PhD students Yiqun Chen and Kun Yue won students awards at the recent annual conference of the Western North American Region (WNAR) of the International Biometric Society.

It’s estimated 150 million Americans – 57 per cent of the country – watched the verdict in the 1995 OJ Simpson trial. The case dominated news bulletins around the world and in the stand as an expert witness was Kiwi mathematician Bruce Weir.

DEOHS and Biostatistics Professor Lianne Sheppard doubly honored with endowed professorship and EPA committee chairship.

Lianne Sheppard, a professor in the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, will chair the newly established Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The University of Washington Genetics Analysis Center (GAC), based in the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, will be the Coordinating Center for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s new Polygenic Risk Score Diversity Consortium.