Announcements

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Congratulations to UW Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics Michael Wu who was named the 2023 recipient of the Bob Riffenburgh award by the American Statistical Society.
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Three new outstanding faculty members will join the University of Washington School of Public Health in the Department of Biostatistics in the 2023-24 academic year.

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After 58 years at the University of Washington, Dick Kronmal, co-director of the Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, professor of biostatistics and statistics, and a founding member of the Department of Biostatistics, retired on June 1.
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Wildfires – and their toxic smoke – are affecting us more often. What can we do about it?
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“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.

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Rebecca A. Hubbard, PhD, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania and alumna of the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics (PhD, ‘07) has been honored with the 2023 Gertrude M. Cox Award.
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Congratulation to all 2023 University of Washington Department of Biostatistics graduates!

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Student and staff members of the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics were honored with 2023 UW School of Public Health (SPH) Awards of Excellence at a ceremony held on May 23.

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Elizabeth Thompson Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
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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.

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