Our rising second year PhD students presented their summer projects last Tuesday and Wednesday. There were some fantastic presentations that demonstrated the application of several statistical and computational methods to … Continue reading “Biostatistics Summer Projects”
Tyler VanderWeele‘s new book “Explanation in Causal Inference: Methods for Mediation and Interaction” was recently published by Oxford University Press. It is available on Amazon or from Oxford University Press. … Continue reading “Awards & Honors”
Scott L. Carter has been appointed to the school’s faculty and will join the department as Assistant Professor of Computational Biology. Dr. Carter also holds a faculty appointment in the … Continue reading “Faculty News”
The Biostatistics Summer Projects Presentations will be held on Tuesday, August 25, starting at 1:30 – 5 pm in Kresge 502, and continuing on Wednesday morning 10:30 am – 12:30 … Continue reading “Summer Projects”
Our alumna Judith D. Goldberg, ScD ’72, Professor of Biostatistics at NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Population Health, has been recently named as the honored recipient of … Continue reading “Alumni News”
Francesca Dominici, Professor of Biostatistics and Senior Associate Dean for Research, has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Florence Nightingale David award, established in 2001, and sponsored jointly by … Continue reading “Awards & Honors”
On Friday August 7, a group of faculty, post doctoral fellows and students participated in a retreat for the Medicare Air Pollution Study, entitled Data Science in Environmental Health. The retreat is an … Continue reading “MCAPS Retreat”
The Department named Debashis Ghosh, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health, the 2015 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Ghosh will … Continue reading “Myrto Award”
Recent graduate Natalie Exner Dean is working on a Phase III trial evaluating the efficacy of the rVSV Ebola vaccine. The trial takes place in Guinea and uses a novel … Continue reading “Alumni News”
Former Chair and Adjunct Professor Louise Ryan (PhD ’83) received the Centennial Medal in May, presented by the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) to its alumni honoring their “contributions to society … Continue reading “Awards & Honors”
