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Sandya Lakkur Takes Home 2nd Place at Vanderbilt’s 3 Minute Thesis
Mar. 26, 2018—Congratulations to 5th year Ph.D. student Sandya Lakkur on placing second at Vanderbilt’s 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on Friday, March 23, 2018. Her 3MT was titled “Managing Disease Outbreaks: Using the Complete Picture.” Full story featured here: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/03/26/ph-d-student-argues-for-early-intervention-in-reading-trouble-takes-3mt-top-prize/
Biostatistics Degrees on the Rise
Nov. 6, 2017—Degrees in Biostatistics and Statistics continue to outgrow the normal degree rates. AMSTATNews has more information and data that can be found here.
Rating a Scientific Paper? There’s an App for That…
Nov. 6, 2017—Vanderbilt University Biostatistics Ph.D. students, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Nick Strayer, played an integral role in helping advance the ‘Papr’ app. The app brands itself as the “Tinder for preprints”. You can read more about the new application with these two articles: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/great-paper-swipe-right-new-tinder-preprints-app http://www.nature.com/news/swipe-right-for-science-papr-app-is-tinder-for-preprints-1.22163
Student Faculty Duo Selected as BOLD Fellow Team
Nov. 6, 2017—Sandya Lakkur (5th year Ph.D. student) and Dr. Robert Johnson have been selected as a 2017-2018 BOLD (Blended & Online Learning Design) fellow team. They will be working on an online module that supplements Dr. Johnson’s course, Advanced Concepts in Probability and Real Analysis for Biostatisticians (BIOS 7361). You can read more about the their...
Biostatistics Students Featured in AMSTATNEWS
Nov. 6, 2017—Interested in learning about what our students are up to when they are not running statistical analyses, or writing their dissertations. AMSTATNews did a quick Q&A with Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Ryan Jarrett, take a closer look here!