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The 2025 Mitchell Prize has been awarded to Statistics Professor Elena Erosheva who co-authored a paper with former UW Statistics Ph.D. student Michael Pearce (Assistant Professor, Reed College)…
The Department of Statistics at the University of Washington is firmly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. To this end, during the academic year 2026-2027, we are running the pre…
We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during the Autumn 2026 quarter. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate…
UW Statistics and Sociology Emeritus Professor Adrian Raftery was recently awarded the IFCS 2026 Research Medal. This medal is awarded to outstanding Classification researchers in recognition of…
We are pleased to announce that Xinwei Shen, Assistant Professor of Statistics, has received grant funding support from the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) for her proposal “Universal Generative Models”.…
Congratulations to Saksham Jain, a PhD student in the Department of Statistics, for being selected as a winner for the 2026 NESS Student Research Award. The NESS Student Research Award is designed to…
The UW Statistics Department has been ranked once again as the #6 Graduate Program in U.S. News and World Report for 2026. This #6 ranking is also shared with Carnegie Mellon, Duke University, and…
We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during the Spring 2026 quarter. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate…
Department of StatisticsApril 14, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Majoring in Statistics (Register here)Meet with academic advisor, teaching faculty and current students to learn about the…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) have officially released the prepublication version of a major consensus study, Frontiers of Statistics in Science and…