The Fostering Excellence in Biostatistics Workshop is a day-long workshop that has been held at the ENAR Spring Meeting since 1999. Its goal is to encourage more quantitatively skilled early-career scholars from broad-ranging backgrounds to pursue degrees in Biostatistics and foster their active participation and contributions to the field. Workshop activities include career and graduate school panels, roundtable discussions, breakout sessions on scientific writing and R coding, and many opportunities for networking and outreach. The Workshop has primarily provided travel support for undergraduate students to attend, while including high school students, current graduate students in (bio)statistics programs, as well as faculty members who primarily mentor high school and undergraduate students. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply for the workshops, e.g. different locations of the country, types of universities (e.g., private, state, community colleges, liberal arts), economic and educational backgrounds, as well as academic fields of study (e.g., biology, mathematics, public health, computer science). The Workshop has become so popular that for the past several years demand has well exceeded available spaces of approximately 100 per offering.
