The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has recently announced the selection of 11 projects, with budgets totaling nearly $15 million, as part of its Investment for Growth program. These projects, chosen in the program's fifth round of funding, embody the spirit of collaboration, innovation, and the potential to make a significant impact on the campus community and beyond.
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Dr. Karle Flanagan has been named Director of Inclusive Data Science Education. Flanagan has long been involved in furthering the study of data science on campus. According to her, this started in the Summer of 2018, when she attended a conference at UC Berkeley which focused on how they teach data science courses and aim to integrate data science throughout their campus. When she returned,...
Congratulations to all those who are graduating this semester! We reached out to a few of our Statistics graduates to reminisce on their time at Illinois, and to see what wisdom they had to pass on to their peers. Shannon Ooi is a transfer student who joined us at Illinois in Fall of ‘21. She is a double major in statistics and economics, as well as a statistics student ambassador....
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- Five years ago, and with only 18 students, Illinois Computer Science professor Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider began shepherding a remarkable transformation for the new course offering, ...
- The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has awarded funding to three teams of faculty and staff to advance innovative ideas that aim to improve student experiences, from incorporating one-on-one mentorship with teaching to offering Illinois undergrads and incarcerated individuals the opportunity...
- In anticipation for the upcoming 2023 Datathon, let's revisit last year's Datathon and check in with one of the winners, Peiwen Zhang. The Datathon, held every year, challenges hundreds of students to tackle a real-world problem using data. Participants can expect to utilize a variety of data...
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Alumni Spotlight: Tia Mark ('15) - Business Process Manager, Walgreens
Tia Mark's first job out of college after graduating with her Bachelor's degree in Statistics in 2015 was for a consulting company, Mu Sigma, where she lived in India for six months and was able to travel all over Asia. Currently, Tia is a Business...