Congratulations to Brandon Sharp, LLCC computer science major, for being awarded the Experiential Learning in Applied Statistics (ELIAS) Fellowship! The overall objective of this fellowship program is to provide experiential training opportunities for students in applied statistics through an immersive, two-year experience that exposes students to both traditional agricultural and environmental research methods and data analysis techniques. Students emerging from this fully supported two-year experience will be competitive applicants for any STEM graduate or professional program of their choosing and will have gained the skillset necessary to be successful in a collaborative environment as a statistician.

Brandon will be attending SIUE in the fall majoring in computer science and minoring in geographic information systems. He will begin work on the fellowship this summer.