Professor Victor DeGruttola, ScD ’86, will receive the 2015 Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award on Thursday, October 1st. The award is given in recognition of his leadership in HIV/AIDS research, his achievements and innovation in … Continue reading “Lagakos Alumni Award: Victor Degruttola”
Wei Family Fellowship Using the occasion of Professor LJ Wei’s 65th Birthday as inspiration, LJ’s former students Tianxi Cai ’99, Su-Chun Cheng ’95 and Lu Tian ’02, joined by the late … Continue reading “Biostatistics Fellowships”
Thomson Reuter’s Highly Cited Researchers 2015 represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated … Continue reading “Highly Cited Researchers 2015”
Associate Professor Sebastien Haneuse and doctoral candidate Sarah Anoke will be traveling to Chicago this month to speak at Statfest, a one day conference aimed at encouraging undergraduate students from historically … Continue reading “Statfest 2015”
Shirley Liu and Xihong Lin have both been appointed as Professors of Statistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. These appointments were approved by the University and the FAS … Continue reading “Faculty News”
Garrett Fitzmaurice, Professor of Biostatistics based at the McLean Hospital Laboratory for Psychiatric Biostatistics, was selected for a 2015 Teaching Citation Award. The award is given to faculty members who have enriched students’ academic, … Continue reading “2015 Teaching Citation Award”
Tyler VanderWeele‘s new book “Explanation in Causal Inference: Methods for Mediation and Interaction” was recently published by Oxford University Press. It is available on Amazon or from Oxford University Press. … Continue reading “Awards & Honors”
Scott L. Carter has been appointed to the school’s faculty and will join the department as Assistant Professor of Computational Biology. Dr. Carter also holds a faculty appointment in the … Continue reading “Faculty News”
Francesca Dominici, Professor of Biostatistics and Senior Associate Dean for Research, has been selected as the 2015 winner of the Florence Nightingale David award, established in 2001, and sponsored jointly by … Continue reading “Awards & Honors”
On Friday August 7, a group of faculty, post doctoral fellows and students participated in a retreat for the Medicare Air Pollution Study, entitled Data Science in Environmental Health. The retreat is an … Continue reading “MCAPS Retreat”
