Doctoral student Zachary McCaw has received a 2019 Distinguished Student Paper Award, from the ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, for a paper entitled “Cross-tissue eQTL Calling via … Continue reading “Zack McCaw Receives ASA Student Paper Award”
The Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science was established to honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long and distinguished career as a statistician and his major role in shaping the field of biostatistics. The award recognizes … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen Award – Nominations Due 11/30”
Congratulations to project co-leaders Giovanni Parmigiani and Danielle Braun who recently received the Dean’s Fund for Scientific Advancement: Acceleration Award for their proposal on Inherited Cancer Risk Knowledge Base. Their research team is interested … Continue reading “Parmigiani & Braun Receive Acceleration Award”
Teaching assistants play a critical role in the educational efforts of the department. Outstanding TAs who exceed our expectations are recognized with a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Before nominating TAs for this honor, instructors … Continue reading “Teaching Assistant Awardees!”
Professors Francesca Dominici and Xihong Lin have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Membership in the National Academy of Medicine is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine … Continue reading “Dominici & Lin Elected to National Academy of Medicine”
The Department was honored to host Dr. Amy Herring, ScD ’99, and present her with the Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award last week. Thank you to the award committee for their work … Continue reading “Amy Herring Receives Lagakos Alumni Award”
Dr. Amy H. Herring will be this year’s recipient of the annual Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Herring graduated from the department in 1999, after she defended her dissertation on “Missing … Continue reading “Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award – Thursday”
We are extremely pleased to announce that Curtis Huttenhower has been promoted to Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics! The message below is adapted from Dean Michelle Williams announcement: Dr. … Continue reading “Curtis Huttenhower Promoted to Professor!”
The Department was honored to host Dr. Elizabeth Stuart and present her with the Myrto Lefkopoulou Award last week. Thank you to the award committee for their work in the selection process, the committee chair, Garrett Fitzmaurice, … Continue reading “Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship”
See website for more on Elizabeth Stuart and her upcoming talk. One more individual meeting is available on Thursday – please contact Shaina Andelman to schedule. Students and postdocs may still … Continue reading “Myrto Award: Elizabeth Stuart Lecture – 9/20”
