09/22/2023 - Professor Bo Li of the Department of Statistics has been named a recipient of the Marjorie Roberts Professorship. This distinguished honor from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the...
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09/19/2023 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's prestigious Doctoral Student Teaching Award. The annual award, presented at the...
09/18/2023 - Pranavi Challagonda has stepped up as the president. The club experienced a brief lull following Covid, but Pranavi has a strategy to kick things into gear this semester. She’s not working alone. She...
09/15/2023 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois is home to a group of exceptional student leaders known as the Illinois Statistics Ambassadors. These passionate and driven individuals are...
08/08/2023 - Kelly Findley created the Teaching Assistant (TA) Training Committee in Fall 2020. His purpose behind this was to “enrich the experience of PhD students in the Statistics Department and to give them...
07/17/2023 - The third annual Blackwell Summer Scholars Program concluded on June 29th, 2023, with the scholars presenting their research projects. This 6-week summer program was planned and put together by the...
07/02/2023 - Professor Xinran Li of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Statistics has been awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER Proposal grant. The grant, titled "Advances in Randomization...
06/28/2023 - This summer marks the 3rd consecutive year the Department of Statistics is hosting the David H. Blackwell Summer Scholars Program. It was planned and put together by the department’s Diversity,...
06/20/2023 - The David H. Blackwell Summer Scholars Program began in the Summer of 2021. It was planned and put together by the department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity committee in the honor of Dr. David...
05/25/2023 - 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...
05/15/2023 - 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...
05/15/2023 - 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...
05/12/2023 - Five years ago, and with only 18 students, Illinois Computer Science professor Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider began shepherding a...
05/01/2023 - 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...
03/22/2023 - 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...