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Venn diagram showing overlap of organ abnormalities on MRI after COVID hospitalization
Venn diagram showing overlap of organ abnormalities on MRI after COVID hospitalization
MRI reveals long-term organ abnormalities after COVID-19
Interesting Engineering,

COVID-19 can affect various organs in the body, such as the brain, lungs, heart, and kidneys. But what happens to these organs after the infection is over? How long does it take for them to heal? A new study has tried to answer these questions by using MRI scans to look at multiple organs of people hospitalized with COVID-19. UW Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics Daniela Witten comments on the study.

Headshots of Gary Chan and Garnet Anderson
Headshots of Gary Chan and Garnet Anderson
New study of Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations gets $38.7M grant
Fred Hutch News,

Fred Hutch will act as coordinating center for a large study of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in overlooked populations. UW Biostatistics faculty members and Hutch researchers Garnet Anderson and Kwun Chuen (Gary) Chan are part of the center’s leadership team. Affiliate faculty member Li Hsu is also part of the new study .

People walk in Central Park fire haze on Wednesday.
People walk in Central Park fire haze on Wednesday.
Wildfires – and their toxic smoke – are affecting us more often. What can we do about it?
CNN,

“Treating these (wildfire smoke events) as exceptional events, that implies they’re unusual. But they’re getting to be so common that from a protecting public health view that doesn’t make sense,” said DEOHS and Biostatistics Professor Lianne Sheppard.

Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Department of Statistics,

The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, has elected Dr. Elizabeth Thompson as a Fellow. She was selected for her substantial contributions to the advancement of science and for her work in the area of Statistics which has had a beneficial influence on the world.

Daniela Witten
Daniela Witten
Written by Witten: Where my ladies at
IMS Bulletin,

Daniela Witten's latest column for the IMS Bulletin focuses on important issues related to gender in the field of statistics in general, and within IMS in particular.

Illustration of children boarding a school bus
Illustration of children boarding a school bus
University Of Michigan Research Shows Upgraded School Buses Witness Increased Student Attendance
India Education Diary,

Replacing all of the oldest school buses in the nation could lead to 1.3 million fewer daily absences annually, according to a University of Michigan study. Adam Szpiro, associate professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington was a co-author on the study.

Yates Coley stands atop a mountain peak
Yates Coley stands atop a mountain peak
What motivates Yates Coley’s work to build equitable prediction models?
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI),

Yates Coley, PhD, UW faculty member and associate investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI), recently received an Emerging Leader Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

graphic of person working at a computer
graphic of person working at a computer
Data Gaps
UW SPH Magazine,

Investigators commonly find mixtures of DNA in a single forensic sample that contain various unequal contributions, like the DNA samples that could come from multiple people using one knife. Now, the development of technologies can reveal and identify smaller, previously undetectable amounts of DNA samples within the mixture, which enables more specific DNA identification. Faculty member Bruce Weir is interviewed.