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STOR-i DTC welcomes summer interns
STOR-i's undergraduate interns will spend eight weeks at Lancaster working on research projects
On Monday 18th July, STOR-i welcomed the second intake of interns with a Welcome Day including an introduction to life as a STOR-i intern and a variety of ice breaker and team building activities.
As part of its mission STOR-i offers an opportunity for UK undergraduates to undertake 8-week research internships. The internships have been developed to give motivated students an opportunity to gain an experience of research alongside like-minded peers. The internships also allow students to develop their team working and problem solving skills through a variety of activities including collaborative group work and a problem solving day.
This year interns have joined STOR-i from Universities across the UK including Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lancaster, St Andrews and Warwick, as well as Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Imperial College London.
They will be completing research projects with the support and supervision of academic staff and research students from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Management Science Department.
Mon 25 July 2011
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- STOR-i - Lancaster University's Statistics and Operational Research Doctoral Training Centre (STOR DTC) aims to develop a new generation of researcher capable of creating an impact in these complementary areas. The STOR DTC is funded by a £4.3M award from the EPSRC and benefits from considerable support from leading industry and other organisations
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Engineering students Scott Nash, Daniel Richardson and Aaron Aboshio have won the northern heat of the Youth Entrepreneurs Scheme 'Engineering YES' competition for their spin-out renewable energy company Atlantis.
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