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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">The </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">PhD Training Program in Computational Bioscience </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">at </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">the University of Colorado</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(61,62,65)">,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)"> <span>Anschutz
Medical Campus,</span> is accepting applications for funded PhD student
positions for the coming academic year. <span> </span></span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">Our graduate student and
post-doctoral </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">fellow </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">training program </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">is </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">funded </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">by </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">the
National </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">Library </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">of Medicine, allowing us to
provide generous fellowships, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">including </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">tuition, travel, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">equipment, and </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">other </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">benefits for </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">qualified trainees. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">We </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">are currently </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">recruiting Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)"> students and postdoctoral fellows for </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">Fall </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">2015. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">In particular, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">we </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">are </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">looking </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">for students</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)"></span></font></p><font>
</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">with strong </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">computational backgrounds interested in </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">a career </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">in </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">biomedical
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">natural language processing and bioinformatics</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(61,62,65)">.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)"></span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">Specialties of our program include
natural language processing, text mining, and computational linguistics.<span> </span>Our faculty are active in the areas of
information extraction, named entity recognition and concept normalization,
corpus linguistics, information retrieval, question-answering, computational
lexical semantics, document classification, and software engineering for
natural language processing.<span> </span>Application
areas include epilepsy, spinal cord injury, suicide prevention, and
high-throughput assay analysis.<span> </span>Students
in the program have the opportunity to do rotations with leading researchers in
the field of biomedical natural language processing, including Kevin Cohen,
Larry Hunter, Martha Palmer (U. Colorado Boulder campus), and James Martin (U.
Colorado Boulder campus). </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)"><span> </span></span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">Our program focuses on giving
students a strong background in biology and computational bioscience, enabling
them to approach the biomedical literature and clinical texts as near-“native
speakers.”<span> </span>To that end, the first year
of graduate education includes one semester of an intensive course in biology
and two semesters of computational bioscience.<span>
</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">Our students have a tradition of outstanding
accomplishments, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">including </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">publications </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">in </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">leading journals and presentations at key conferences. All of
our graduates </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">have </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">gone on
to productive careers in bioinformatics</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(61,62,65)">,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)"> ranging across academic, government, and </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">industrial institutions.</span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">For more information about the
program, please</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">visit
the Program's website at </span><a href="http://compbio/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,233)">http://compbio</span></a><u><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,0,233)">.<a href="http://ucdenver.edu" target="_blank">ucdenver.edu</a>,</span></u><span style="font-family:Calibri"> <span style="color:rgb(35,36,36)">where you can further explore our program and application </span><span style="color:rgb(18,19,19)">materials </span><span style="color:rgb(35,36,36)">can be
located. <span> </span>Also feel free to contact Kevin
Cohen at </span></span><a href="mailto:kevin.cohen@ucdenver.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri">kevin.cohen@ucdenver.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">, Larry Hunter at </span><a href="mailto:larry.hunter@ucdenver.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri">larry.hunter@ucdenver.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">, or Elizabeth Wethington, graduate program coordinator, at </span><a href="mailto:elizabeth.wethington@ucdenver.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri">elizabeth.wethington@ucdenver.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">.<span> </span></span></font></p><font>
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</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">The Fall </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">2015 </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">application </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">deadline is </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">December </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(18,19,19)">1, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(35,36,36)">2014.</span></font></p><font>
</font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, PhD<br>Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead, Computational Bioscience Program, <br>U. Colorado School of Medicine<br><a href="tel:303-916-2417" value="+13039162417" target="_blank">303-916-2417</a><br><a href="http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen" target="_blank">http://compbio.ucdenver.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen</a><br><br><br><br></div>
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