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.
Katherine Lovelace
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2024 - 2025
Yikun Zhang
Dorothy M. Gilford
2023 - 2024
Harshil Desai
Dorothy M. Gilford
2022 - 2023
Nicholas Irons & Seth Temple
Z.W. Birnbaum
2022 - 2023
Shirley Mathur
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2022 - 2023
Alana McGovern & Jess Kunke
Dorothy M. Gilford
2021 - 2022
Lang Liu & Anna Neufeld
Z.W. Birnbaum
2021 - 2022
James Buenfil & Jess Kunke
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2020 - 2021
James Buenfil
Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
2020 - 2021
Shane Lubold & Hanyu Zhang
Z.W. Birnbaum
2020 - 2021
Michael Pearce & Anupreet Porwal
Dorothy M. Gilford
2020 - 2021
David Marcano
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2019 - 2020
Richard Guo & Yandi Shen
Z.W. Birnbaum
2019 - 2020
Bryan Martin & Anna Neufeld
Dorothy M. Gilford
2019 - 2020
Jessica Perry
Dorothy M. Gilford
2018 - 2019
Shane Lubold
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
2018 - 2019
Hannah Director & Sean Jewell
Z.W. Birnbaum
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
Chris Volinsky
Z.W. Birnbaum
1995 - 1996
Ingo Ruczinski
Dorothy M. Gilford
1995 - 1996
Dean Billheimer
Z.W. Birnbaum
1994 - 1995
Simon Byers
Dorothy M. Gilford
1994 - 1995
Wendy Meiring
Z.W. Birnbaum
1993 - 1994
Craig Aumann
Dorothy M. Gilford
1993 - 1994
Geof Givens
Z.W. Birnbaum
1992 - 1993
Chris Volinsky
Dorothy M. Gilford
1992 - 1993
Shili Lin
Z.W. Birnbaum
1991 - 1992
Paul Nakayu
Dorothy M. Gilford
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