<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please share this message with your students and networks. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ana<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">__________________</div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Lehigh University Industrial and Systems Engineering Department is currently accepting applications for fully-funded PhD positions. The deadline to apply is December 15, for a start date of Fall 2024. Interested students are encouraged to learn more about our <a href="https://engineering.lehigh.edu/ise/research/research-directions">research areas</a> in mathematical optimization, data science and machine learning, applied operations research, quantum computing, and uncertainty quantification. The program is <b><u>fully funded,</u></b> and provides support for students pursuing both academic and industry career paths. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To learn more about the program, visit our <a href="https://engineering.lehigh.edu/ise/academics/phd">website</a>, or feel free to join our upcoming information webinar with prof. Frank E. Curtis, PhD Program Director and Advisor (<a href="https://lehigh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fs3LcGdxQe6JXnkBDaq_DA#/registration">registration</a> required). You can also <a href="https://engineering.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/meet">meet with us</a> online.  <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><u><br></u></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Lehigh University is a private research university, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region. We are about one and a half hours from New York City, one hour from Philadelphia, and within 5 hours of Boston and Washington DC. Take a virtual tour of our campus <a href="https://www1.lehigh.edu/admissions/virtual-tour">here</a>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Looking forward to hearing from you - in the meantime, good luck with your end of semester / quarter. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Ana  <b><u><br></u></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><b><font color="#666666">Ana-Iulia Alexandrescu-Anselm <br></font></b></div><div><b><font color="#666666"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#666666">Preferred <a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/she-her" target="_blank">pronouns</a>: she, her</font></span></font></font><i> </i></b></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138">Professor of Practice </font></span></font></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.8px">| Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering</span></font></font></span></span></font></span></font></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138">Director</font></span> <span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.8px">| Lehigh ISE Outreach Program (OutreachISE)</span></font></font></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138">Director </font></span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.8px">| Healthcare Systems Engineering Program</span></font></font></span></span></font></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#e69138">Affiliate F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