<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Begin forwarded message:<div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">"LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis)" <<a href="mailto:LISA@vt.edu">LISA@vt.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Recruiting flyer for Ph.D. program in Statistics at Virginia Tech</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">October 20, 2014 at 3:08:25 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><<a href="mailto:adams@calvin.edu">adams@calvin.edu</a>><br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Greetings Joel C. Adams,<br>
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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 (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/sites/default/files/Recruiting-Flyer.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/sites/<wbr>default/files/Recruiting-<wbr>Flyer.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">).<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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 </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.lisa.stat.vt.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">, <a href="http://www.lisa2020.org/" target="_blank">www.LISA2020.org</a>,
and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.stat.vt.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.stat.vt.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">.<br>
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The application deadline to be considered for funding is January 31, 2015.<br>
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Sincerely, Eric Vance</span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b>--<br>LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis)</b>, <a href="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/" target="_blank">www.lisa.stat.vt.edu</a><br>Department of Statistics (MC0439)<br></div><div>Hutcheson Hall, RM 405-C, Virginia Tech<br></div>250 Drillfield Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061<br><div>540-231-8354<br><a href="mailto:trpruitt@vt.edu" target="_blank">LISA@vt.edu</a><br><br><img src="http://www.lisa.stat.vt.edu/sites/all/themes/vt_wide_vertical_content/assets/img/VT_marn_shld_invtR_prevw.jpg"><br></div></div></div>
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