The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have named this year's Bronze Tablet awardees. Of the 82 graduating seniors to receive this honor, 16 are from the Department of Statistics. Each year, the Bronze Tablet is inscribed with the names of new graduates and placed in the Main Library to honor academic achievement. To achieve this honor,...
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Multiple Department of Statistics faculty, staff, and students have been named recipients of the LAS Impact Award for recognizing inspiring efforts during COVID-19. Recognizing the dedication and efforts of LAS faculty, staff, and students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has named more than 500 recipients of the LAS Impact Award. The LAS Impact Award is...
The American Statistical Association (ASA) have selected Yangfan Zhang - fourth year PhD student - as one of three winners of the Student Paper Awards of ASA Nonparametric Statistics. Yangfan's paper, titled: Adaptive Inference for Change Points in High-Dimensional Data will be presented at a special Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) topic-contributed session "Nonparametric Statistics...
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- College Factual, a collegiate ranking site focused on using the best data available to help students make smart choices with their education and pocketbooks, recently ranked the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as the #4 Best College for Statistics majors for 2021. Part of the...
- David Blackwell had a distinguished career while living an extraordinary life. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Era, Blackwell’s life is one of inspiration. From the very beginning, Blackwell overcame insurmountable odds to become an...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $15.5 million to four universities in Illinois, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to create an institute to bring powerful mathematical ideas to bear on key contemporary scientific and technological challenges. Researchers...
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Alumni Spotlight: Rachel Koloms ('11, '12) - Advanced Analytics Manager, Molson Coors
In the months leading up to the completion of my undergraduate degree in statistics from the University of Illinois, I was faced with a decision regarding my future. Having had an exceptional group of professors and an amazing cohort of students to work with and learn from, I realized that the U of...