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Case
Congratulations, Catherine!

Catherine Case receives the 2022 General Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award. This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction.

Students
Congratulations to UGA Students!

Congratulations to Haoran Lu, Jeevan Jankar and Mengrui Zhang for winning the Excellent Poster Awards at the 2021 Georgia Statistics Day held at Emory University! Congratulations to Shushan Wu and Yongkai Chen for receiving the honorable mentions! Names Posters Haoran Lu Positive-unlabeled Learning with Optimal Transport: Detecting Latent HIV Infected Cells in Single-cell RNA-seq Jeevan Jankar A General Equivalence…

Yiren Hou
Yiren Hou is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Fall 2021

Statistics student Yiren Hou is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Fall 2021. This award includes a one-semester stipend of $1000 to conduct faculty-mentored research. Under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal and Dr. Suraj Sharma (Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors), Yiren will evaluate the optimal spinning process for the production of regenerated protein fiber from milk casein protein. To combat food waste,…

Ping Ma
Congratulation Ping Ma!

Dr. Ping Ma will be appointed as a Distinguished Research Professor, effective July 1, 2021. This appointment is one of the highest honors for research afforded to UGA faculty by the institution. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ma on this prestigious recognition!

Cheng Meng
Congratulations Cheng Meng!

Cheng Meng has been selected to receive the 2021 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award in the Mathematical & Physical Sciences from the Graduate School. We commend him for the high quality of his research accomplishments among a very strong field of nominees! He will be recognized in the UGA Honors Day video which will be released on April 21, 2021. The Graduate School will host a virtual awards ceremony on…

Lynne Billard
"Women Trailblazers in the Statistical Profession" by Lynne Billard

During Women's History Month, the Department of Statistics is honored to feature Professor Lynne Billard's timely article titled “Women Trailblazers in the Statistical Profession,” which provides a historical introduction to remarkable scholars from around the globe. This article appeared in the June 2020 issue of the International Statistical Review. There is also coverage of this article in UGA TODAY.   In her UGA article,…

Nathan Hales
Nathan Hales is Awarded CURO Research Assistantship for Spring 2021

Nathan Hales, a Data Science major, is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Spring 2021. This award includes a one-semester stipend of $1000 to conduct faculty-mentored research. As a CURO Research Assistant, Nathan will investigate the efficacy of face masks for filtering expelled droplets during conversations, under the guidance of Drs. Abhyuday Mandal and Suraj Sharma (Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors). With…

Dan Hall
Congratulations Dan Hall!

Dan Hall receives the 2021 General Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award. This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction.

Jeevan
Congratulations Jeevan Jankar!

Jeevan Jankar is the winner of the 2020 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) student paper competition in the area of applications. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to statistics/biostatistics with a primary application focus. Jeevan got the award for his research on crossover designs for generalized linear models. Congratulations Jeevan!

Joseph
Congratulations to Joseph Resch

Joseph Resch received the Kohler scholarship from Rutgers University, Department of Statistics, where he was recently admitted into the doctoral program starting Fall 2020. He also got admitted to the PhD programs of the Statistics departments of University of California, Los Angeles and Virginia Tech. He looks forward to pursuing his PhD in statistics. Previously Joseph was awarded the 2019 CURO Summer Fellowship. He is currently working…
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