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”
Human Oral Microbiome Pilot Funding Educational Event As a follow-up to the successful ReSourcing Big Data Symposium held in March, up to $50,000 in pilot funding is available for research … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Grant Opportunities”
The Department is excited to launch a new Career Development Series to help postdoctoral fellows and students prepare for successful careers. Invited speakers will include faculty, alumni, and leaders in … Continue reading “New Career Development Series”
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2015 round of the Rose Traveling Fellowship Program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Deborah Rose is generously providing financial support for master’s … Continue reading “Rose Traveling Fellowship Program”
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”
conference, “Single-cell Genomics: Technology, Analysis, and Applications” on November 5-6th. Single-cell genomics is an exciting new field with many biological and medical applications. The ability to quantify genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic … Continue reading “PQG Conference”
Sy Han (Steven) Chiou is a newly hired postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Rebecca Betensky on collaborative projects in neurology and other medical areas. Steven received his PhD in … Continue reading “Postdoc 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”
Our rising second year PhD students presented their summer projects last Tuesday and Wednesday. There were some fantastic presentations that demonstrated the application of several statistical and computational methods to … Continue reading “Biostatistics Summer Projects”
