Paige Williams to Receive CAWF Service Award – 5/8

The Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF) is pleased to announce that Paige Williams has been selected to receive the inaugural CAWF Service Award. Dr. Williams is Senior … Continue reading “Paige Williams to Receive CAWF Service Award – 5/8”

Constantine Gatsonis Receives the Zelen Award

The Department was honored to host Dr. Constantine Gatsonis and present him with the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science last week. Thank you to the award committee for their work … Continue reading “Constantine Gatsonis Receives the Zelen Award”

Donna Spiegelman to Receive CAWF Mentoring Award

The Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF) is pleased to announce that Donna Spiegelman will receive the 2018 CAWF Mentoring Award. Dr. Spiegelman is Professor of Epidemiologic Methods … Continue reading “Donna Spiegelman to Receive CAWF Mentoring Award”

Zelen Award with Constantine Gatsonis – 4/26

The 2018 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science will be presented to: Constantine Gatsonis, Ph.D. Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics Founding Director of the Center for Statistical Sciences Founding … Continue reading “Zelen Award with Constantine Gatsonis – 4/26”

New Student Fellowship Funded by PTC Therapeutics

The Department has recently received a $50K grant from global pharmaceutical company PTC Therapeutics. to fund a new student fellowship in biostatistics. The Department is very grateful for the leadership … Continue reading “New Student Fellowship Funded by PTC Therapeutics”

Alisa Stephens-Shields Wins UPenn Faculty Award

Alumna Alisa Stephens-Shields, PhD ’12, received one of the newly established Distinguished Faculty Awards at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. The award serves to … Continue reading “Alisa Stephens-Shields Wins UPenn Faculty Award”

Student / Postdoc Awards

Two biostats students won awards during ENAR last week in Atlanta. Danilo Alivares received a distinguished student poster award for “A Sequential Approach to Bayesian Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data” and David Cheng received … Continue reading “Student / Postdoc Awards”