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Harvard Department of Statistics Celebrates Professor Herman Chernoff’s 100th Birthday

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“It’s fair to say that a person can only celebrate a 100 th birthday once in a century,” pronounced Joe Blitzstein, Professor of the Practice, in the Harvard Department of Statistics. Leaning towards an audience of 100 gathered at the Harvard SOCH Hilles...

Statistics Department Early History

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The discussion below is now largely superseded by Xiao-Li Meng's article 55 Years of Harvard Statistics: Stories, Snapshots, and Statistics which appears in the 2013 Springer book Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U...

Professor David Harrington Receives Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science

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During a lunch at the University of Maryland with the biostatistician Marvin Zelen, David (“Dave”) Harrington discussed his thesis and future goals with Zelen, who quipped, “If you don’t come to Buffalo to work in my group, you won’t amount to anything!”...

Arthur Pentland Dempster (1929–2026): Extended Obituary and Tribute

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Arthur Pentland Dempster, Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Statistics at Harvard University and a founding member of its Department of Statistics, died on January 30, 2026, at the age of 96. Over nearly seven decades of scholarship, Professor Dempster...

Interview with 2024 Dempster Prize Recipient Souhardya Sengupta

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In May 2024, PhD student Souhardya Sengupta received the 2024 Dempster Award for his exceptional paper titled " Leveraging Sparsity in the Gaussian Linear Model for Improved Inference," co-authored with Associate Professor Lucas Janson. The Dempster Prize...

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Harvard Department of Statistics Celebrates Professor Herman Chernoff’s 100th Birthday

Statistics Department Early History

Professor David Harrington Receives Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science

Arthur Pentland Dempster (1929–2026): Extended Obituary and Tribute

Interview with 2024 Dempster Prize Recipient Souhardya Sengupta