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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 …

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 …

Statistics major Yalei Zhao wins prestigious undergraduate thesis award

Yalei Zhao x’25, a Statistics and Mathematics double major at UW–Madison, was recently honored with the Trewartha Senior Honors Thesis Research Award from the College of Letters & Science (L&S). The grant recognizes outstanding undergraduate …

Statistics researchers thrive in pioneering semester-long research program on statistical genomics

This past fall, faculty and graduate students from the Department of Statistics, and other units at UW–Madison, participated in an intensive semester-long research program hosted by the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics …