2026 Statistics Department Spring Awards Celebration

Congratulations to the 2026 Statistics Spring Awards winners! On May 6th at the Whetstone Park of Roses fifteen students, faculty, and staff were recognized for their accomplishments. The department extends a thank you to everyone in attendance, and especially to those who participated in the celebration's cornhole tournament.

The award winners are as follows:

Thomas and Jean Powers Teaching Award

Tenure Track Faculty Recipients

Oksana Chkrebtii

Teaching Practice Faculty Recipients (Started in 2022)

Steephanson Anthonymuthu

Teaching Associate Recipients

Ziyu Gao, Geno Hoffman, Ryan Loney, Soundarya Lahari Murari, Alex Nguyen

Staff Award

Jean Scott

Whitney Award

Research Leading to a PhD Recipients

Andrew Heeszel and Kiljae Lee

Best Research Associate Recipients

Jae Chang, Sang Wan Lee, Fangyi Wang

Craig Cooley Memorial Prize

Alan Gan and Fangyi Wang

Congratulations again to the Spring Awards winners!