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Biostatistics Forum - April 15, 2009
HESC Room 103,  4-5 pm

Xianzheng Wang from the Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, will present a lecture at the biostatistics forum titled "Information-Reduction Diagnostic Methods for Latent Variable Models."

Epidemiologist Harris Pastides elected 28th president of the University of South Carolina
Harris Pastides, professor of epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and former dean of the Arnold School of Public Health, was elected USC president.
 
Robert McKeown, new EPI/BIOS department chair
Seventeen-year faculty veteran, USC graduate appointed chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
 
Grants, contract income up over last year
Arnold officials say increase is good news at a time when winning funding support has become increasingly competitive.
 
S.C. Cancer Alliance honors James Burch
Assistant professor praised for ability to secure competitive grant funding.
 
more news
Banned in most parts of the world, DDT is still being produced at plants in China and India
Dr. Wilfried Karmaus Wilfried Karmaus and a team of researchers from Michigan State University and Ohio State University have found that DDE, a contaminant or breakdown product of DDT, is still having harmful health consequences.

A study among Michigan women shows the breakdown product, DDE, may contribute to obesity.

Dr. Angela LieseDiabetic youth can lower risk of high blood pressure, particularly those who have Type 1 diabetes
Arnold School researcher, Dr. Angela Liese, says the key is to follow a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products.

Dr. Liese, director of the Center for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities, is co-author of a study publishing these results in the journal Hypertension.

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