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Produced by the American Statistical Association, STATtr@k is geared toward individuals who are in a statistics program, recently graduated from a statistics program, or recently entered the job world.
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undergrad Archive
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CUBE Program: A Student’s View of the World of Biostatistics
During the summer of 2022, Kayla Williams participated in the Collaborative Undergraduate Biostatistics Experience program at Virginia Tech. She enjoyed learning about the application of mathematical and statistical concepts to answer real-world questions and realized biostatistics was something she wanted as a career. Here, she tells a little about her experience.
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Nominations Wanted for Waller Awards
The Waller Education Award honors individuals for innovation in the instruction of elementary statistics. The Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award recognizes an individual for sustained excellence in teaching and statistics education.
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AAAS Wants Your E-Poster
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is accepting submissions for its 2022 student e-poster competition.
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Classroom to Collaboration: Tips for a Successful Transition
As a student, you may anticipate differences between practicing statistics in the classroom and the real world, but the reality can be overwhelming, and Brittney Bailey has some tips to ease this transition from student to collaborator.
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National Alliance Offers Opportunities for Undergraduates
The alliance is offering several programs to ensure “every under-represented or underserved American student with the talent and the ambition has the opportunity to earn a doctoral degree in a math science.”
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DC DataFest: George Mason’s ASA Chapter Wins ‘Best Visualization’ Award
The multi-disciplinary team of five students from the ASA’s George Mason University Student Chapter attended the weekend-long Big Data analysis competition April 8–10.
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ASA Receives Grant to Establish Series of REUs
A National Science Foundation grant will enable the ASA to establish a series of undergraduate research experiences on campuses throughout the United States with the goal of invigorating the undergraduate research community in statistics.
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Advice for Those Applying to Graduate School
What does it take to get into graduate school, especially a graduate program in statistics? We asked David Banks and Mark Daniel Ward, both professors in statistics, to give their best advice to those determined to move their academic career forward.