Recent News

Abel Rodriguez, Professor and Chair of Statistics, will serve as a speaker/panelist for the ASA Committee on Funded Research & JEDI Outreach Group sponsored Webinar:  Funding Justice, Equity,…
We are pleased to announce that Jon Wakefield, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, has received 5 years of grant funding support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child…
Congratulations to Tyler Mccormick who received a promotion to Full Professor, effective September 16, 2023 and to Yen-Chi Chen who received a promotion to Associate Professor, effective September 16…
We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Autumn 2023. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students of…
Researchers are more likely to write scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that can’t be explained by varying gender representations across scientific disciplines and time.…
We are pleased to announce that Daniela Witten, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics and Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair, has received grant funding support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR…
We are pleased to announce that Alexander Giessing, Acting Assistant Professor of Statistics, has received grant funding support from the National Science Foundation for his research on “…
Chair’s Letter Dear Friends of UW Statistics,I reach out to you as we celebrate the end of another academic year and the start of a beautiful summer in Seattle. 2022-2023 was another academic year…
We are pleased to announce that Tyler McCormick, Associate Professor of Statistics and Sociology, has received grant funding support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development…
Dear Friends of UW Statistics,  I reach out to you as we celebrate the end of another academic year and the start of a beautiful summer in Seattle. 2022-2023 was another academic year full of…