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The Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a person under the age of 40, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.
The Early Edition of Volume 112 Number 25 of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online is released today, and includes a Q&A with Rob -- elected to the National Academy in 2012 -- about his current research.
The 2015 Centennial Teaching Assistant Awards were announced online and in a full-page ad in The Stanford Daily today. This program recognizes and rewards graduate student teachers in three university divisions.
Erica Klarreich of Quanta Magazine managed a substantial one-on-one with our resident magician during the San Antonio JMMs this past January; the conversation ran from fluid mixing to a national smoosh.
The fellowship is awarded by the Alfred P.
The article's unnamed "Stanford University... statistics professor" is one Lester Mackey, who was honored last year for his first place result with Lilly Fang in the ALS Prediction Prize competition co-sponsored by Prize4Life.
Sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of Statistics, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation recognizes outstanding careers in the discipline and profession of statistics.
A lead article about the Honor Code in today's Stanford Daily referenced Guenther Walther's Stats 60 class and an experiment he conducted to find out how many of his students had cheated while at Stanford.
Third-year PhD student Julie Fukuyama and Statistics professor Susan Holmes were among the coauthors of a paper recently profiled by the School of Medicine News Center.
Sangwon Hyun, a Statistics PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, challenged Drs. Tibshirani (both of them, with Ryan's consent) to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the phenomenon that's spreading ALS awareness across the country.
This week the Department of Statistics is celebrating the life of Department Secretary Angie Martinez, who passed away on September 12th. Kind thoughts and remembrances are being collected on large sheets posted in the Lounge, and will be given to Angie's family at a memorial service this weekend.
Alumnus Noah Simon (PhD, 2013), now at the University of Washington, will receive one of these prestigious five-year career awards created in 2011 for top young biomedical researchers.
Rajarshi Mukherjee joins the Department of Statistics as a new Stein Fellow on September 1, 2014. He completed his PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University after receiving both his bachelor's and master's degrees in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute.
John Duchi joins the Department of Statistics on September 1st. John received his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he has taken full advantage of our excellent Northern California outdoor climate, maintaining interests in cycling, swimming, and backpacking.
The Royal Statistical Society will present Efron with the Guy Medal in Gold this September. In conjunction with the upcoming festivities, StatsLife caught up with the new awardee prior to his trip to the UK to receive the Society's highest honor.
The Walter J. Gores Awards are the university's highest teaching honor.
A paper written by Professor Candès with colleagues Thomas Strohmer, Yonina  Eldar, and Candès’ graduate student Vladislav Voroninski has been selected as one of three papers to receive the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize. The prize is awarded annually to outstanding papers published in SIAM journals, and especially emphasizes papers that
The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is presented each year by the Statistical Society of Canada to the author(s) of an article published in the Journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the paper’s methodological innovation and presentation.
First-year PhD candidate Jessica Hwang has received one of 30 Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellowships for 2014.
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada has announced that Professor Art Own will inaugurate the David Sprott Distinguished Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 14.
The NAS announced today the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 204 new members into one of the country's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded by the Royal Statistical Society to fellows or others who are judged to have merited a signal mark of distinction by reason of their innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics. The award
The department will recognize all faculty who have been honored with various awards and prizes during the 2012-2013 period, as well as formally welcome new faculty members Sourav Chatterjee and Lester Mackey, along with new Stein Fellow Yuval Benjamini.
Assistant Professor Mackey and his collaborator Lilly Fang (PhD, JD) achieved Gold Medal status when their team “y7717” ranked first among Best Performing Teams in the DREAM Phil Bowen ALS Prediction Prize4Life Challenge.
Rob Tibshirani has worked with colleagues for two years on an endeavor known as PubMed Commons, a website that allows scientists to comment on papers indexed through PubMed. It launched Oct. 22.
The department is pleased to announce this profound recognition of our colleague and offer heartfelt congratulations!
Professor Holmes and David Relman, MD, together received a Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health on September 30, 2013. “These awards recognize and support the kind of creative thinking that has put Stanford on the map as the epicenter of innovation,” said Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the School of Medicine.
The Distinguished Alumni Award was presented by Cornell University's Department of Statistical Science.
The award was made during a special graduation ceremony that formed part of the university's 600th Anniversary celebrations.