Upcoming Career Development Events

The Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) invites our students and postdocs to visit with a recent Harvard astrophysicist PhD currently in the malaria group at the Institute for Disease Modeling … Continue reading “Upcoming Career Development Events”

PhD Student Awards: Tom Chen & Kaitlyn Cook

Congratulations to PhD Student Tom Chen who has been selected as one of the winners of the 2018 JSM Student Paper Competition for his paper “A stochastic second-order generalized estimating … Continue reading “PhD Student Awards: Tom Chen & Kaitlyn Cook”

32nd Annual New England Statistics Symposium

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are excited to co-host the 32nd annual New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) … Continue reading “32nd Annual New England Statistics Symposium”

NIGMS Recognizes Reproducible Science Course

For the benefit of the scientific community, and in response to the NIH’s series of initiatives to enhance rigor and reproducibility in research, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences has … Continue reading “NIGMS Recognizes Reproducible Science Course”

HDSI Research Fund – Call for Projects

Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund Deadline: March 6, 2018 by 5:00PM Award Amount: Up to $100,000 Eligible Applicants: Individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school … Continue reading “HDSI Research Fund – Call for Projects”

Rose Traveling Fellowship Program

The Department of Epidemiology is now accepting applications for the Spring 2018 round of the Rose Traveling Fellowship Program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The Rose Traveling Fellowship Program at the Harvard … Continue reading “Rose Traveling Fellowship Program”

Boehringer Ingelheim Funds New Fellowships

The Department has recently received a $100K grant from Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, to fund two new student fellowships in biostatistics. PhD students receiving these scholarships will be co-mentored … Continue reading “Boehringer Ingelheim Funds New Fellowships”

Lunchtime Career Chat with Peter Mueller – 1/25

A tradition began last spring in the department, linking the Colloquium Series with Career Development, and it will continue this year! Lunchtime Career Chats are specifically designed to be informal, … Continue reading “Lunchtime Career Chat with Peter Mueller – 1/25”