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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From:
</b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis)" <<a href="mailto:LISA@vt.edu">LISA@vt.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date:
</b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 27, 2013 9:32:59 AM EDT<br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To:
</b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:adams@calvin.edu">adams@calvin.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject:
</b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Recruiting flyer for Ph.D. program in Statistics at Virginia Tech</b><br>
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<p><font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">Greetings Joel C. Adams,</font> <br>
<font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">The Virginia Tech Department of Statistics and LISA want to provide funding for mathematics, statistics, and computer science majors from Calvin College to use statistics to help people, solve real world problems, and travel
around the world. Please share the attached flyer for our PhD program with any interested students or with others who might know some interested students. The flyer is also available online here (<a href="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/sites/default/files/Recruiting-Flyer.pdf">www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/sites/default/files/Recruiting-Flyer.pdf</a>).</font></p>
<p><font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">Established in 1949, the Virginia Tech Department of Statistics is the 3rd oldest in the United States with many research opportunities in Bayesian Modeling, Computational Statistics, Data Analytics, Design of Experiments,
Biostatistics, Quality Control, and other areas. Ph.D. students can be supported with funding for research, teaching, and for working as a statistical collaborator in LISA, Virginia Tech’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis.</font></p>
<p><font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">Established in 1948 and reorganized in 2008, LISA’s mission is to train statisticians to become interdisciplinary collaborators and promote the value of statistical thinking in all phases of scientific research. We provide
statistical advice, analysis, and education to Virginia Tech researchers by offering individual collaboration meetings, walk-in consulting, educational short courses, and support for interdisciplinary research projects. LISA’s statistical collaborators are
trained to help researchers design experiments; collect, analyze, and plot data; run statistical software; interpret results; and communicate statistical concepts to non-statisticians. LISA collaborators apply their statistical expertise to problems in diverse
fields such as rural development, nanoscience, engineering, bioinformatics, horticulture, psychology, wildlife science, education, finance, and many others. In 2012, statistical collaborators from LISA collaborated with researchers on 412 projects, provided
statistical advice for 396 visitors to LISA Walk-in Consulting, and taught 506 short course attendees how to apply statistics in their research.</font></p>
<p><font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">LISA is now recruiting motivated students to become part of LISA 2020, our program to train statisticians to communicate and collaborate with researchers all over the world and create a network of 20 statistical collaboration
laboratories in developing countries by 2020. </font></p>
<p><font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">Learn more about LISA 2020, how LISA collaborators are working on research projects around the world, and how to apply to the PhD program in the Department of Statistics at
<a href="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu">www.lisa.stat.vt.edu</a> <a href="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/LISA2020">
www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/LISA2020</a>, and <a href="http://www.stat.vt.edu">www.stat.vt.edu</a>.</font></p>
<p><font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">The application deadline to be considered for funding is January 31, 2014.</font>
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<font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">Sincerely, Eric Vance </font><br>
<font color="#1F497D" face="Arial">--<br>
Eric Vance, PhD<br>
Director of LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis), <a href="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu">
www.lisa.stat.vt.edu</a><br>
Assistant Research Professor, Virginia Tech Department of Statistics<br>
212 Hutcheson Hall (0439), Blacksburg, VA 24061, 540-231-4597, <a href="http://www.stat.vt.edu/facstaff/ervance/">
www.stat.vt.edu/facstaff/ervance/</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ervance@vt.edu">ervance@vt.edu</a><br>
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