Another Great Year for StatStart Program

StatStart finished another successful year and held their final certificate ceremony on Friday. After undergoing an intense month of lectures from Harvard graduate students, the high school students presented their … Continue reading “Another Great Year for StatStart Program”

Department Welcomes Our Incoming Class!

We are extremely excited to welcome a talented and diverse group of students to our incoming class! PhD students (and one incoming Master’s student) began their August preparatory sessions in the Department today.  … Continue reading “Department Welcomes Our Incoming Class!”

Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics

On July 20-22 we had an enormously successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, culmination, reunions, evaluation and celebration related to our activities to increase the diversity of our students … Continue reading “Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics”

Pipelines into Biostatistics Symposium

The Pipelines Into Biostatistics symposium will be taking place on July 21, 9am-4pm in Yawkey Conference Center (Room 306/307, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02115). It is the culminating event for … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Symposium”

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute News

Ayshwarya Subramanian won a Broadnext10 round 3 Catalytic Steps award, an innovative round of funding instituted by the Broad Institute for independent, catalytic ideas by trainees, that will spur important science … Continue reading “Dana-Farber Cancer Institute News”

Welcome to Our Summer Postbacs!

Students arrive next week for the Summer Program in Biostatistics and Computational Biology, but this week we would like to welcome Marcia Higgins and Jimmy Nguyen, who are participating in … Continue reading “Welcome to Our Summer Postbacs!”

Commencement May 31, 2016

We hope everyone had a great long weekend.  In honor of Memorial Day yesterday, read our student story on Army officer, Kevin Cummiskey. We’re so thankful for his service!  Last Thursday was … Continue reading “Commencement May 31, 2016”

StatStart Feature in STN Newsletter

Check out this article on StatStart, published by The Statistics Teacher Network. Written by Octavious Talbot, Alex Ocampo, Sam Tracy, Kelly Mosesso, Marcello Pagano, and 10th-grade student Aisha Rahman from … Continue reading “StatStart Feature in STN Newsletter”