2020
Congratulations to our Harper Fellow for 2020-21!
May 27, 2020
Statistics PhD student Sen Na has been awarded the prestigious Harper
Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-21. The University-wide competition awards
financial support toward the completion of the candidate's dissertation.
Spring Quarter 2020 Graduates
May 22, 2020
Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2020 graduates!
Summer Quarter Graduate Registration
May 22, 2020
May 25, 2020: Summer Quarter Graduate Registration Opens at 8:30 a.m. Email Keisha Prowoznik, (kprowoznik@galton.uchicago.edu) if you have questions.
Rina Foygel Barber wins Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize
March 31, 2020
The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early-career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed. The inaugural recipient of the 2020 Peter Hall Prize is Rina Foygel Barber, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Read more
Winter Quarter 2020 Graduates!
February 28, 2020
Best wishes to our Winter 2020 graduates!
2019
The deadline for our Fall 2020 application is December 31, 2019!
December 31, 2019
Faculty Accolade
December 30, 2019
Matthew Stephens was named the Ralph W. Gerard Professor, effective January 1, 2020.
Autumn Quarter graduates!
December 12, 2019
Best wishes to our Autumn Quarter 2019 graduates!
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award
November 26, 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Wei Biao Wu for being elected to receive a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
2020 Class of Fellows of the AMS
November 1, 2019
Lek-Heng Lim, Associate Professor in Statistics and the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative, has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2020 for his contributions to applied mathematics, particularly numerical linear algebra.
New initiative brings together AI and science
October 10, 2019
Prof. Rebecca Willett has been leading a new initiative sponsored by the Office for National Laboratories at the University of Chicago to facilitate new collaborations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and basic sciences in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab. Read more...
The Statistics Consulting Program
October 4, 2019
The Department of Statistics Consulting Program is now open and receiving project requests for the new academic year.
Our application for Fall 2020 is now open!
September 23, 2019
Our application for Fall 2020 is now open!
Geometric Learning Bridges Mathematics and Statistics to Marine Biology and Geophysical Sciences
September 5, 2019
Tingran Gao, William H. Kruskal Instructor, has been developing geometric learning frameworks to analyze 3-D scans of complex biological surfaces.
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter Graduates!
August 21, 2019
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter Graduates!