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Department Award Winners
At the department spring gathering we honored some of our outstanding faculty, staff and students. Congratulations to all the award winners!
Outstanding Teacher
Yoonkyung Lee -…

Defne Ceyhan awarded Goldwater Scholarship
Defne Ceyhan, a second-year honors student majoring in Data Analytics with a minor in Biology, has been awarded a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Ceyhan started computational genomics…

Shili Lin honored at conference on Advances in Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Biomedical, Genetic, and Omics Data
Professor Shili Lin was the Guest of Honor at the Advances in Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Biomedical, Genetic, and Omics Data conference last weekend. Prof. Lin was…

Statistics major wins award at 2023 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
Congratulations to Statistics undergraduate Jimmy Erkens for winning second place in the Animal Sciences category at the 2023 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum! The Denman…

Yoonji Kim wins 3rd place in Three Minute Thesis competition
Congratulations to Statistics PhD student Yoonji Kim for winning third place in the College of Arts and Sciences Three Minute Thesis competition! In the competition, graduate students are…

5th Annual Florence Nightingale Day for grades 8-12
The 5th Annual Florence Nightingale Day will be held on October 29 at Ohio State University and virtually. Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing and a pioneer in data…

Interdisciplinary Team awarded NCI funding for cancer treatment disparities research
Jennifer Sinnott, associate professor of statistics, is a member of an interdisciplinary team recently awarded a $2.4 million R37 MERIT Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for…

Ohio 5-OSU SURE program concludes 4th summer
The Ohio 5-OSU SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) program invites students from the Five Colleges of Ohio (College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College and…

Peruggia and Team Win Interdisciplinary Research Pilot Award from TDAI
Mario Peruggia and collaborators Shadrick Addy (OSU Design and ACCAD) and Deborah Kunkel (Clemson University and OSU Statistics alumna) were selected by the Translational Data Analytics Institute…