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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …