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Winning student researchers present at SAS® Global Forum 2008 »
 Piotr Sulikowski, a PhD candidate from Poland, was one of 16 SAS Student Ambassadors who traveled from far and wide to present at SAS Global Forum. Find out what the students had to say about their experience – and see which student won best paper in her track!

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SAS Malaysia Lecturer Excellence Awards »
The Lecturer Excellence Awards recognize university educators for their contributions in teaching and supporting SAS. Three award winners will be named at the SAS Forum in Kuala Lumpur in July.
French engineering student – “IT is the base for everything nowadays” »
Ariane Sioufi, SAS France Academic Director, interviews Felix Sportelli, a 23-year-old SAS trainee completing his fourth year at EFREI, a five-year engineering school that specializes in information technology and management.
Australian students gain on-the-job experience with SAS customers »
The SAS Work Placement Program, now in its fifth year, provides Australian students with links to practical experience and future employment.
  Research

SAS 9.2 enhancements of interest to academics »
SAS/STAT® 9.2 provides many new statistical techniques of interest to academics. Bayesian methods come to the GENMOD, LIFEREG, and PHREG procedures and flexible Bayesian modeling to experimental MCMC procedure. ODS Statistical Graphics enhance at least 36 SAS/STAT procedures.

The QUANTREG, GLMSELECT, and GLIMMIX procedures now allow statistical modeling capabilities on all platforms, and the survey data analysis procedures now provide variance estimation by balanced repeated replication (BRR) and jackknife methods. SAS Stat Studio (distributed with SAS/IML®) offers data exploration and analysis in a highly flexible programming environment in which you can run SAS/STAT or SAS/IML analyses and display the results with dynamically linked graphics and data tables. Visit What's New to learn about more than 200 new features in this release of SAS/STAT software.
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Point, Click, Teach »
Did you know that SAS offers an easy-to-use point-and-click interface called SAS Enterprise Guide? And that it is already included in the software bundle licensed by most of our academic customers? For more information, visit www.sas.com/click.

Let SAS Publishing help you in the classroom »
SAS is committed to serving the needs of the academic community. For example, you can use SAS books in your classroom, request evaluation copies for review, and become an academic author.

The world of work is changing »
The Student Times, which bills itself as “the National Student Newspaper,” is a publication from the United Kingdom with a circulation of 200,000. Their most recent edition included a supplement on future skills, with profiles of researchers, students and professionals working in analytics and business intelligence.

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2008 Competing on Analytics
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Experience the power of analytics in these hands-on workshops.
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June 2-3
Cary, NC

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