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Nathan T. James dissertation defense – April 11
Mar. 31, 2022—PhD candidate Nathan T. James will be defending his dissertation on Monday, April 11, at noon Central Time. All are invited. To attend the defense, which will take place online, contact our department at biostatistics[at]vumc[dot]org for the link.
Summer Internship for Underrepresented Undergraduates
Mar. 29, 2022—Are you an undergraduate from an underrepresented group who would like to learn more about becoming a biostatistician or data scientist? Our six-week summer program provides qualified students with paid opportunities to learn about both scientific and professional topics from award-winning researchers in our department. Visit the internship page for more details.
Student presenters at ENAR 2022
Mar. 25, 2022—The hybrid ENAR 2022 Spring Meeting begins this Sunday, March 27. It’s one of the major conferences in our field, and we’re delighted to be represented not only by faculty and alumni participants (including professors Jonathan Schildcrout, Bryan Shepherd, Tom Stewart, and Simon Vandekar in invited sessions, graduates Lucy D’Agostino McGowan and Sarah Lotspeich on the Regional Advisory Board,...
Yuqi Tian dissertation defense – March 16
Mar. 10, 2022—PhD candidate Yuqi Tian will be defending her dissertation on Wednesday, March 16, at 9 a.m. Central Time. All are invited. To attend the defense, which will take place online, contact our department at biostatistics[at]vumc[dot]org for the link.
Yi Zuo dissertation defense – January 6
Dec. 22, 2021—PhD candidate Yi Zuo will be defending his dissertation on Thursday, January 6, at 9 a.m. Central Time. All are invited. To attend the defense, which will take place online, contact our department at biostatistics[at]vumc[dot]org for the link. Improved Variable Selection with Second-Generation P-Values Many statistical methods have been proposed for variable selection in the past...
Coleman Harris: Science Policy and more
Nov. 2, 2021—With Election Day upon us, we’re reminded of a report by PhD student Coleman Harris, The 2020 Census Delays, Changes, and Complications for Accuracy and Redistricting, that was published by the Union of Concerned Scientists this past July. Cole recently blogged about the project at the National Science Policy Network, which runs the SciPol Scholars Bootcamp...
Christina Tripp Saunders, Ph.D. Wins JSM Student Travel Award
Aug. 13, 2018—Christina Tripp Saunders, Ph.D. and Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Research Fellow was recently awarded Best student papers by the American Statistical Association Consortium (Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Section) at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August 2018.
Ph.D. Candidate Nick Strayer Blogs with RStudio
Jul. 19, 2018—Ph.D. Candidate Nick Strayer published a blogpost on RStudio titled “Classifying physical activity from smartphone data” Read the blog here: http://blogs.rstudio.com/tensorflow/posts/2018-07-17-activity-detection/
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Graduate Program Hosts Project Safe Workshop
Apr. 17, 2018—The Vanderbilt Biostatistics Program hosted Sarah Jordan Welch, from Vanderbilt’s Project Safe to discuss topics surrounding language of violence, sexual harassment, and coercion. More information on Vanderbilt’s Project Safe can be found here: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/projectsafe/
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!