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PhD Student Weiyi Xie Receives Second Place Prize in 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings Statistical Significance Poster Competition
Statistics PhD student Weiyi Xie received a second place prize in the 2015 JSM Statistical Significance Poster Competition.
Shili Lin Receives National Institutes of Health Funding for “Omics Analysis of Three-Dimensional Transcriptional Regulation”
Statistics faculty member Shili Lin received National Institutes of Health funding for “Omics Analysis of Three-Dimensional Transcriptional Regulation.”
Kate Calder Appointed Associate Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Statistics faculty member Kate Calder was appointed an associate director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute. MBI offers research and education programs and workshops to foster the growth…
Soma Roy (PhD '08) Appointed Editor of the Journal of Statistics Education
Soma Roy (PhD '08) was appointed editor of the Journal of Statistics Education, a publication of the American Statistical Association.
Two New National Science Foundation Grants Awarded to Statistics Faculty
NSF grants were recently awarded to statistics faculty:
Yoonkyung Lee, Nonlinear Dimension Reduction Methods
Vince Vu, Statistical Learning for High-Dimensional Relational Data
Data Analytics Major Featured in Amstat News
The data analytics major was featured in an Amstat News article about new undergraduate data science programs.
Read the full story here to learn more about the program.
2015 Joint Statistical Meetings Statistics and Biostatistics Presentations
Seventeen statistics and biostatistics graduate students are presenting at the 2015 JSM in Seattle this summer.
SUNDAY 8/9/2015
Session 41 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-201
“Judgement Post-…
Michelle Everson to Chair American Statistical Association’s GAISE Committee
Michelle Everson, statistics faculty member, was appointed chair of the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) committee to update the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics…
Steve MacEachern Appointed Department Chair
Statistics professor Steve MacEachern has been appointed department chair.