Fostering Excellence in Biostatistics Workshop
*Registration will open from 10/15/2026-12/15/2026
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA
Sunday, March 14, 2027
9:45 AM — 6:00 PM ET (Workshop)
6:00 PM — 8:00 PM ET (Expo)
Attendance is free. Registration is required by December 15, 2026. Travel funding is available. Lunch will be provided.
The Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society will host the 2027 Fostering Excellence in Biostatistics Workshop (FEBW, formerly FDBW). 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:
- graduate school panels
- roundtable discussions on careers
- breakout sessions on scientific communication for graduate students
- many opportunities for networking and outreach with professional (bio)statisticians in academia, government, and industry.
The Workshop has primarily provided travel support for attending undergraduate students, while also including high school students and current graduate students in (bio)statistics programs. 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.
SPONSORING: If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring the workshop or learning more about it, please email enar@enar.org.
For more information about the Fostering Excellence in Biostatistics workshop, please click here.