Thomas Lumley, PhD ’98, an affiliate biostatistics faculty member in the University of Washington School of Public Health, is among the recipients of the $1 million 2026 Rousseeuw Prize in Statistics, considered the Nobel Prize for statisticians. Lumley and others were recognized for their pivotal achievements in advancing R programming language.
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Highlights from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics graduation ceremony held June 6, 2026. Students were celebrated for their academic accomplishments by faculty advisors and department leadership.
Congratulations to Yifan Lin, recipient of the Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence, and Gabriella Vasconcelos, recipient of Outstanding Doctoral Student, awared by the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Master’s student Yifan Lin developed a tool to help understand Alzheimer's and other diseases. Lin received the Omenn Award for Academic Excellence as a biostatistics master's student at the University of Washington.
University of Washington School of Public Health researcher Kevin Lin, along with his collaborators in the UW School of Medicine, recently received a $75,000 development award from the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) for a project examining this mystery through microglial resilience and data integration.