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2022

Congratulations to Joelle Mbatchou!

June 29, 2022

Joelle Mbatchou, PhD'19

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

Lijia Zhou, PhD student

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

Congratulations to our Consulting and Senior Consultant Award winners for Spring 2022.


The Spring 2022 Consulting Cup Award

May 26, 2022

Congratulations to the Spring 2022 Consulting Cup winners! 


Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching 2022

May 26, 2022

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

Maroon outlined phoenix

Wishing all the best to our Spring Quarter graduates!


Prof. Lek-Heng Lim awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

April 11, 2022

Lek-Heng Lim, Professor

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

Lek-Heng Lim, Professor

Prof. Lek-Heng Lim, Department of Statistics, has been selected as a 2022 SIAM Fellow


The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup Award

March 9, 2022

The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup Award Winner--The Wednesday Team!

Congratulations to The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup winner - The Wednesday Team!


Our Winter Quarter 2022 graduates

February 28, 2022

Maroon outlined phoenix

Congratulations to our Winter Quarter  2022 graduates!


Prof. Chao Gao awarded a Sloan Fellowship for 2022

February 15, 2022

Chao Gao

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

City Colleges of Chicago students learn in a wet lab in Abbott Memorial Hall.

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

The Consulting Cup winning team for Fall 2021.

Congratulations to The Fall 2021 Consulting Cup winner -- The Thursday Team! 


Prof. Rebecca Willett Named IEEE Fellow

November 29, 2021

Rebecca Willett, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science

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

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.