Greetings from the south side of Upham Hall.
For the readers of our newsletter, you may note the change of location -- we moved to allow for a summer of construction in our usual home on the 3rd Floor of Upham. While moving everyone out of the third floor in the department for the summer was somewhat painful, we are very excited about the new classroom space we will enjoying starting this August (story and picture below).
Thank you for your generous support of the department. Your gifts supported:
- providing computing platforms such as the RStudio and SAS AppPortal servers for use in classes
- work that we are doing in support of the local county coroner
- setting up the virtual desktop for our new classrooms
You contributions sponsor career services events to help students prepare for career fair, to host visitors to campus and to recruit high school students to study statistics and other quantitative fields.
In this newsletter, I would like to introduce a new opportunity for you to contribute: the STA-Alumni Advisory Mentoring Panel (STA-AAMP). As a member of STA-AAMP, we ask you to return to campus at least once a year and use this opportunity to host 4-5 of our current students for lunch or dinner. We want to let our students share in the wisdom, experience and mentoring of our alumni. In addition, we would love to have you meet with the department chair and a few faculty to share your perspective about the program or to present a seminar if your are interested.
To sign up, please complete this Google form. Your gifts of time visiting campus and the department help our students see how their careers might evolve after completing their studies at Miami. Again, thank you for your support, and best wishes for the summer holidays!
