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Dear colleagues, Some months ago, I gave you a short orientation of our volunteer internet-based mentor programme for Ph.D. students in statistics and probability at universities in developing countries. The programme is sponsored by the International Statistical Institute and the Bernoulli Society. This program is carrying on, and after having announced this opportunity directly to African universities recently, we have received several new applications for mentoring from African Ph.D. students the last days. We therefore need more senior statisticians as volunteer mentors. Because we match the mentor and the student according to competence and needs, we need a rather large pool of mentors to being able find a well-fitting mentor when we get new applications from Ph.D. students. More details are found at the web-page of the programme at http://statmentoring.nr.no . Best regards, Magne Aldrin Chief Research Scientist Norwegian Computing Center, P.O. Box 114 Blindern, N-0314 Oslo, Norway email: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.nr.no/~aldrin tel: +47 22 85 26 58 Professor II, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.