Read The Franklin Institute’s recent interview with alumna Loni Philip Tabb, PhD ’10, where she discusses her current research, how she got into science, her biggest challenges, and how we can … Continue reading “Loni Philip Tabb: A Biostatistician Who’s Breaking Barriers”
In the 2018 US News and World Report ranking of graduate school programs, Harvard Biostatistics tied with Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington as the highest ranked biostatistics … Continue reading “Harvard Among Highest Ranked Biostats Programs”
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”
On Wednesday April 4th, HGWISE and HGWISE GUYS will be holding this year’s second Bias & Beer discussion, to discuss an academic article related to bias in science, over pizza and beer. If you’re interested in attending this … Continue reading “Bias & Beer Journal Club Meeting”
A Visit with Alumnus Aaron Foster, ScD ’00 VP Business Analytics & Insights, Vaccines, Rare Disease & Oncology at Pfizer, Inc., Lecturer in Applied Analytics at Columbia School of Professional … Continue reading “Upcoming Career Development Events”
The department has recently been hosting a 4-part series of mini-sessions on consulting in the statistical sciences, with 3 of the sessions now complete (the 4th session, on CROs, is … Continue reading “Consulting in the Biostatistical Sciences: A Department of Biostatistics 4-Part Mini-Symposium”
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst are excited to co-host the 32nd annual New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) on Saturday, … Continue reading “32nd Annual NESS – Abstracts Due 3/30”
