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Climate of Collaboration: PAMS statistician leads two new partnerships to better understand questions related to climate and environment
Armed with two new grants, totaling more than $6 million, Montserrat “Montse” Fuentes is ensuring that NC State continues to be a leader in the quantitative study of climate change and environmental health. The first project is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. It aims to predict how a [more]
Dr. Butch Tsiatis Receives Excellence Education Award
Please join us to congratulate one of our faculty members, Butch Tsiatis, for his excellence in teaching, as recognized by the American Statistical Society. He has been awarded the very prestigious Excellence Education Award from the ASA for his shortcourse on “Semiparametric Theory and Missing Data,” at the JSM 2011 in Miami. The selection of [more]
Marie Davidian Elected President Of American Statistical Association
Dr. Marie Davidian, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University, has been elected president of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Her term of service will begin Jan. 1, 2013. The ASA is a scientific and educational society founded in 1839, with members serving in academia, government and industry in more than [more]
SIBS
The Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS), sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, is a 6-week program to give undergraduate students majoring in the quantitative sciences the opportunity to explore a career in biostatistics.
CUSP
The CSUMS project, NCSU CUSP, prepares students to engage in a significant research experience, and to be fluent in the languages of computing, mathematics, and statistics. The instructors will provide inquiry-guided learning to train undergraduates in exciting new approaches to problems involving massive datasets or computationally intensive methods.
