New Facility to Advance Public Health, Zoonoses Research

Posted on Dec 21, 2011

Getting Vaccinated Is a Winning Strategy

Posted on May 20, 2011
Game theory, which predicts how one player’s reward is influenced by the other players’ decisions, can also be applied to voluntary vaccination programs. If the majority of the population decides to get vaccinated, those who don’t might decide to skip the shot.

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Disease Modelling Is a Numbers Game

Posted on May 20, 2011
     As South Korea battles its worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, U of G researchers are developing statistical models that can predict how infectious diseases spread. 
      “Infectious disease modelling is very important given recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, SARS and H1N1, so there’s a big interest in generating models that effectively describe the spread of a disease over space and time,” says Lorna Deeth, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. 
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University Research Chair: Paul McNicholas

Posted on Jan 31, 2011

Paul McNicholas was recently appointed to the University Research Chair in Computational Statistics. In addition to recognizing Paul's contributions to research, this chair recognizes the importance of Computational Statistics to the university, college, and department. Paul is the first statistics professor to hold a research chair at the University of Guelph, and he will continue to anchor a research group that has played a central role in the recent expansion of our graduate program. 

Paul received his Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin in 2007 and came to Guelph in the same year. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor last summer and he became Associate Chair of the department last fall.