Amstat News periodically publishes articles on the graduate student experience in their STATtr@k blog.Here are links to two that you may find interesting.
Advice & Professional Development Tips for Students
Making the Transition from Coursework to Research
The link to the blog itself is here.
There are several student paper competitions for JSM 2011; these represent a good opportunity to have some or even all of your travel expenses paid to the conference, to present your work there, and to gain valuable feedback from colleagues. Students and faculty are encouraged to see if one or more of these may be appropriate for a current paper. Deadlines vary, so read directions carefully.
Click on links below to find more information:
Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences Student Paper Competition
Section on Risk Analysis Student/Young Researcher Competition
The PhD qualifying exam will take place on the following dates:
Theory & Methods of Biostatistics: Friday January 14, 9.00 am to 12.30pm
Applications of Biostatistical Methods: Monday January 17 through Friday January 21.
Please notify Susan Furtado by December 22 if you plan to sit for the exam.
Hakmook Kang’s van Ryzin Award for the ENAR meetings is featured on Brown’s daily news digest. You can read about it here. The van Ryzin Award is given to the best student paper submitted to the annual ENAR meetings (described in a previous post). Congratulations again to Hakmook and to his faculty advisors Hernando Ombao, Crystal Linkletter, and David Badre.
PhD students Hakmook Kang, Devin Koestler, and Ann Mwangi have each been recognized with Distinguished Student Paper Awards for the ENAR Annual Meetings. Students from throughout North America are eligible for these awards, which provide funds to cover travel and registration to the March 2011 meeting being held in Miami. Each student will give an oral presentation of their work, and will receive recognition at the President’s address.
We are especially proud of Hakmook Kang, whose paper won the van Ryzin Award for best overall student paper among all submissions.
The winning papers:
Spatio-spectral mixed effects model for fMRI, by Hakmook Kang
Methods for forecasting census in hospital units, by Devin Koestler
Causal Inference for Survival Times with Informative Censoring & Missing
Exposure, with Application to Treatment of TB/HIV Coinfection in Western
Kenya, by Ann Mwangi
More information about ENAR and the 2011 Spring Meetings can be found here.
Welcome to the Biostatistics Graduate Program. We will be using this blog to update current and prospective students and faculty on program news, events and activities. We opened the blog on December 3; please check back next week for important program news.
Joe Hogan
Director of Graduate Studies