Dartmouth Undergraduates Win Poster Competition

Dartmouth undergraduate students Rena Schwartz and Joseph Earles won the first-place award of the student poster competition in the Spring 2022 Northeast Arc Users Conference (NEARC), held at Westfield State University on May 16, 2022.

The title of the winning poster is “Lyme Disease and Land Cover in Massachusetts”, which is based on their research on the association between Lyme Disease and land cover fragmentation in Massachusetts. The work is part of the current NSF EPSCoR project on tickborne disease and is under the advisory of Drs. Meifang Li and Xun Shi from Dartmouth College.