Professor Emerita Grace Wahba wins coveted International Prize in Statistics
The UW–Madison Department of Statistics is thrilled to celebrate Professor Emerita Grace Wahba, who has been awarded the 2025 International Prize in Statistics — one of the highest honors in the field — for her …
Department of Statistics celebrates spring 2025 graduates
Congratulations to all of the spring 2025 graduates of the Department of Statistics! The hundreds of new graduates from across academic programs in the Department of Statistics are poised for impactful careers harnessing statistics and …
Data Science major Trinity Krohn embraces entrepreneurship at UW–Madison
Born and raised in Green Bay, WI, Trinity Krohn BS’27 had initially ruled out coming to UW–Madison. “I always wanted to go south,” she said, and was heavily considering universities in Florida. With many of …
Statistics faculty and students among inaugural Open Award recipients
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Faculty Q&A: Ben Lengerich on the power of AI in medicine
AI is reshaping medicine, helping researchers and practitioners make better predictions, understand diseases in new ways, and personalize treatments. For instance, Google’s DeepMind won the 2024 Nobel Prize for creating AlphaFold, an AI system that …
Data science club hackathon enables hundreds of UW–Madison students to create and innovate together
‘On the cutting edge’: Statistical Consulting Group enhances diverse research projects across UW–Madison campus
Data is central to scientific research, especially as the digital revolution enables researchers from across fields to collect, analyze and distribute troves of data in ever-more sophisticated ways. Scholars in virtually every discipline, including those …