Alumna Christl Donnelly was recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society, a highly regarded and extremely prestigious honor. The Royal Society is comprised of many of the world’s most eminent scientists and … Continue reading “Alumna Elected to Royal Society”
As many of you know, a symposium in celebration of Jim Ware’s life and career was held on Friday, April 29, featuring tributes from nine of Ware’s colleagues and friends. … Continue reading “Celebrating Jim Ware”
Two summers ago, Nan Laird sat down with former chair Louise Ryan (PhD ’83) to reflect on her 40 years at Harvard. Their conversation is wonderfully comprehensive and discusses her … Continue reading “A Conversation with Nan Laird”
This year’s recipient of the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science was Nan Laird, Professor of Biostatistics and Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Public Health. Nan received this prestigious award in May for her … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen Leadership Award”
Working with Frontier Science and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, the Department organized a special Memorial Service for Marvin Zelen on May 22. As part of the … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen’s Memorial Event”
This year we received an extraordinarily generous gift from Fong Wang Clow ’89, given in honor of her mentor Professor Nan Laird’s retirement. Since supporting our doctoral program remains the Department’s primary fundraising challenge, … Continue reading “Giving Back – New Funds”
As the year closes and we celebrate the holiday season, I would like to express my warm appreciation to all of you in the Harvard Biostatistics community for your many … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Chair Xihong Lin”
Wei Family Fellowship Using the occasion of Professor LJ Wei’s 65th Birthday as inspiration, LJ’s former students Tianxi Cai ’99, Su-Chun Cheng ’95 and Lu Tian ’02, joined by the late … Continue reading “Biostatistics Fellowships”
Professor Nan Laird’s Retirement Celebration: Many of you attended Nan’s retirement event on May 1. Special thanks go to Professors Garrett Fitzmaurice (SD ‘93) and Christoph Lange, who co-chaired the organizing … Continue reading “Recent Events”
