Some interesting fun facts from the Department’s second 25 years (1999-2024) include:
Mark Berliner was an active contributor to the Nobel Prize winning efforts of the IPCC, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, in 2007.
Thanks to the Department Communications Committee, the “Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University” became a part of the Facebook community in 2010.
In March 2011, Dennis Pearl fulfilled a promise to his students by teaching a lecture while riding a unicycle across the very small and crowded stage in classroom EA 170.
In January 2016, Bill Notz featured in the NBC4 Powerball Jackpot Story.
Doug Critchlow was the 2018 North American Scrabble Championship Division 3 Champion and won the 2019 NASC Division 3 Seniors Trophy.
In October 2002, Bill Notz appeared on TV in a humorous local news story about the formula for determining the football BCS rankings, during which he jokingly (but, as it turned out, correctly) predicted Ohio State would win the National Championship.
In November 2021, Matt Amodio, who received an MAS degree in 2013 from the Department of Statistics at OSU, won 38 consecutive games on “Jeopardy!”.
From 2021-2023, Kate Hu was awarded a number of patents for precision agriculture technologies and using mobile platforms to monitor air pollution.