News: Students

The application deadline for Autumn 2022 is January 3rd. Read more about our exciting programs of study at our Divisional and Departmental Admissions sites. Questions? Visit our FAQs.

Professors Dan Nicolae and Peter McCullagh presented the Consulting Award certificates to Micól Tresoldi (winner for 2020-2021), and Dongyue Xie (winner for 2019-2020) at 4:15 pm in Jones 110.

Congratulations and best wishes to our Summer Quarter 2021 graduates!

Please join us in congratulating Micól Tresoldi, winner of our consulting award for 2020-2021.

Congratulations and best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2021 graduates!

The Department's David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given yearly to graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. The award includes a supplement to the student’s summer support. This year, the award is given to Micol Tresoldi for her research on sparsity in ANOVA and F-ratios, and for her outstanding contributions to the consulting program over the years. 

An online symposium featured 11 presentations by student teams from UChicago and French universities affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research, with questions and discussion from faculty supervisors. Attendees voted to choose the best presentations and awarded two prizes. PSD’s Yi Liu in statistics (pictured) and Maria Douaihy of CNRS – U. Montpellier won second place for “Modeling Transcriptional Bursting in Space and Time.” First place was awarded to Marie Greaney of BSD and Maxime Lehman of CNRS – U. Paris-Saclay for “How is Sensory Information Transformed into Appropriate Motor Control?”

Statistics PhD Pinhan Chen has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-22.

Read about our PhD student, Ahmed Bou-Rabee and his research, experiences, and future career plans.

Best wishes to our Winter Quarter 2021 graduates!

PhD candidate, Yi Liu, has been awarded the prestigious SBSS Student Paper Award.

Our application for Fall 2021 is now closed!

Best wishes to our Autumn Quarter 2020 graduates!

Best wishes to our Summer Quarter 2020 graduates!