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.
Sujit Ghosh, professor of statistics in the Department, has been elected president of the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA), a prestigious and significant recognition.
Eric Laber, associate professor in the Department of Statistics, has won the Cavell Brownie Mentoring Award. This award is made in recognition of Laber’s innovative and extensive mentoring of both graduate and undergraduate students.
Rui Song and Eric Laber, associate professors in the Department of Statistics, recently received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards for their research.