Franklin Award – Call for Nominations

Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences.  This is a humanitarian award presented annually by Bioinformatics.org to an individual … Continue reading “Franklin Award – Call for Nominations”

Upcoming Career Development Events

The Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM) invites our students and postdocs to visit with a recent Harvard astrophysicist PhD currently in the malaria group at the Institute for Disease Modeling … Continue reading “Upcoming Career Development Events”

Harvard Catalyst: Upcoming Event

Use of Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research: Issues of Study Design and Analysis March 1 | 8:30am-5:30pm 8:30AM-9:00am: Breakfast and Check-in 9:00AM-5:30PM: Symposium Armenise Amphitheater/ Harvard Medical School This symposium … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst: Upcoming Event”

Interview with COPSS Awardee Tyler VanderWeele

Click here to read a full interview with COPSS Presidents’ Award Winner Tyler VanderWeele. Tyler VanderWeele is the recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award. The award is given annually … Continue reading “Interview with COPSS Awardee Tyler VanderWeele”

32nd Annual New England Statistics 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) … Continue reading “32nd Annual New England Statistics Symposium”

Sharon Lise-Normand Named Mosteller Statistician of the Year

Congratulations to Sharon-Lise Normand, who will be recognized as the 2018 Mosteller Statistician of the Year by the Boston Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:00pm … Continue reading “Sharon Lise-Normand Named Mosteller Statistician of the Year”

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen Named Professor at Wharton

Former professor and department alumnus Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD ’06, has been named the inaugural Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The appointment, announced … Continue reading “Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen Named Professor at Wharton”

NIGMS Recognizes Reproducible Science Course

For the benefit of the scientific community, and in response to the NIH’s series of initiatives to enhance rigor and reproducibility in research, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences has … Continue reading “NIGMS Recognizes Reproducible Science Course”