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Dr. Yi Huang awarded an ATIP grant

Dr. Yi Huang (UMBC) and Dr. Michael Domanski (University of Maryland  School of Medicine, UMB) have been awarded an Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) grant.  The program is...

Posted: July 16, 2021, 2:55 PM

Neha Agarwala wins the Best Student Paper Award

Neha Agarwala, a doctoral students in the statistics program, has been selected as the winner of the Best Student Paper Award of the Joint Statistical Meetings 2021. The paper Individual and...

Posted: July 7, 2021, 5:44 PM

Dr. Yaakov Malinovsky receives a BSF grant

Dr. Yaakov Malinovsky and his collaborators,  Dr. Goldenshluger Alexander (University of Haifa) and Dr. Zeevi Assaf (Columbia Univiversity), are the recipients of a four-year grant from...

Posted: July 7, 2021, 2:40 PM

Zhao, Mathew, Bebu recipients of ASA's 2021 Youden Award

Drs. Jian Zhao (PhD 2016), Thomas Mathew, and Ionut Bebu are the recipients of the American Statistical Association's 2021 W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing. The award is in...

Posted: June 28, 2021, 11:30 PM

A happy 100th birthday card for Dr. C. R. Rao

The prominent statistician, C. R. Rao, was born in September 10, 1920.  On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the department's statisticians sent him a birthday card to congratulate this...

Posted: September 10, 2020, 10:20 PM

Maya Mueller receives Best Poster Award in Krakow, Poland

Maya Muller's poster titled Application of a SEIRD model to track the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria, presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics...

Posted: September 1, 2020, 3:20 PM

Dr. Dulal Bhaumik, PhD 1988, in the news

Dr. Dulal Bhaumik, PhD 1988 Statistics, is in the news as the coauthor of a study of bacterial vaginosis.  The article titled "The Microbiome Composition of a Man's Penis Predicts Incident...

Posted: September 1, 2020, 2:58 PM

Dr. Brad Peercy receives a three-year NSF-NIGMS grant

Dr. Michelle Starz-Gaiano is coPI

Project Title:  Hybrid mathematical modeling for cell fate determination in clustered cell migration – #1953423 Dr. Brad Peercy (Math & Stat) and coPI Michelle Starz-Gaiano (Biology) have...

Posted: August 5, 2020, 9:46 PM

Robert "Rob" Campbell

Robert "Rob" Campbell, who had been an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics since at least 1997, passed away on July 14, 2020 after a few years of struggle with cancer....

Posted: July 19, 2020, 5:53 PM

Dr. Roman Sznajder, PhD '94

Recognized by a Presidential Research Award at Bowie State

Dr. Roman Sznajder, PhD Applied Mathematics '94, has been recognized by a Presidential Achievement Award for Research and Grants at his home institution, Bowie State University. Dr. Sznajder...

Posted: June 8, 2020, 5:33 PM