Congratulation to all 2023 University of Washington Department of Biostatistics graduates!

Student and staff members of the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics were honored with 2023 UW School of Public Health (SPH) Awards of Excellence at a ceremony held on May 23.

The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, has elected Dr. Elizabeth Thompson as a Fellow. She was selected for her substantial contributions to the advancement of science and for her work in the area of Statistics which has had a beneficial influence on the world.

Daniela Witten's latest column for the IMS Bulletin focuses on important issues related to gender in the field of statistics in general, and within IMS in particular.

Ellen Graham, a doctoral student in biostatistics at the University of Washington has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.