2018 Message from the Chairs
Cultures around the world celebrate mid-winter holidays to remind us to reflect on the past and to look forward to the opportunities available to us in the future. As … Continue reading “2018 Message from the Chairs”
Please join us as we thank our outgoing chair Xihong Lin for her leadership and service to the Department and congratulate and welcome our incoming Chair John Quackenbush! Thursday, October 4, … Continue reading “Biostat Chair’s Celebration – 10/4”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Join us for this fun new event with faculty members Tianxi Cai, Sebastien Haneuse, John Quackenbush, and Marcello Pagano!
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”