Fwd: Recruiting flyer for Ph.D. program in Statistics at Virginia Tech

[Joel Adams]

Begin forwarded message:
> From: "LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis)" <LISA at vt.edu>
> Subject: Recruiting flyer for Ph.D. program in Statistics at Virginia Tech
> Date: October 20, 2014 at 3:08:25 PM EDT
> To: <adams at calvin.edu>
> 
> Greetings Joel C. Adams,
> 
> The Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech and LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis) are recruiting students with excellent quantitative skills who want to earn a Ph.D. in Statistics to help people, solve real world problems, and travel around the world. We selected Calvin College to send the attached recruiting flyer because of the strength of your students in the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems and their potential fit for our program. Please share the flyer with any interested students or with others who might know some interested students. The flyer is also available online here (www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/sites/default/files/Recruiting-Flyer.pdf).
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 agriculture, nanoscience, education, engineering, bioinformatics, psychology, wildlife science, finance, and many others. In 2013-14, statistical collaborators from LISA collaborated with researchers on 349 projects from 66 departments, provided statistical advice for 469 visitors to LISA Walk-in Consulting, and taught 506 short course attendees how to apply statistics in their research.
> 
> 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.
> 
> To 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, please visit www.lisa.stat.vt.edu, www.LISA2020.org, and www.stat.vt.edu.
> 
> The application deadline to be considered for funding is January 31, 2015.
> 
> Sincerely, Eric Vance
> --
> LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis), www.lisa.stat.vt.edu
> Department of Statistics (MC0439)
> Hutcheson Hall, RM 405-C, Virginia Tech
> 250 Drillfield Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061
> 540-231-8354
> LISA at vt.edu
> 
> 

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Joel C. Adams, PhD
Chair, Dept of Computer Science
Calvin College
http://www.calvin.edu/~adams
adams at calvin.edu

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