PhD Student BaoLuo Sun has been selected to receive one of the International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region’s (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Awards. The award recognizes his paper On Inverse … Continue reading “ENAR Distinguished Paper Winner”
PhD Student Georgia Papadogeorgou has been selected as one of the winners of the 2016 JSM Student Paper Competition for her paper Towards Adjustment for Completely Unobserved Confounding.  As part of … Continue reading “JSM Student Paper Competition Winner”
Three new courses are being introduced this year, plus Professor Rafa Irizarry continued to roll out new modules in his HarvardX course, PHX525, Data Analysis for Genomics, over the spring … Continue reading “New Courses”
Concerned by the lack of diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs, doctoral students Octavious Talbot and Alex Ocampo recruited Kelly Mosesso and Sam Tracy to teach programming … Continue reading “StatStart: Diversity in Statistics”
The Summer Program was another great success this year, as the Department hosted 10 undergraduate students, 2 post-baccalaureate interns, and 5 visiting faculty in an effort to increase the presence of underrepresented … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics”
This fall, the Department launched the Career Development Series (CDS), which provides Biostatistics students and post-docs with professional skills training, leadership coaching, networking opportunities, and perspectives on career paths. In … Continue reading “New Career Development Series”
A generous gift from the Minerva Foundation supported NIH cost sharing expenses and made possible the funding of the new Biostatistics Workshop program. Â Five workshop grants were awarded in the … Continue reading “Small Workshops 2016”
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”
Victor De Gruttola will be leading the next Career Development Series session tomorrow from 12-1:30 PM in the Biostatistics Conference Room. During this interactive session, Victor will reflect on his involvement … Continue reading “Career Development Series”
Just before Thanksgiving, doctoral candidate Heather Mattie gave a talk entitled “Biostatistics: Using Numbers to Improve Health and Help Communities Thrive” at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) conference … Continue reading “AISES Conference”
