This award is presented to the faculty member whom the Graduate Student Association has selected as having done the most to promote excellence in graduate education this past year. Dr. Berenhaut’s commitment to mentorship and scholarship symbolizes the core values of the graduate school’s mission […]
The chair who nominated the recipient of this year’s Teaching Professionals Award for Excellence in Teaching succinctly relayed that this professor “is a superb example of what a teaching professional can be,” from curriculum development and professional development to undergraduate research support and classroom settings. […]
Staci Hepler is an expert in spatial statistics, spatial epidemiology, and computational statistics. Her research develops applied statistical methodology to answer urgent questions in ecology and public health, with a particular emphasis on the opioid crisis in the United States. She blends two rare talents. […]
Rob Erhardt and Staci Hepler’s grant proposal “Scalable Models, Fast Computation and Predictability for Spatio-temporal Ordinal Data” was awarded by the National Science Foundation. The project will develop new statistical methodology for ordinal spatio-temporal data, and deploy it to improve drought prediction in conjunction with […]
Dr. Erhardt’s grant proposal, “Spatial Considerations for Flood Insurance Portfolio Diversification”, will be funded by the Casualty Actuarial Society. This project will quantify how climate change is expected to impact the ability of insurance companies to manage flood risk in North America. The project is […]
A social perspective on perceived distances reveals deep community structure by Kenneth S. Berenhaut, Katherine E. Moore, and Ryan L. Melvin has been published in PNAS January 25, 2022 119 (4) e2003634119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003634119 The WFU News Service has published an article, Where mathematics and a […]
Office of Research & Sponsored Programs – Winning Grants Seminar – Federal Grants: https://pdc.wfu.edu/event/16296/ On Friday, September 17, from 8:30am-1pm, the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs will be offering a grant seminar that helps researchers who are interested in identifying and applying for federal grants. If you have […]
Staci Hepler receives NIH grant Staci Hepler received funding as PI for an NIH R01 grant titled “Spatio-temporal Methods for Surveillance of the Opioid Syndemic”