Congratulations to Julie Vu and Dave Harrington on finishing their introductory open source textbook "Introduction to Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences", which has been developed through their Stat102 teaching over the last few years.
This book is a biostats “derivative...

Acknowledging the unique challenges that were faced during the Spring 2020 semester, undergraduate students recommended to Harvard College commendations to faculty for "extraordinary teaching during extraordinary times." Those receiving these awards in the Statistics department were:

Subhabrata Sen: Stat 212, Probability 2
Marie-Abel Bind: Stat 140, Design of Experiments
Kevin Rader: Stat 98, Junior Tutorial and Stat 102, Introduction to Statistics for Life Sciences
Joe Blitzstein: Stat 111, Introduction to Statistical Inference
Neil Shephard: Stat 111,...

The Department of Statistics participated in the Harvard Science Division’s “STEM Shutdown” on 10^th June 2020, focusing the day on reading and discussion meetings about racism in society, research and education. The Department identified action points it will take forward as it seeks to improve its contribution to making Harvard and our discipline of statistics more diverse and welcoming. At the conclusion of the day, we relayed these action points to our Dean verbally and in writing.

Statistics Concentrator Michael Wornow has been awarded this prize, for superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis. 

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