David Schoenfeld will be recognized as the 2017 Mosteller Statistician of the Year by the Boston Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association (BCASA) at a dinner in his honor … Continue reading “2017 Mosteller Statistician of the Year”
The Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship was established in perpetuity in memory of Dr. Myrto Lefkopoulou, a faculty member and graduate of Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lefkopoulou tragically died … Continue reading “Myrto Lefkopoulou Award: Nominations Due 5/13”
The Royal Statistical Society has awarded Harvard Statistics Department Chair Neil Shephard the 2017 Guy Medal in Silver for his seminal paper “Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-based models and some of their uses in financial economics” written jointly … Continue reading “Neil Shephard Receives Guy Medal in Silver”
Jeff Miller, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, and Pierre Etienne Jacob, Assistant Professor of Statistics at FAS, were recently awarded funding by the Radcliffe Institute for a proposed Exploratory Seminar – … Continue reading “Statistics When the Model is Wrong”
Isabel Fulcher and Ben Wong have both been selected to receive one of the American Statistical Society’s Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigator Awards. The awards are intended to defray travel costs … Continue reading “New Student & Postdoc Awards”
Isabel Fulcher and Ben Wong have both been selected to receive one of the American Statistical Society’s Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigator Awards. The awards are intended to … Continue reading “New Student & Postdoc Awards”
As we approach the holiday season, I would like to express my warmest appreciation to faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, alumni, and friends of the Harvard Biostatistics Department for your … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Xihong Lin”
Nominations are due Friday, December 2nd for the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. This annual award, supported by colleagues, friends and family, was established to honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long … Continue reading “Zelen Award – Nominations Due Friday 12/2”
Three new honorary doctors have been appointed by the Faculty of Medicine at Uppsala University in Sweden: Dr Robert Califf, influential clinical researcher and Director of the US Food and … Continue reading “Honorary Doctors Named at Uppsala University”
