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SAS honors student researchers at annual user conference2007 SAS Student Ambassadors at cutting edge of critical business technologiesSAS Global Forum, ORLANDO, FLA (Apr. 17, 2007) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, announced the five honorees of the 2007 Student Ambassador Program today at SAS Global Forum, an annual conference attended by more than 3,500 SAS users from around the world. The program recognizes and supports student researchers who use SAS technologies in innovative ways to benefit their respective industries and fields of study. The competition also seeks to raise awareness of the importance of analytical technology expertise in today’s workplace. As SAS Student Ambassadors, honorees will have the opportunity to present their research at the conference. "This competition spotlights the innovative work being done by students in some of the most important fields in business today," said Kathy Lee, General Manager of the SAS Education Practice. "Business intelligence, analytics, data management – these are the technologies that will drive business success in the 21st century, and this event gives the winners a chance to present their progressive research to thousands of SAS customers working in those and related fields." More and more companies are seeking employees who not only can access and analyze data but also can use it to make intelligent decisions. Students who obtain SAS training in colleges and universities come equipped with those skills on the first day of the job. "With such high demand for these skills, SAS Global Forum offers a once-in-a-lifetime networking opportunity for the SAS Student Ambassadors," said Lee. The 2007 SAS Student Ambassadors are Paul Martino, a student who recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in applied statistics from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York; Dimitri Shvorob, a PhD student in economics at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee; Michael Sobczak, a PhD student in sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Pedro Torres, a master‘s student in mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico; and Hamed Zahedi, a PhD student in applied and industrial mathematics at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. With more than 2,000 college, university and business school customers in 109 countries and dedicated education specialists on every continent, SAS has numerous programs available to help universities worldwide incorporate SAS technology into their academic programs and curricula. Recent examples include a Master’s of Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University and a Master’s of Information Quality at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, both of which are accepting applications for the fall 2007 semester. For more information on SAS education solutions, services and programs, visit the SAS Education Practice Web site.
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