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2016 Best Capstone Student Award Winners: John Chamberlin & Cody Pace

Each year, the University of Georgia Department of Statistics awards the Kermit Hutcheson Best Capstone Student Award to an undergraduate student who best exemplifies the standards set by Professor Kermit Hutcheson. The winners of this award are students who consistently demonstrate throughout the year dedication to the Capstone philosophy. For the second consecutive year, the award has resulted in co-winners. The co-winners of the 2016 Capstone…


Statistics Team Advances in the Capital One Contest

Congratulations to Statistics students Xianyan Chen, Xiaodong Jiang, Jerry Shi, and Yang Song, who are one of five finalist teams in the Capital One Contest. The team members, along with advisor Jaxk Reeves, have been invited to Capital One headquarters, where they, along with the four other finalist teams, will present their analysis. The winner will be determined after the team presentations, April 20-22, 2016. We wish the best of luck with…


Congratulations Mark Werner & Liang Liu!

The Department of Statistics congratulates Mark Werner on his promotion to Senior Lecturer and Liang Liu on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! We are so happy to have these two distinguished academics represent our department.  Congratulations again! 


Pengsheng Ji Receives the M.G. Michael Award for Research

Congrats to Pengsheng for his recognition of excellence in research!  We are so proud of you! 


Congratulations to Sha Cao!!!!

Sha Cao, a PhD student in Statistics, working in Bioinformatics won the very competitive and prestigious Grimes Family Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Natural Sciences.  The Grimes Fellowship provides academic year support to a graduate student in Franklin College majoring in the Natural Sciences working on the area of cancer research. The applicant should be in good academic standing, have innovative ideas, a strong work ethic and a…


Analytics Shootout Winners!

Two teams of students from the Department of Statistics placed in the top three teams in the SAS Analytics Shootout. It was announced Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at the SAS Analytics 2015 Conference in Las Vegas that the UGA Department of Statistic’s two teams placed first and third. First place went to Fei Liu (Captain), Lina Liao, and Wenbo Wu who were advised by TN Sriram. Third place went to Hao Tong (Captain), Anzhi Li, Richard Ross, Yan Wang…


Connor Gibbs and Andrew Kane Receive CURO Award

Connor Gibbs and Andrew Kane Receive CURO Award have been selected as two of the Fall Curo Award winners. Congratulations Connor and Andrew!


ASA Honors Jennifer Kaplan with the Jackie Dietz Best Journal of Statistics Education Paper Award

The Jackie Dietz Best Journal of Statistics Education Paper Award, established in 2011, is given annually to the best paper in the Journal of Statistics Education in the previous year. It is named in honor of Jackie Dietz, the founding editor of the journal. We are extremely proud of Jennifer J. Kaplan for receiving this honor. She was recognized for her collaborative work with John Gabrosek, Phyllis Curtiss, and Christopher J. Malone titled…


Student Groups Place in Top Three in SAS Analytics Shootout

For the second year in a row, student groups from the Department of Statistics have placed in the top three in the SAS Analytics Shootout.  This year, two groups entered and both placed!  As noted by the competition organizers: "This year’s selection of winners was very difficult due to the large number of outstanding submissions." We are proud of our two teams and wish them both the best of luck.  The final results will be…


UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM UPDATE

Christine Franklin | Undergraduate Coordinator Since the last newsletter where we listed our graduates from 2013, we proudly graduated the following students with a BS degree in statistics: spring 2014 – Obiamaka Achukwu, Matthew Alexander, Dean Baraso, Audrey Brasuell, Doretha Canion, Reina Chau, Mary Martha Clark, Tyna Dao, Christopher Helms, Lewis Jones, Nathain Karner, Pia Kolmers, Hyejin Park, Melissa Pitt, and Benjamin Washington; summer…
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