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Department of Statistics to co-host mixer event at JSM 2026

The Department of Statistics invites attendees of the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston to join them for their annual Statistics and Biostatistics mixer event! This event will take place…

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Dr. Kate Hu secures university accelerator grant

Please join us in congratulating Kate Hu, whose project was one of fourteen selected for funding through the Spring 2026 President's Research Excellence (PRE) program!

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Prof. Yuan Zhang Secures Grant for AI Data Valuation Research

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Yuan Zhang has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant (amount 150K USD) for the collaborative project, "Statistical Foundations for…

Professor Laura Kubatko Interviewed for Work in Estimating Evolutionary Processes From Large-Scale Data

The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology comprises a wide array of investigators driving innovation at the interface of mathematics and biology. NSF-Simons NITMB…

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