News & Events News & Events Catch up with our latest news, upcoming events, and faculty and student accomplishments. On This Page: Recent News Kicking Off Compass 2030 Welcome to the start of the 2026-27 academic year, CLA community members! Minnesota Star Tribune | Galin Jones on human aspect of AI hyperscaling Jones was interviewed for a column on the AI arms race that has AI companies considering putting on the brakes. Congratulations to our new tenured faculty Congratulations to our new tenured faculty Qian Qin, Associate Professor and Lu Yang, Associate Professor Celebrating Our Students: The Future of Statistics As another academic year comes to a close, we want to extend our congratulations to all of our graduating undergraduate students! Teaching New Tricks: How Scout the AI Dog is Advancing Research at the School of Statistics University of Minnesota’s School of Statistics, the future of AI is taking four-legged strides into the real world Upcoming Events In-Person Event, October 14, 2026 Seminar- Ted Westling, University of Massachusetts Amherst Seminar- Ted Westling, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Consistency of the bootstrap for asymptotically linear estimators with nuisance parameters In-Person Event, October 19, 2026 Geisser Lecture We are delighted to welcome Dr. Murali Haran from Penn State University for our annual Geisser Lecture. In-Person Event, October 24, 2026 IRSA K-12 Data Science Education Series: Scratch Programming Camp Build core problem-solving and algorithmic thinking skills that serve as the building blocks for modern Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
Minnesota Star Tribune | Galin Jones on human aspect of AI hyperscaling Jones was interviewed for a column on the AI arms race that has AI companies considering putting on the brakes.
Congratulations to our new tenured faculty Congratulations to our new tenured faculty Qian Qin, Associate Professor and Lu Yang, Associate Professor
Celebrating Our Students: The Future of Statistics As another academic year comes to a close, we want to extend our congratulations to all of our graduating undergraduate students!
Teaching New Tricks: How Scout the AI Dog is Advancing Research at the School of Statistics University of Minnesota’s School of Statistics, the future of AI is taking four-legged strides into the real world
In-Person Event, October 14, 2026 Seminar- Ted Westling, University of Massachusetts Amherst Seminar- Ted Westling, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Consistency of the bootstrap for asymptotically linear estimators with nuisance parameters
In-Person Event, October 19, 2026 Geisser Lecture We are delighted to welcome Dr. Murali Haran from Penn State University for our annual Geisser Lecture.
In-Person Event, October 24, 2026 IRSA K-12 Data Science Education Series: Scratch Programming Camp Build core problem-solving and algorithmic thinking skills that serve as the building blocks for modern Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
