Interim Chair wins Alumni Award

Posted on 6/7/2013

Dr. Matthew Gurka, Interim Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, has been chosen as the
James E. Grizzle Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of
North Carolina for 2013.

NEW DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS FACULTY

Posted on 6/4/2013

Dr. Leann Long will be joining the WVU Department of Biostatistics on July 8 as an Assistant Professor.

Biostatistics Course Leads to Student Publication

Posted on 5/9/2013

Sandipan Bhattacharjee, a PhD student in the School of Pharmacy, recently published an article in Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews based on the meta-analysis he performed in BIOS 663: Introduction to Meta-Analysis, led by Biostatistics Professor Dr. George Kelley.

Biostatistics faculty member wins ENAR Distinguished Paper Award

Posted on 5/9/2013

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Dustin Long, who was the winner of one of the 2013 Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society's Distinguished Student Paper awards for his dissertation research. 

Biostatistics Student Presents Research at National Meeting

Posted on 5/6/2013

Yohannes Gebremariam, a second-year MPH student in the Department of Biostatistics, recently presented the results of his research at an American Heart Association Scientific Meeting in New Orleans, LA (March 2013).  He is mentored by Biostatistics faculty member Dr. Christa Lilly.

Biostatistics Students Receive Internship Opportunities with Major Corporations

Posted on 5/3/2013

Yohannes Gebremariam has recently accepted a summer internship at the Emmes Corporation, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) in Rockville, MD, and Mark Riffon has recently been selected as a summer intern in the Pharmacokinetics Drug Metabolism Department at Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Researchers in the Department of Biostatistics receive two grants

Posted on 9/5/2012

Researchers in the Department of Biostatistics receive a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and from the American Heart Association.

WVCTSI Gets Funded

Posted on 9/5/2012

The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University has been awarded a $19.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will be used to address the health issues that most commonly affect West Virginians.

New Department of Biostatistics Faculty

Posted on 7/3/2012

A brief introduction to the coming Department of Biostatistics faculty member Sijin Wen.

New Department of Biostatistics Faculty

Posted on 5/25/2012

A brief introduction to the coming Department of Biostatistics faculty member Dustin Long.

New Department of Biostatistics Faculty

Posted on 5/25/2012

A brief introduction to the coming Department of Biostatistics faculty member Dr. Christa Ice.

Avoiding bias in mixed model inference for fixed effects

Posted on 2/28/2011

The results illustrate how accurate inference for fixed effects in a general linear mixed model depends on the covariance model selected for the data.