News

Jul 23, 2010

Bloomfield to Serve as Interim Department Head

Peter Bloomfield has agreed to serve as interim head of the Department of Statistics, effective September 13, 2010. Bloomfield will serve as head while NC State conducts a national search for a permanent head.

Jul 15, 2010

Tsiatis named inaugural Cox Professor

We are pleased to announce that Provost Arden and Chancellor Woodward have approved the recommendation by the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences to appoint Anastasios A. “Butch” Tsiatis as the inaugural Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor of Statistics.

May 19, 2010

Sastry Pantula – NSF Director of Division of Mathematical Sciences

Sastry Pantula, professor and head of the Department of Statistics at NC State University and president of the American Statistical Association, has been named director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.

May 15, 2010

Marie Davidian – Recipient Holladay Medal for Excellence

It is my honor to inform you that Marie Davidian has been selected as a 2009-2010 recipient of the Alexander Quarles Hollady Medal of Excellence.

Apr 15, 2010

Dr. Hughes-Oliver Receives Outstanding Extension Service Award

he NCSU Office of Diversity and Inclusions has name Dr. Hughes-Oliver the recipient of the Outstanding Extension Service Award for the college of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Apr 9, 2010

Statistics Students Blossom at NC State

North Carolina State University is growing yet another bumper crop of great undergraduate and graduate statistics students.

Apr 7, 2010

2010 D.D. Mason Award Recipient is Dr. Tom Reiland

This award is made in recognition of Dr. Tom Reiland's years of exemplary service to the department in various areas, including his outstanding teaching in many many courses, development and delivery of some of our distance education courses, developing outstanding teaching award packages for our faculty, being a teaching mentor to junior faculty, organizing teaching seminars through PAMS Teaching Advisory Committee, his service to the Operations Research Program, maintaining a highly visited website with sports statistics, and spreading a cheer through his positive attitude!

Mar 25, 2010

Dr. Tom Gerig receives Paul Minton Service Award at ENAR 2010

The Paul Minton Service Award is granted to Tom Gerig of North Carolina State University in recognition of his leadership as a Graduate Director and Head of the Department of Statistics at NC State, building a very successful Graduate Industrial Traineeship program for training future problem solvers, his continuous dedicated promotion of SRCOS for many years, and his national leadership in promoting vertical integration of research and education in mathematical sciences.

Feb 17, 2010

Research Matters

Alison Motsinger-Reif, Assistant Professor of Statistics, authored 6 journal articles in 2009, one of which has been cited 60 times [as of Jan 2010].

Oct 30, 2009

SAS Hall – Honor Award at 2009 Institute of Architecture

SAS Hall, the new home for the NC State University Mathematics and Statistics departments, received an Honor Award at the 2009 American Institute of Architecture South Atlantic Region conference held in Greenville, SC.