Thinking about grad school? We came across a surprisingly apt description of doing research in grad school using vacuum cleaners. Check it out.
Or if you’d like something in pictures, we suggest Matt Might’s great pictorial guide to perspective on what it means to do a Ph.D. Here’s a teaser:
Amazingly, people somehow usually think grad school is just a souped up version of undergrad. Not so! Check out this handy, dandy chart of Undergrad versus Grad by Bug Girl.
Although last Wednesday’s Math Club was the last of the “official 5pm on Wednesdays” Math Club of the semester, there is a great event this
Friday, April 29th at 11:45 am in PHSC 424 (the Math Dept. lounge).
Dr. Lin
Dr. Zongzhu Lin is a math professor at Kansas State University. For the last two years he has also been a Program Officer in the Math division of the National Science Foundation. He’ll be giving a brief presentation plus a question/answer session on graduate funding opportunities with the NSF. How does an all-expenses-paid fellowship from the NSF sound?
His focus will be on information for undergrads and grads thinking math grad school. But the NSF supports all the sciences, so even if you’re thinking about grad school in physics, chemistry, computer science, biology, etc., you should also stop by.
As always, Free Pizza!
Friend of the blog, Dr. Goodey, forwarded this announcement which may be interesting if you like both math and biology:
Georgetown University: Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics
Are you interested in genetics, bioterrorism, international health, bioinformatics, epidemiology or health policy?
Our M.S. program provides integrated training in computational, quantitative, and biomedical sciences to support health-related research performed in academia, government, and industry. Students will not only acquire the quantitative and computational tools that underpin epidemiology and bioinformatics, but also gain substantive exposure to applications of these tools to biological and health sciences. Our program brings together faculty from our Department and from Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) Basic Science and Clinical Departments, many of whom are members of Georgetownʼs Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC). Graduates with an MS degree in Biostatistics go on to successful and lucrative positions in academic centers, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies and private consulting firms.
Applications for our Masters of Science Program in Biostatistics are currently open for Fall 2011. Application deadline is June 1st, 2011.
For more information, visit: http://dbbb.georgetown.edu/ or e-mail Caroline at ctw26@georgetown.edu
Apply now for Fall 2011 at: http://grad.georgetown.edu/pages/apply_online.cfm
Caroline Wu
Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics
Georgetown University
4000 Reservoir Road, NW
Building D, Suite 180
Washington, DC 20057-1484
Phone: 202-687-4114
Fax: 202-687-2581
If you are interested in statistics and/or biology, then you might be interested in this opportunity at North Carolina State University:
I am writing to let you know about two opportunities for undergraduate students who are interested in statistics.
1. Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS). SIBS is a 6-week program to give undergraduate students majoring in or with background in the quantitative sciences the opportunity to explore a career in biostatistics or statistics. Summer 2011 will be NC State’s 8th year of SIBS! Applications are accepted beginning December 1, 2010: http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/sibs/
2. Graduate School. Deadlines are approaching for graduate school applications. Do you have students who are interested in graduate study in Statistics? Only about one-third of our successful applicants have a degree in Statistics. However, many have degrees in mathematics, engineering or other areas. We are looking for students with a strong mathematics background, regardless of the actual major. Visit http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/ and click on the For Prospective Students tab at the top. Students can also contact me directly with questions. I’m happy to talk to seniors in the process of applying or younger students who are thinking ahead.
Thanks for forwarding to your students and colleagues!
PamPam Arroway, Teaching Associate Professor
Assistant Department Head&
Co-Director of Graduate Programs
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
We should also put in a plug for our very own 5-year BS Math/MS Biostatistics program. This is joint with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the OU Health Sciences Center.
This is a great way to merge your interest in math and biology and have a degree in one of the hottest fields of the 21st century! The pay range for someone with a MS in biostatistics is $60-80,000. Not too shabby!
For more details about the OU program, check out the program requirements here.
No word on if biostatistics improves your Bioshock skills.
What to do?
Due to popular demand and tradition, we’re having a grad school panel this
Wednesday, November 3rd at 5 pm in PHSC 1105.
It’s always fun to tease the grad students, but for the right sort of people, going to grad school is a great experience. It’s fun, your fellow students are cool, and, heck, it’s better than getting a real job and wearing dress clothes every day 
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Maybe you’re already thinking about going to grad school, or maybe you are just starting to think about what you want to do after graduation. Either way, no doubt you have lots of questions:
We’ll have grad students and faculty from math, math education, economics, meteorology, and more! They’ll be able to answer all your questions. Or maybe you just want to hang out with people who appreciate this comic:
As always, Free Pizza!
Update: There will be grad students from mathematics, meteorology, and the business school. And even if you’re thinking about a different area, you can bet they’ll still have lots of good advice!
Have you thought about going to grad school in math or another field?
You probably have lots of questions about applying, getting accepted, how much it costs, how much you can get paid (many grad students get everything paid for plus have enough to live on!), what grad classes are like, what doing research is like, what kind of jobs you can get with a graduate degree, etc., etc.
The Math Club will be hosting a panel of grad students next Wednesday, November 19th in PHSC 1105 at 5pm. The panel will be grad students from the OU math department and from other OU departments and they’ll be there to hang out and talk with people about grad school. If you have questions, then can give you the real answer!
As always, everyone is welcome and there’ll be free pizza
P.S. Once the schedule is finalized, we’ll post which other departments will be coming.
P.P.S. The comics posted above and below are from Piled Higher & Deeper, a great comic about grad students.
P.P.P.S. The flyer for this week’s Math Club is now available for download.
