Student Awards

Each fall, the UW Statistics Department awards various prizes to graduate students.

  • The Z.W. Birnbaum award, instituted in 1986 in honor of our distinguished emeritus professor, recognizes a PhD student for demonstrating outstanding progress and promise in theoretical, methodological, or applied research on the basis of their General Examination.
  • The Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award, instituted in 1992 in honor of the first Statistics Master's student, recognizes outstanding performance by a graduate teaching assistant during the past year.
  • The Academic Reward for College Scientists (ARCS) fellowship, founded in 1978, funds "PhD fellowships for academically outstanding scholars in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math at the University of Washington and Washington State University".
  • The Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) fellowship, founded in 1970, "is at the heart of the Graduate School’s commitment to expanding graduate education to underrepresented minoritized (URM) communities".
  • The Bernbaum Family Endowed Scholarship was set up in 2019 to support academically meritorious undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in the field of actuarial sciences.

Shirley Mathur

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2022 - 2023

Harshil Desai

Dorothy M. Gilford
2022 - 2023

Nicholas Irons & Seth Temple

Z.W. Birnbaum
2022 - 2023

Lang Liu & Anna Neufeld

Z.W. Birnbaum
2021 - 2022

Alana McGovern & Jess Kunke

Dorothy M. Gilford
2021 - 2022

Shane Lubold & Hanyu Zhang

Z.W. Birnbaum
2020 - 2021

Michael Pearce & Anupreet Porwal

Dorothy M. Gilford
2020 - 2021

James Buenfil & Jess Kunke

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2020 - 2021

James Buenfil

Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
2020 - 2021

Richard Guo & Yandi Shen

Z.W. Birnbaum
2019 - 2020

Bryan Martin & Anna Neufeld

Dorothy M. Gilford
2019 - 2020

David Marcano

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2019 - 2020

Hannah Director & Sean Jewell

Z.W. Birnbaum
2018 - 2019

Jessica Perry

Dorothy M. Gilford
2018 - 2019

Shane Lubold

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2018 - 2019

Wesley Lee

Dorothy M. Gilford
2017 - 2018

Anne Wagner

Dorothy M. Gilford
2016 - 2017

Qiyang Roy Han & Luca Weihs

Z.W. Birnbaum
2016 - 2017

Rebecca Ferrell & Alec Greaves-Tunnell

Dorothy M. Gilford
2015 - 2016

W. Chad Young

Z.W. Birnbaum
2015 - 2016

Corinne Jones & Kyle Lo

Dorothy M. Gilford
2014 - 2015

Jason Xu

Z.W. Birnbaum
2014 - 2015

Amrit Dhar

Dorothy M. Gilford
2013 - 2014

David Gerard

Z.W. Birnbaum
2013 - 2014

James Harmon & Laina Mercer

Dorothy M. Gilford
2012 - 2013

Roddy Theobald

Z.W. Birnbaum
2012 - 2013

Jonathan Azose

Dorothy M. Gilford
2011 - 2012

Bailey Fosdick

Z.W. Birnbaum
2011 - 2012

Bailey Fosdick

Dorothy M. Gilford
2010 - 2011

Dominique Perrault-Joncas

Z.W. Birnbaum
2010 - 2011

Roddy Theobald

Dorothy M. Gilford
2009 - 2010

Le Bao

Z.W. Birnbaum
2009 - 2010

Shaun White & Gail Potter

Dorothy M. Gilford
2008 - 2009

Arseni Seregin & Will Kleiber

Z.W. Birnbaum
2008 - 2009

Ryan Admiraal & Mark Wheldon

Dorothy M. Gilford
2007 - 2008

Roopesh Ranjan & Yanming Di

Z.W. Birnbaum
2007 - 2008

Assaf Oron

Dorothy M. Gilford
2006 - 2007

Larissa Stanberry

Z.W. Birnbaum
2006 - 2007

Linqiu Wu

Dorothy M. Gilford
2005 - 2006

Veronica Berrocal

Z.W. Birnbaum
2005 - 2006

Caroline Cutting & Albert Kim

Dorothy M. Gilford
2004 - 2005

Qunhua Li & Debashis Mondal

Z.W. Birnbaum
2004 - 2005

Amanda Cox & Krista Gile & J. McLean Sloughter

Dorothy M. Gilford
2003 - 2004

Raphael Gottardo & Marloes Maathuis

Z.W. Birnbaum
2003 - 2004

Veronica Berrocal

Dorothy M. Gilford
2002 - 2003

Fadoua Balabdaoui & Mathias Drton

Z.W. Birnbaum
2002 - 2003

Rebecca Nugent

Dorothy M. Gilford
2001 - 2002

Amy Anderson & Solly Sieberts

Z.W. Birnbaum
2001 - 2002

Dana Coe & Kevin Connely

Dorothy M. Gilford
2000 - 2001

Shuguang Song

Z.W. Birnbaum
2000 - 2001

Amy Anderson & Anton Westveld

Dorothy M. Gilford
1999 - 2000

Daniela Golinelli

Z.W. Birnbaum
1999 - 2000

Erin Sullivan

Dorothy M. Gilford
1998 - 1999

Greg Ridgeway

Z.W. Birnbaum
1998 - 1999

Tracy Glass

Dorothy M. Gilford
1997 - 1998

Nilanjan Chatterjee

Z.W. Birnbaum
1997 - 1998

Ying Zhang & Sylvain Sardy

Z.W. Birnbaum
1996 - 1997

Ingo Ruczinski

Dorothy M. Gilford
1995 - 1996

Chris Volinsky

Z.W. Birnbaum
1995 - 1996

Simon Byers

Dorothy M. Gilford
1994 - 1995

Dean Billheimer

Z.W. Birnbaum
1994 - 1995

Craig Aumann

Dorothy M. Gilford
1993 - 1994

Wendy Meiring

Z.W. Birnbaum
1993 - 1994

Chris Volinsky

Dorothy M. Gilford
1992 - 1993

Geof Givens

Z.W. Birnbaum
1992 - 1993

Paul Nakayu

Dorothy M. Gilford
1991 - 1992

Shili Lin

Z.W. Birnbaum
1991 - 1992

Jens Praestgaard

Z.W. Birnbaum
1990 - 1991

James Hughes

Z.W. Birnbaum
1989 - 1990

Michael Newton

Z.W. Birnbaum
1988 - 1989

Charlie Geyer

Z.W. Birnbaum
1987 - 1988

John Michalak

Z.W. Birnbaum
1985 - 1986