In addition to our hugely successful alumni reception at JSM each year, we are also adding another alumni reception this year at ENAR! The reception will be held Monday, March 7, … Continue reading “2016 Alumni Receptions – Join Us!”
The department has developed several new educational initiatives this past year. As Xihong mentioned, the School has approved a new Masters program in Health Data Science. This program affords several … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Associate Chair Brent Coull”
As the year closes and we celebrate the holiday season, I would like to express my warm appreciation to all of you in the Harvard Biostatistics community for your many … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Chair Xihong Lin”
A generous gift from the Minerva Foundation supported NIH cost sharing expenses and made possible the funding of the new Biostatistics Workshop program. Five workshop grants were awarded in the … Continue reading “Small Workshops 2016”
Scott L. Carter joined the department as Assistant Professor of Computational Biology. Dr. Carter is based at the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at DFCI. HMS Assistant Professor of … Continue reading “Appointments 2015”
Doctoral student Joey Antonelli (PhD ’15) won a 2015 ENAR student paper award for his paper “Mitigating Bias in Generalized Linear Mixed Models: The Case for Bayesian Nonparametrics”, written jointly … Continue reading “Student and Postdoc Awards 2015”
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 … Continue reading “Alumni Achievements 2015”
Professor Franziska Michor won a 2015 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. Michor was chosen for her research that fuses evolutionary biology, mathematics, and clinical research toward a … Continue reading “Faculty Awards in 2015”
Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics and Chair, Xihong Lin, was recently asked, “What can biostatisticians do today that they couldn’t do 10 years ago?” Thanks to whole-genome sequencing, Xihong … Continue reading “Off the Cuff with Xihong Lin”
Paige Williams, Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, was recently interviewed for the School’s “The Big 3” series to discuss her upcoming article on the health and development of children whose HIV-infected … Continue reading “An Interview with Paige Williams”
