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Department featured in new video at 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings

The Department of Statistics was featured in a new video at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), the largest gathering of statisticians and data scientists in North America. In the video, you’ll hear from: Statistics …

Morgridge Hall Progress Update — July 2025

Department of Statistics honors outstanding teaching assistants for 2024-2025 academic year

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 …

Kris Sankaran receives L&S Distinguished Honors Faculty Award

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

Morgridge Hall Progress Update: March 2025

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 …