The Department has decided to award the 2021 Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize to Asher Spector for his superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis.

The Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize was founded in 2020. It is given annually to the graduating senior concentrator who has the best overall performance (as indicated by coursework results and thesis) and who...

Congratulations to the below concentrators on receiving Hoopes Prizes for their outstanded theses; also to their advisors!

Stephen Casper for his thesis “Efficient and Insidious Adversaries in Deep Reinforcement Learning", advised by Professor Gabriel Kreiman and Professor Lucas Janson.

Katherine Deng for her thesis “Toward a Latent Space Understanding of Regional Identity and Social Connectedness in the United States”, advised by Professor Benjamin Golub and Professor Tracy Ke.

Professor Emeritus Herman Chernoff and his wife, Judy, featured in The Harvard Gazette: here.

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Women’s History Month is honoring Women in Science. Two of the 35 women honored are our own Professors Xihong Lin and Susan Murphy. See the extraordinary people they are with at:

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