Postdoc and alumna Sheila Gaynor, PhD ’18, has recently been awarded an early career investigator award from the NIH! Dr. Gaynor received a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the NHLBI, which … Continue reading “Sheila Gaynor Receives New Career Investigator Award & K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award”
Xihong Lin will give a presentation at the virtual 2021 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) on a JASA Applications and Case Study Discussion Paper entitled: Regression Models for Understanding COVID-19 Epidemic Dynamics with Incomplete … Continue reading “Xihong Lin to Present at JSM – 8/11”
Congratulations to research associate Zilin Li who has been selected to receive an Institute of Mathematical Statistics New Researcher Travel Award! The award is available to IMS members who are new researchers– any … Continue reading “Zilin Li Receives IMS New Researcher Travel Award”
The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science webinar series features the latest research that is positioned on the cusp of new understanding and analysis of COVID-19 pandemic data, and promotes data-driven research … Continue reading “COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science Webinar w. Dr. Harvey Fineberg – 3/18”
Women have played an integral role in the success of the Department of Biostatistics from its inception. Dr. Jane Worcester (pictured in black and white) first joined the Department as a student … Continue reading “International Women’s Day – March 8”
Congratulations to Professor Xihong Lin who has been named the 2021 Mosteller Statistician of the Year! The award is in recognition of her pioneering work on statistical methods for the analysis of massive genomic, … Continue reading “Xihong Lin Named 2021 Mosteller Statistician of the Year”
Join us for the next round of Lightning Talks on: Friday, March 5th 4:00pm | Via Zoom With faculty speakers: Rafa Irizarry Xihong Lin Junwei Lu Rachel Nethery John Quackenbush … Continue reading “Next Round of Lightning Talks – 3/5”
Professor Xihong Lin will serve on the WHO and UN DESA Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment. “In the context of the collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations … Continue reading “Xihong Lin Joins TAG on COVID-19 Mortality Assessment”
via BU School of Public Health: The 2021 L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics, has been awarded to Xihong Lin, professor of biostatistics and … Continue reading “Xihong Lin Receives Boston University’s L. Adrienne Cupples Award”
The NIH Community Engagement Alliance, National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Research Mentoring Network (NRMR) will host a webinar on Addressing Attitudes & Science Mistrust During the COVID-19 Pandemic at 12:30-2:30 on Thursday, January … Continue reading “Addressing Attitudes & Science Mistrust During COVID-19 – 1/28”
