Awards & Honors

Recent Award Winners

Professor Susan Murphy Receives 2024 Mosteller Award

March 1, 2024
With great excitement, the Department of Statistics would like to share that Professor Susan Murphy was selected by the American Statistical Association's Boston Chapter as the recipient of the 2024 Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award. The award was named after Professor Fred Mosteller, one of the founding members of our department. Every year the Boston Chapter presents the... Read more about Professor Susan Murphy Receives 2024 Mosteller Award
Ginnie Ma and Jason Zhou receive awards

Interview with Virginia Ma about her 2023 Concurrent Masters Prize

February 1, 2024

In May 2023, Virginia (Ginnie) Linqian Ma won the inaugural Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize (along with Jason Zhou ’23 AB/AM).  This prize is awarded annually to the graduating master’s (AM) student who has the best overall performance in coursework, has demonstrated achievements in Statistics outside of coursework, and has contributed significantly to the department.  In following interview (excerpted and edited) from the summer (pardon the publishing delay!), Ginnie speaks with us about her journey as a master’s student through the Stats...

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Yicong Jiang Photo with Chair Sam Kou

Interview with Yicong Jiang on Winning the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize

January 30, 2024

In the May 2023 Commencement Celebration, PhD student Yicong Jiang was awarded the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize for his paper co-authored with Professor Tracy Ke, "Semi-Supervised Community Detection via Structural Similarity Metrics."  The Dempster Prize is named in honor of Emeritus Professor Arthur P. Dempster and is given annually to a graduate student in recognition of the student’s research.  In the following excerpted and edited interview, Yicong shares with us how the Stats Department helped him adjust to living in a new country, discover his passion for research, and hone...

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Departmental Awards

Dempster Award

The Department of Statistics awarded the 2022 Dempster Prize to PhD student Yicong Jiang for his paper “Semin-Supervised Community Detection via Structural Similarity Metrics," co-authored by Prof. Tracy Ke. 

 

 

Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Award

2023 Recipients:
Virginia Linqian Ma,
Jason Zhou

Pickard Award

David Pickard

Once every two years, the David Pickard Teaching Awards will be given to individuals who examplify excellence in teaching.
 


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Additional Awards & Honors

 

Bok Teaching Award

The Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates is given each year to five teaching fellows who have been nominated by their departments.

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Hoopes Prize

From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard has received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research.

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Other Awards & Honors

Honorary Degree Recipients