This is to announce the creation of the Biostatistics Summer Undergraduate Research and Education (BSURE) Program.  BSURE will be a 10-week summer undergraduate program in the Department of Biostatistics, UNC School of Public Health, to begin Summer 2008 (mid-May to end of July). Dr. Lloyd J. Edwards, Associate Professor in Biostatistics and Head of the Statistical Unit at the Institute on Aging, will serve as Director of the program.    

The BSURE Program will seek outstanding undergraduate students in the mathematical/statistical sciences who are interested in pursuing advanced degrees in biostatistics. BSURE will train students in biostatistical theory, statistical computation, and data management and each student will be assigned to a research project with a faculty mentor. Undergraduate students will enter into the program after completing their sophomore year and will be encouraged to spend two summers in the program.