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Jae-Kwang Kim, LAS Dean's Professor in the Department of Statistics, published the second edition of his book, "Statistical Methods for Handling Incomplete Data."
Audrey McCombs, co-major PhD candidate in Ecology and Statistics, co-authored a paper titled "Evaluation of the United States COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategy" which was published in The Public Library of
Congratulations to Carlos Llosa-Vite for winning the People's Choice Award at the Iowa State University Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition finals held on October 28, 2021. The People's Choice award is based on viewers of the competition voting their preference.
Jon Hobbs, Department of Statistics alum, is the recipient of this year's Lew Allen Award at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
The Statistics Department chose 10/20 as their day to represent their participation in the Green Dot Awareness Initiative on campus by wearing green. Green Dots can be found around Snedecor Hall this month to state their willingness to learn and understand how to help raise awareness of emo
On October 15th the department held a retirement party honoring Marlene Tjernagel. The event took place outside of MacKay hall where hot cider and cake were provided.
STAT-ers gathered to play cricket at Innes Grove Park on Saturday, October 9th.
On October 5th, department staff, faculty, and their families met up for a group hike on the Reactor Woods trail in North Ames. After the hike, participants enjoyed homemade ice cream provided by Karen Nettleton.
Congratulations to the 2021 graduate student award winners:
Award | Recipient |
Daniel H. Mowrey Graduate Consulting Awards |
Yulin Liu Vinny Paris Amin Shirazi Miranda Tilberg |
Congratulations to the following statistics students on their scholarships and awards for the 2021-22 school year:
Scholarship | Recipient |
Snedecor Award |
Jake Alston Jessie Bustin |
The department is very pleased to offer our students financial support from the new Ronald J. and S. Dorè Mead Fund for Student Experience in Statistics.
On September 5th, Department Chair Dan Nettleton hosted a gathering at his house to welcome first-year Statistics graduate students for homemade ice cream.
Congratulations to Jiaming Qiu, Matt Stuart, and Yifan Zhu, winners of Research Excellence Awards this fall.
The department hosted a fall picnic with games and food for students, staff, and faculty. The picnic featured lawn games and boxed lunches in the Maple Shelter at Brookside Park.
The following awards were announced during the department’s welcome seminar on the first day of class (August 23). Pictured below are Charlie Labuzzetta (one of three winners of the Vince Sposito Computing Award) and Eryn Blagg (winner of the Vera David Award).
Sebastian McCrimmon is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Wayne A.
This semester, the Department is joined by one visiting scholar, Keila Gonzalez Gomez, and three postdoctoral researchers, Seonghun Cho, Yoon-Bae Jun and Stephanie Reinders.
Danica Ommen co-authored article on evaluating handwriting, featured in Journal of Forensic Sciences
Professor Danica Ommen co-authored article titled "Use of an Automated Sys
Meeker released the second edition of his
Professor Philip Dixon was appointed to
In July, Professor Xiongtao Dai received a grant award from
Kathy Kiesling began working as the administrative assistant for the Department of Statistics.
In summer 2021, Sarah Nusser retired after more than three decades at Iowa State. Following her obtainment of both bachelor's and master's degrees in botany from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and North Carolina State University, Sarah earned MS and Ph.D.