Yue Song Dissertation Defense – 4/9

Doctoral candidate Yue Song will present the dissertation entitled: “Methods for Meta-Analysis and for Modeling HIV Viral Rebound” Dissertation Committee: Rui Wang, Victor DeGruttola, Rajarshi Mukherjee Friday, April 9, 2021 | 9:00am … Continue reading “Yue Song Dissertation Defense – 4/9”

Last Week’s Successful Dissertation Defenses!

Congratulations  to Dr. Kaitlyn Cook who successfully defended her dissertation “Monitoring and Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Trials with Interval-Censored Endpoints” last week! Advisors: Rui Wang, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen Dissertation Committee Members: Rui Wang, Eric Tchetgen … Continue reading “Last Week’s Successful Dissertation Defenses!”

Upcoming Dissertation Defenses

**Contact Jelena Follweiler for Zoom info 5/4/2020 at 12:30 pm Lee Kennedy-Shaffer Statistical Methods for the Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies Advisor: Michael Hughes Dissertation Committee Members: Marc Lipsitch (EPI), Victor … Continue reading “Upcoming Dissertation Defenses”

Alumna Andrea Foulkes, SCD ’00, Joins MGH & HMS

We are extremely pleased to announce that Department alumna Dr. Andrea Foulkes, ScD ’00, has been named the incoming Director of the Biostatistics Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) with a faculty appointment … Continue reading “Alumna Andrea Foulkes, SCD ’00, Joins MGH & HMS”

Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics

On July 20-22 we had an enormously successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, culmination, reunions, evaluation and celebration related to our activities to increase the diversity of our students … Continue reading “Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics”

Dissertation Defense Schedule

April 28 Building 2, Room 426  |  2:00pm Patrick Staples Committee Chair: JP Onnela Networks and Statistical Approaches in Biological Contexts   May 2 Kresge 202A  |  10:00am Godwin Yung Committee … Continue reading “Dissertation Defense Schedule”

Rose Traveling Fellowship

A reminder for students and postdocs that the application deadline is approaching for the Rose Traveling Fellowship Program.    Dr. Deborah Rose has generously agreed to provide financial support for … Continue reading “Rose Traveling Fellowship”

Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award

Professor of Biostatistics Victor DeGruttola (ScD ’86) was this year’s recipient of the Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award.  During a very special day with friends and colleagues, he presented a lecture on “Responding … Continue reading “Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award”