Month: April 2026
An enduring impact: Alan Agresti receives 2026 Distinguished Achievement Award
Alan Agresti MS’70, PhD’72, distinguished professor emeritus of statistics at the University of Florida (UFL), has spent his career proving that data holds the key to some of the most compelling questions of our time, …
Data and democracy: Hermann Habermann receives CDIS Distinguished Achievement Award
Over the course of his influential career, Hermann Habermann MS’70, PhD’75 has shaped how governments around the world understand their data, their people, and their economies. As former chief statistician of the United States and …
Innovation through partnership: José Ramírez receives CDIS Distinguished Achievement Award
José Ramírez MS’85, PhD’89 has built a career helping people make sense of data, whether to improve semiconductor manufacturing or advance T-cell therapies that attack cancer. That applied impact, rooted in a collaborative philosophy he traces back to UW–Madison, makes …
Tracing life’s hidden histories
Claudia Solis-Lemus PhD’15 and her lab bring statistical rigor to far-reaching biological questions. By Thomas Jilk When Claudia Solís-Lemus PhD’15 began her Statistics graduate program, she was leaning toward focusing on financial statistics. Then she attended a guest lecture from Professor and current Statistics Chair Bret Larget, showing how probability …