Biostats Faculty, Students & Alumni at Statfest 2018

StatFest 2018 was hosted at Amherst College this past weekend. The one-day conference is an ongoing initiative of the American Statistical Association, aimed at encouraging undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups … Continue reading “Biostats Faculty, Students & Alumni at Statfest 2018”

John Quackenbush to Serve as New Department Chair

We are extremely pleased to announce that effective today, August 13, 2018, John Quackenbush, PhD, Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, will serve as the new chair of the Department … Continue reading “John Quackenbush to Serve as New Department Chair”

Another Successful Summer Program Concludes

On July 18-20, the six-week Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology culminated with an extremely successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, reunions, and celebration. All Summer Program activities were designed … Continue reading “Another Successful Summer Program Concludes”

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”

Launch of New Reproducible Science MOOC

Congratulations to all involved with the successful launch of the new HarvardX Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) PH527X: Principles, Statistical and Computational Tools for Reproducible Science.  Taught by instructors Curtis Huttenhower, … Continue reading “Launch of New Reproducible Science MOOC”

New Course in Reproducible Research

The Department would like to announce a new course in reproducible research that addresses the increasing need for scientific rigor and transparency in studies of biomedical data. Course content has … Continue reading “New Course in Reproducible Research”