Undergraduate News

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Senior Lecturer Kelly McConville on receiving this year's Alpha-Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching! This teaching prize is awarded annually to three FAS Faculty by the undergraduate members of Phi...

The Department has awarded the 2023 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize to Rachel Li for her superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis. Congratulations on your achievement, Rachel! The Department of Statistics...

We are pleased to announce that Virginia (Ginnie) Linqian Ma, '23 AB in Mathematics and AM in Statistics, and Jason Zhou, '23 AB in Mathematics and AB/AM in Statistics, have received the inaugural 2023 Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize...

On Saturday, October 22 nd, the halls of the Harvard Science Center were buzzing with middle and high school students at Harvard’s inaugural Florence Nightingale Day (FND). Introduced by the American Statistical Association and the Caucus for Women in...

The Statistics Department congratulates undergraduates Asteria Chilambo (a senior math concentrator) and Jing Shang (a visiting senior in economics from Fudan University) on receiving the best video presentation at the 2022 Electronic Undergraduate...

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the launch of our annual community newsletter, "Stats News," for 2022. We are introducing a department newsletter to help alums and current students, postdocs, and faculty stay connected at Harvard and...

After graduating from Harvard with an A.B. in Statistics in 2013, alumna Michele Zemplenyi had a plethora of career options to consider. Dr. Zemplenyi was not only a statistics concentrator but also completed premed requirements and a thesis in...

It’s the start of the fall semester and time to map out a course schedule, but what will work best for you? You love math, so maybe you should stock up on quantitative courses; on the other hand, it might be a good idea to get some course requirements out...

“The exciting challenge of revamping Stat 100, which is our most general audience intro stats class, was an opportunity that I couldn't say no to,” reflects Professor Kelly McConville, a Senior Lecturer in the Harvard Statistics Department, on her...

Professor Kelly McConville and her summer undergraduate research group are collaborating on survey statistics projects for the US Forest Service. More specifically, they are working on several different projects, including an exploration of zero-inflation...