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News & Events

Catch up with our latest news, upcoming events, and faculty and student accomplishments.

Recent News

Congratulations to our new tenured faculty

Congratulations to our new tenured faculty Qian Qin, Associate Professor and Lu Yang, Associate Professor

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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!

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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

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MN Daily | UMN professors concerned about AI

UMN professors are quoted and mentioned in a MN Daily story.

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School of Statistics Representation at Goldy’s Run

School of Statistics was represented at this year’s Goldy’s Run, with some of our graduate students hitting the pavement to showcase their speed and endurance outside the…

Upcoming Events

In-Person

September 16, 2026

Medtronic Info Session at School of Statistics

Join the Institute for Research in Statistics and its Applications (IRSA) for an exclusive information session with Medtronic’s statistics team to explore cutting-edge data…

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In-Person

September 17, 2026

School of Statistics Kick Off

Connect with faculty and students to kick off the fall semester, and celebrate student awards.

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In-Person

September 23, 2026

Mengyang Gu, UC Santa Barbara

School of Statistics Seminar - Mengyang Gu, UC Santa Barbara GNet: A scalable and flexible Gaussian process network accelerated by the jointly inverse Kalman filter