2022
Congratulations to Joelle Mbatchou!
June 29, 2022
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Statistics alumnus Joelle Mbatchou, PhD'19, has been selected as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35.
Our 2022-2023 Harper Fellow!
June 7, 2022
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Statistics PhD Lijia Zhou has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-23.
Our Spring 2022 Consulting and Senior Consultant Award Winners
May 26, 2022
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Congratulations to our Consulting and Senior Consultant Award winners for Spring 2022.
The Spring 2022 Consulting Cup Award
May 26, 2022
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Congratulations to the Spring 2022 Consulting Cup winners!
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching 2022
May 26, 2022
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Congratulations to Prof. Wei Biao Wu for receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.
Our Spring Quarter 2022 graduates
May 10, 2022
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Wishing all the best to our Spring Quarter graduates!
Prof. Lek-Heng Lim awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
April 11, 2022
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Congratulations to Prof. Lek-Heng Lim on being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022!
Lek-Heng Lim selected as a 2022 SIAM Fellow
April 4, 2022
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Prof. Lek-Heng Lim, Department of Statistics, has been selected as a 2022 SIAM Fellow.
The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup Award
March 9, 2022
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Congratulations to The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup winner - The Wednesday Team!
Our Winter Quarter 2022 graduates
February 28, 2022
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Congratulations to our Winter Quarter 2022 graduates!
Prof. Chao Gao awarded a Sloan Fellowship for 2022
February 15, 2022
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Prof. Chao Gao awarded a Sloan Fellowship for 2022
2021
New UChicago-City Colleges of Chicago Program Will Train Next Generation of Data Science Educators
December 16, 2021
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A new UChicago - CCC Data Science Preceptorship Program, now accepting candidates to start in 2022-2023, will place recent Ph.D. graduates in teaching roles at both institutions and provide them with faculty mentoring and training in creating effective and inclusive learning environments.
The Fall 2021 Consulting Cup Award
December 2, 2021
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Congratulations to The Fall 2021 Consulting Cup winner -- The Thursday Team!
Prof. Rebecca Willett Named IEEE Fellow
November 29, 2021
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Rebecca Willett, Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, was elevated to IEEE Fellow in the organization's 2022 class. Willett was recognized by IEEE “for contributions to the foundations of computational imaging and large-scale data science.”
2021-2022 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardee
November 29, 2021
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Jongyoon Baik, MS candidate in Statistics, and PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a 2021-2022 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) by the American Political Science Association for her dissertation research.