Dec 8, 2016
The Department of Statistics celebrated its 75th Anniversary during the weekend of October 7-9, 2016. The department was founded by renowned statistician Gertrude Cox in 1941, and the anniversary weekend celebrated its history of excellence in research and teaching.
Dec 7, 2016
The Department of Statistics began the 2016-17 academic year with its annual ice cream social. Over bowls of Howling Cow ice cream, the department welcomed its newest class of undergraduates, online master of statistics students, graduate students and certificate students.
Sep 29, 2016
Fred Wright, Professor of Statistics and Biological Sciences, and Professor Andrew Nobel of UNC have been awarded a new 3-year $1.2 million grant from NHGRI, “Multi-tissue and network models for next-generation eQTL studies.”
Aug 31, 2016
A team of researchers from NC State, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and NIST, including Brian Reich and Alyson Wilson, recently published a fundamental advance in materials science that will allow researchers to use advanced statistical techniques to derive more complete information about the crystallographic structure of materials from existing experimental techniques.
Jul 15, 2016
Leonard A. Stefanski became Interim Head of the Department of Statistics on July 1, 2016. Dr. Stefanski is a highly respected researcher, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, past Editor of JASA, and co-author of three books.
May 11, 2016
It is with mixed emotions that I write to say farewell as head of the Department of Statistics. I will be stepping down effective July 1, 2016, to become dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.
May 9, 2016
The Department of Statistics held its spring commencement ceremony on May 7. Undergraduate and graduate students happily received their degrees in front of an audience full of family and friends.
May 5, 2016
Montserrat Fuentes, head of the Department of Statistics, has won the D.D. Mason Award. The award recognizes her outstanding contributions as department head from 2011 to 2016.
Rebecca W. Doerge is the Trent and Judith Anderson Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Purdue University and is the President’s Fellow on Big Data and Simulation.
May 2, 2016
The Department of Statistics will offer a new data science certificate, in partnership with the Department of Computer Science, in the fall of 2016.
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