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Concentrator Mridula Shan Receives 2024 NESS and NCWIT AiC Collegiate Awards

March 27, 2024

Concentrator Mridula (Mally) Shan received First Place Prize (specifically, she won the Ruth and Silen M.D. Award for Public Health, Epidemiology, or Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering, and Clinical or Social Science) in poster presentations for this year’s New England Science Symposium.  The poster presented Mally's work on a health security dashboard that she originally created in Stat 108...

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Professor Tracy Ke Receives 2024 COPSS Emerging Leader Award

Professor Tracy Ke Receives 2024 COPSS Emerging Leader Award

March 26, 2024
We are pleased to share that Associate Professor Tracy Ke received a 2024 COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Emerging Leader Award for her contributions to statistical text analysis, statistical methods for complex network data, sparse inference and rare/weak signals, and for her service to the scientific community.  This award is given annually to a maximum of eight early career statistical scientists in recognition of their accomplishments and potential for shaping their field and... Read more about Professor Tracy Ke Receives 2024 COPSS Emerging Leader Award

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 Statistician of the Year award to a distinguished statistician who... Read more about Professor Susan Murphy Receives 2024 Mosteller Award
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Past Award Winners

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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