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SAS Academic Program University Newsletter - Winter 2005/2006 Edition
The SAS Academic Program would like to take the opportunity to wish all our subscribers a Happy New Year and a great start to 2006! In this issue we feature student experiences and projects from around the world and will highlight our student-specific offerings through our global Academic Program. Enjoy the newsletter, send us your questions, suggestions and feedback, and share the newsletter with your friends, colleagues and fellow students. Your Academic Program Team
Thought leadership: When Knowledge is PowerIn 2005 SAS celebrated "25 years in Europe". Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO, founder and owner of SAS, and Art Cooke, President of SAS International, SAS customers, and employees celebrated SAS' birth in Europe in the UK. Read this interview to learn from SAS thought leaders about the SAS success story and how SAS provides every major industry and company with The Power to Know®. Read More
SPOTLIGHT ON: SAS Student Intern Michael DrutarMeet Michael Drutar. He's new to SAS as an employee, but he's not new to the SAS Education and Medical Practice, where he spent just over eight months as a SAS administrative student, working on the SAS Scholars Digital Library of Analytics. As an undergraduate at North Carolina State University, Drutar majored in mathematics with a statistics minor, spending much of his time running computer simulations and searching through lines of code, data sets, and graphs. Early on, he says, it became apparent that SAS was not only a useful number-crunching tool but also a computing language that seemed to be recurring in several classes. Drutar recalls attending one class where he heard a student ask an instructor, "Why do I need to learn SAS?" The answer was short, to the point, and true: "In the working world, SAS can get you more money." Events like this were more than enough incentive for Drutar to learn about SAS whenever he could!Drutar also put in time working for the NC State Statistics Department. Talking to professors and PhD students during this time greatly enforced the importance of being 'SAS-savvy' as academic careers progress, Drutar says. It was during this stretch of employment that Drutar first got wind of a student opportunity in the SAS Education and Medical Practice. After professors in the Statistics Department encouraged him to apply, he did, and the rest, as they say, is history. Read More
Student Offering: SAS Fellowship ProgramThe SAS Fellowship Program provides access to SAS for cutting edge student research.Are you a student looking to use SAS for your cutting-edge research - your thesis, PhD or a special project? The SAS Fellowship Program might be just what you are looking for! The SAS Fellowship Program has been offered outside the Americas for several years, and undergraduate, master and doctoral students from the United States, Latin America and Canada now are eligible to apply to participate. Launched in the Americas officially in January 2006, the SAS Fellowship Program gives students the opportunity to use the world's leading analytic and business intelligence software for research purposes by granting a free limited software license and access to SAS technical support. At the end of the fellowship, students will submit their papers to SAS, which seeks to grow the body of knowledge in the use of analytics. Students interested in participating should submit an application packet containing an abstract of their research, a project plan, letter(s) of recommendation and an application to the program. Specific details of the program may vary depending on your region. A limited number of students will be accepted to the program at any given time. If you are interested in applying to become a SAS Fellowship student, please contact your local Academic Program Manager, or send us an e-mail.
Student Offering: SAS Student Ambassador CompetitionSAS Student Ambassador Competition Now Extended to Students in the AmericasToday's students are on the cutting edge of research, with the freedom and opportunity to pioneer new ways to use SAS and an intense drive to distinguish themselves from their peers. The Student Ambassador Competition began five years ago at SAS Forum International for students from Europe, Middle East & Africa as well as Asia Pacific. The annual SAS Users Group International (SUGI ) hosted in the Americas is a conference to encourage idea-sharing among users and SAS staff from around the world. It seemed only natural to link students with SUGI, so the SAS Student Ambassador Competition was extended to the Americas! The SAS Student Ambassador Competition, which is designed to recognize and support student researchers who use SAS technologies in innovative ways to benefit their respective industries and fields of study, officially launched in the Americas in August 2005. The competition called for students to submit their research papers, and submissions were received from the United States, Brazil, Chile and Canada. Five winners were chosen, and they will have their expenses paid to present their research at SUGI 31, scheduled for March 26-29 in San Francisco, California. The Student Ambassadors will have the opportunity to meet with business leaders and specialists from every industry and sector as well as SAS experts to discuss real business challenges and solutions. The winners represent the following schools: the University of South Carolina, the University of Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and the University of Louisville, which produced two winners. Since its inception, the student presentations have proven to be extremely popular with SAS customers. Many Student Ambassadors have even received job offers as a result of attending SAS Forum International, partly because SAS skills are in such high demand and also because the students presented their complex research topics in an exceptionally professional manner. For more information on the SAS Student Ambassador Competition, please refer to the SAS Student Ambassador Competition Web site or send us an email. Or, if you plan to attend SUGI or SAS Forum International, stop by the SAS booth for information on each of the Student Ambassadors. And if you happen to spot a SAS Student Ambassador at either conference, be sure to offer your congratulations on winning this prestigious award!
An Interdisciplinary And Age-Group Spanning ProjectSAS cooperates with the Marie-Baum School - a biotechnological high school - in Heidelberg, Germany within an interdisciplinary and age-group spanning project.For several years SAS Germany has been cooperating in the area of biotechnological education, predominantly in the subjects bioinformatics, biotechnology, informatics, and mathematics with the school. The cooperation is designed to build a bridge between companies and schools according to the motto Bridging the gap between Academia and Business, and is meant to facilitate access to future careers for the pupils. In this spirit SAS has set up a portal (the SAS® Information Delivery Portal) around the broad topic "cancer within society" for the education at Marie-Baum-School in Heidelberg. The purpose of the portal, among other aspects, is internal and external access for members of the school as well as the possibility for external people to access a public information area. The portal is mainly designed for class levels 11 (entry class), 12 (level 1), and 13 (level 2). Class level 11 deals with the topic "taking of an inventory", so that class level 12 can deal with the causes. Class level 13 approaches the areas of diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis. The portal was installed by SAS experts and those involved were oriented to the aspects of the portal and will also be supported in the future. Headmaster Helmut Haas resumes his previous and present cooperation with SAS: "From the very first, the SAS® Information Delivery Portal marks an extraordinary possibility for the education of the pupils to incorporate independently and to their own responsibility with a current biological topic." Project Manager Dr. Christian Mellwig has used SAS for several years: "The long lasting cooperation with SAS has proven, that the pupils benefit visibly from a new method of teaching by the use of the SAS® Enterprise Guide in the mathematics classes concerning the formulation of the "Descriptive Statistics". I consider the application of the portal in all class levels of the biotechnological high school as another challenge and I consider the portal itself as ideal surface to explore an interesting topic in different ways."
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Geology Department Wins AwardThe work of Camila Faria de Albuquerque - a Brazilian student pursuing a master's degree in Geology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FURJ) - was chosen as the best project in the technical session presented at the 9th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, held on September 11-14, 2005 in Salvador, Brazil. Some 500 expanded abstracts were submitted to the conference for review. At the Congress, participants and members of the petroleum industry discussed recent developments in the geophysics business environment in Brazil. Several universities also were present to show their recent academic and applied research under development. FURJ is the oldest university in Brazil and one of the oldest engineering schools in the world. Geology students at the university use SAS to manipulate and analyze large amounts of data, something FURJ found other statistical tools did not allow. Read More
North Carolina State University Students Solve Healthcare IssuesOn December 1, 2005, a group of students from North Carolina State University's College of Management visited SAS headquarters to present their semester project, Business Analytics in Healthcare/IT . The project was a collaborative effort among North Carolina State University, the SAS Education and Medical Practice's Management and Professional Program, and the SAS Health and Life Sciences division. Led by Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, associate professor of information systems/technology at NC State, students taking this project-directed IT Capstone Course focused on the current and future uses of information technology in healthcare, especially relating to managed care programs for the AIDS/HIV patient population.Read More
News: Korea University Wins 2005 Mining ChampionshipOn 22nd of December SAS Korea held the 3rd annual 2005 SAS Data Mining Championship. This was a national championship in which 150 university students from all over Korea participated. 58 teams competed in the first round and 4 teams were selected for the final event in Seoul. Sam Cho, Country Manager of SAS Korea, presented the first place gold prize (USD 2000.-) to the Korea University Team.The championship continuously supports the strong skill sets of Korean students in the field of data mining. The event has been featured in several local press, such as Electronic Times, Digital Times, Newswire and Yonhap.
News: SAS And University of Memphis Establish New Training CenterStudents at the University of Memphis will have greater access to SAS training, thanks to a partnership between SAS and the university. This article from the university's student newspaper, the Daily Helmsman, highlights how the University of Memphis is helping students and the business world by offering SAS training on campus.
News: University of Philippines and SAS Jointly Train Students For Commercial OrganizationsAs a joint initiative between the University of Philippines' Department of Statistics and SAS Philippines, an academic boot-camp educated new graduates from both the University of Philippines and De La Salle University. The graduates received a 14 day (over 3 weeks) hands-on SAS training in the areas of programming, statistics and data mining. The event (completed on November 11, 2005) was commercially sponsored by Globe Telecom. Students will be referred to major SAS Philippines customers for permanent job placements.
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