Chair’s Letter
Dear Friends of Statistics,
As the new Department Chair and a new member of the UW family, I am delighted to share with you an update on our accomplishments over the last few months, as well as my outlook for the year ahead. Read more here.
Teaching and research highlights
- Several statistics faculty involved in COVID-19 research
- New courses on Mathematics and Philosophy of Elections offered in Autumn 2020
- Watch the inaugural Blackwell seminar!
- UW statistics faculty play leading roles in new NSF-funded Institute for Foundations of Data Science and new NIH-funded training program in advanced data analytics for behavioral and social sciences
People highlights
- Welcomed our new faculty!
- Three faculty members promoted
- Perlman, Stuetzle, and Wellner Retire after +35 years at UW
- Faculty members elected to office in the American Statistical Association
- Student, faculty and alumni recognized with awards
Keep in touch!
- If you have news about an alumni or friend of the department that you would like to share with us, reach out to us at office@stat.washington.edu
- Strengthen our department through the Friends of Statistics Fund which is perhaps the single most important resource for the department. Gifts to this fund provide unrestricted support that can be directed where it is needed most
- Donate to help out students who are impacted by this crisis - UW Seattle COVID-19 Emergency Student Fund
- If you are a student in need or know a student who needs support, please direct them to the Student Emergency Aid Request Form.