BioinformaticsPhD Candidate Yaqin Si is set to have her dissertation defense on Friday August 7, 2026 in Ricks 336 at 9:30am. Her dissertation is titled: " Statistical and Computational Methods for Structural Variant Association Analysis in Whole-Genome Sequencing Studies". Jung-Ying Tzeng and Wenbin Lu serve as co-chairs Please come out and support Yaqin!!!

Join us for Hacky Hour, part of the Hazel HPC Workshop Series, where participants gain practical, hands-on experience using NC State’s Hazel High Performance Computing (HPC) system. This session introduces core HPC concepts and guides users through transferring data with Globus, navigating the Hazel environment, and running and monitoring jobs efficiently.