The 2020 Biostatistics graduates were honored by family, friends, faculty, and staff during a virtual celebration ceremony on June 14.

Congratulations to our department student and staff honorees, recognized by the UW School of Public Health Excellence Awards for 2020.

Lurdes Inoue, the Gilbert S. Omenn Endowed Chair in Biostatistics, is among 32 University of Washington Latinx faculty members recognized for their achievements this year by the UW Latino Center for Health.

"Alex's creativity and dedication culminated in an outstanding thesis, and its publication is a fantastic achievement," says Paynter’s advisor Amy Willis, an assistant professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health and the paper’s co-author.

Bruce Weir, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, recently received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support student scholarships for the Summer Institutes in St