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Each year, the Statistics Department’s Teaching Assistant (TA) Committee honors a select group of exceptional TAs for their outstanding contributions to the department and the university. These outstanding TAs exemplify commitment, excellence, and authentic enthusiasm for education. They serve as instructors, role models and mentors, all while pursuing their own rigorous graduate studies. Award recipients …

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 foundational contributions to smoothing splines, a method to draw smooth curves through messy data, and the transformative impact her ideas …

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 to benefit organizations and society. Below you’ll meet a few outstanding new graduates of our department, learn about …

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 her high school peers choosing Madison, she felt curious about exploring new environments and experiences. “But then I toured the …

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 advanced biomedical research and drug discovery by accurately predicting 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences, a previously slow and …

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 at UW–Madison, can now harness innovative statistics and data science approaches to answer questions like “Why do birds make so …