R. Learn more about PQAR's programming here.
  • In November of 2023, 2023 PQAR student Abena Dinizulu attended the APHA: Creating the Healthiest Nation: Overcoming Social and Ethical Challenges annual meeting in Atlanta, GA.
  • In November of 2023, 2023 PQAR student Jessica Sanchez attended the inaugural International Indigenous Dementia Research Network (IIDRN) Annual Conference hosted by the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team in Honolulu, HI.
  • In November of 2023, 2023 PQAR students Yael Beshaw and Michael Terrefortes Rosado presented their groups' summer research project at the 6th annual ADAR Summit in Tampa, FL, hosted by the South Carolina Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (SC-ADAR) team at the University of South Carolina.
  • 2023 PQAR students Taliyah Griffin, Nate Maxey, Michael Terrefortes Rosado were nominated and invited to attend the 2023 Math Alliance: Field of Dreams conference in Atlanta, GA. In November of 2023, Taliyah and Nate attended the FOD dreams conference.
  • In July of 2023, PQAR students Kelsey Bhola (2022), Angie Gonzalez (2022), Vanessa Martinez Lenis (2023) Alma Rincongallardo (2021) and Lourdes S. Romañach Álvarez (2022) attended the Third Annual PQAR Symposium. They participated in a panel discussion, where they discussed their experiences since the completion of the summer program.
  • In January of 2023, 2022 PQAR student Justin Wang attended the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics: Upgrading the Pipeline from Health Data to Health Policy.
  • In January of 2023, 2022 PQAR students Angie Gonzalez, Rachel Mack and Vanessa Martinez-Lenis participated in our 2023 J- Term opportunity. Students returned to the NYC/NYU campus, where they took GPH-GU 2184: Intermediate Statistical Programming in R. Learn more about PQAR's programming here.
  • The research 2021 PQAR students Jordan Harris, Michelle Hefner and Paula Lanternier conducted won first place at the 2022 APHA Occupational Health and Safety section’s best student & new researcher/practitioner competition.
  • The research 2021 PQAR students Jordan Harris, Michelle Hefner and Paula Lanternier conducted was nominated as a top 10 finalist student poster at the 2023 Gerontological Society of America conference (GSA) in the Social Research Policy and Practice section.
  • PQAR students Joshua Bott (2022) and Bintou Koroma (2021) were nominated and invited to attend the 2022 Math Alliance: Field of Dreams conference in Minneapolis, MN. In November of 2022, Joshua attended the FOD dreams conference.
  • In November of 2022, PQAR students Angie Gonzalez (2022) and Romy Robiellos II (2021) presented their groups' summer research project at the 5th annual ADAR Summit in Indianapolis, IN, hosted by the South Carolina Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (SC-ADAR) team at the University of South Carolina.
  • In October of 2022, 2022 PQAR students Joshua Bott, Angie Gonzalez, Valerie Lobato, Rachel Mack, Vanessa Martinez Lenis and Lourdes S. Romañach Álvarez attended the 2022 SACNAS conference in San Juan, PR. Lourdes presented her groups' research in the undergraduate student poster section of the program.
  • 2022 PQAR students Valerie Lobato, Lourdes S. Romañach Álvarez and Clementine Sikpe research project was accepted for the 2022 SACNAS poster session. In the summer of 2022 they worked with Dr. Anarina Murillo and MS student Emma Risner on the topic of "Examining the Association Between the ‘Southern Diet’, Socio-demographic Factors, and Obesity Status Among Women in Alabama".
  • In July of 2022, 2021 PQAR students Amir ElTabekh, Michelle Hefner, Bintou Koroma, Abner Portillo, Romy Robiellos II attended the Second Annual PQAR Symposium. They participated in a panel discussion, where they discussed their experiences since the completion of the summer program. Abner and Michelle presented research they conducted, since the completion of the program.
  • In June of 2022,  the research 2021 PQAR students Jordan Harris, Michelle Hefner and Paula Lanternier conducted with Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff and PhD student Gabriella Meltzer was published in the International Journal of Aging and Human Development. Read here
  • 2021 PQAR student Kristiana Jeffers virtually participated in our 2022 J-Term opportunity. She took GPH-GU 2286: Introduction to Data Management and Statistical Computing. Learn more about PQAR's programming here.
  • In November of 2022, 2021 PQAR student Michelle Hefner virtually presented her groups' summer research project at the 4th annual ADAR Summit, hosted by the Cal-ADAR team at UC Berkeley.
  • The research 2021 PQAR students Jordan Harris, Michelle Hefner and Paula Lanternier conducted was awarded at the 7th Annual NYU Langone Health Disparities Symposium! In the summer of 2021 they worked with Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff and PhD student Gabriella Meltzer on the topic of “Associations Between COVID‐19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Socio‐spatial Factors in NYC Transit Workers 50 Years and Older”.

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The Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research summer program will be held in-person for summer 2025; however, we must remain flexible in our response to developments related to COVID-19. 

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The Pathways into Quantitative Aging Research (PQAR) Summer Program is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) grant R25AG06793101.