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4th ANNUAL LSUS REGIONAL STUDENT SCHOLARS FORUM Date: Friday, March 15, 2019 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Venue: LSUS University Center Keynote Speaker: Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, renowned expert on Medical Geography and Geostatistics. Dr. Goovaerts studies how spatial disease...

BioMedware has received a notice of award that its research in creating software for joinpoint regression analysis of time series health outcomes data will continue with additional funding of $1 million from the National Cancer Institute. Joinpoint regression,...

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez - Sept 16-19th, Attending Health 2.0 12th Annual Fall conference https://fall2018.health2con.com/

Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez will speak on the "Use of Residential Histories in Exposure Reconstruction and Space-Time Cancer Clustering", Special session "Finding Home: Advances in Residential History Data". June 12-14 NAACCR Annual conference, Pittsburgh, presenting June...

Dr. Goovaerts will give a talk titled: “Flint drinking water crisis: a first attempt to model geostatistically the space-time distribution of water lead levels” at School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University in Nanjing, China.

Dr. Goovaerts will present a talk titled: “Geostatistical Prediction of Water Lead levels in Flint, Michigan: a Multivariate Approach” at the 13th International Symposium of Spatial Accuracy in Beijing. Read more about the symposium:...

After a short reminder of basic concepts in geostatistics (i.e., variogram computation and modelling, univariate and multivariate kriging), this course will focus on advanced geospatial techniques to tackle three topics:   change of spatial support (upscaling,...

The METRIC project has been accepted to the NIH-CAP (NIH Commercialization Accelerator Program). This highly competitive program was established and administered by the NIH. The program is described here. It is run by Larta, an organization focused on innovation,...

BioMedware has started new research into taking geographic information into better account when analyzing temporal trends in cancer incidence and mortality rates. The National Cancer Institute has funded a $204,574 grant to BioMedware for this work. BioMedware’s Chief...