Around The School, September 12, 2008

SAVE TWO DATES

REGISTER AND SUBMIT ABSTRACTS for the GENI Mini Symposium + Poster Session

October 3, 2008,
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
at Harvard Medical School

“State of the School Address”
Wednesday, October 8
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Kresge Cafeteria

Members of the HSPH Community are invited to join Deans Barry R. Bloom and James H. Ware to discuss recent accomplishments at the School, as well as priorities, challenges, and special initiatives in the current academic year.

You are invited to bring your lunch.  Light refreshments will be provided.  There will be ample time for questions and discussion.

Landmark Community
A special shuttle bus will depart at 11:30 a.m. from the Regal Theater on Brookline Ave. to the Kresge Building at 677 Huntington Ave. and return to the Landmark Building at 1:15 p.m. Regular Landmark Shuttle service will also take place.

Faculty Promotions and Appointments 

Russ Hauser has been promoted to Professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology

Frank Hu has been promoted to Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology
   
Michelle Mello has been promoted to Professor of Law and Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management
 
Eric Rubin has been promoted to Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Chensheng (Alex) Lu has been appointed Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology, Department of Environmental Health

Pierre Bushel has been appointed Yerby Visiting Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Biostatistics

Gunther Fink has been appointed assistant professor of international health economics, Department of Global Health and Population

Maria Glymour has been appointed assistant professor of society, human development, and health, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health

Cheng Li has been appointed associate professor of biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics

Michael Moore has been appointed visiting professor in the Department of Global Health and Population

Alkes Price has been appointed assistant professor of statistical genetics, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen has been appointed assistant professor of epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology

  

Postage Stamps Available at Credit Union at HSPH

Books and rolls of U.S. postage stamps are now available for sale at the Harvard University Credit Union near the entrance to Sebastian's Café in the Kresge Building. There are no extra fees for buying stamps there, and you do not need to be a member to buy them.  The stamp machine that once stood near the vending machines in the Kresge Building was removed permanently due to renovations.

 

Xihong Lin Wins Award

HSPH Professor of Biostatistics Xihong Lin is the recipient of the Seventh Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. She will accept the award at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Her research areas include statistical learning methods for high-dimensional data, dimension reduction, variable selection, nonparametric and semiparametric regression models, measurement error, mixed (frailty) models, estimating equations, and missing data. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a recipient of the COPSS President's Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.