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Now Hiring: Part-Time Teaching Specialists and Lecturers

We invite applications for multiple temporary, part-time teaching specialists and lecturers to begin spring semester 2022.

Alumna Dootika Vats Wins 2021 Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award

Alumna Dootika Vats was recognized as a 2021 Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award recipient by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

2021 Youden Prize: Best Expository Paper in Technometrics

UMN Statisticians Awarded 2021 Youden Prize

Statistics alumni Daniel J. Eck, Christopher J. Nachtsheim, and Thomas A. Albrecht, and professor emeritus R. Dennis Cook have been awarded the 2021 Youden Prize for the best…

We Are Hiring

We invite applications for multiple full-time, tenure-track positions at the rank of assistant professor in the area of statistics and data science, to begin fall semester…

Dr. Galin Jones announced as Co-Editor of JCGS

School of Statistics Faculty Member Dr. Galin Jones recently announced as co-editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS).

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December 02, 2021

Seminar by Bingxin Zhao, Purdue University

Bingxin Zhao, Purdue University, will present "Biobank-scale Multi-organ Imaging Genetics: Clinical and Statistical Advances."