Statistics News
- May 15, 2024Statistics students and faculty can find Associate Chair Brett Hunter in his office with the door open most every day of the week, and this year, his dedication and many contributions to the department earned him the college’s Outstanding Service Award.
- April 28, 2024Cliff Sutton, who will retire this year, reflects on the past and shares his recollections.
- February 15, 2024A collaboration between George Mason University and the Inova Health System is yielding new approaches to determine the likelihood of organ rejection in young heart transplant recipients.
- February 8, 2024A professor wants those in the western Canadian province to participate in Mason's prediction competition.
- February 2, 2024William Rosenberger, distinguished university professor in Mason's Statistics Department, has been named the 41st Fisher Memorial Lecturer.
- December 4, 2023Amir Hasan received the 2023 DOIL Inclusive Excellence Trailblazer Award.
- December 1, 2023The Department of Statistics would like to take note of the following grants, to link to the Statistics Fall 2023 newsletter
- November 13, 2023The Department of Statistics Associate Chair of Research, John Stufken, comes to George Mason University with plenty of experience in statistics and directing programs. One of his main roles will be leveraging his knowledge and career to help newer statistics professors at Mason with their own career success.
- November 8, 2023With support from Mason's Department of Statistics, two high school students conducted statistical research and wrote an op-ed on lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic.
- October 5, 2023A postdoc program for health researchers interested in statistics and data science, run jointly by George Mason’s statistics and global and community health departments, with mentors from Mason and Inova Health, has developed from the ongoing partnership between Inova Health and George Mason’s Statistics Collaboration Core. Mohamad Bahij Moumneh, MD, and Jason F. Goldberg, MD, are the program’s standing inaugural members.
- September 25, 2023At the 2023 Joint Statistics Meeting, one of the largest statistics events in the world, George Mason’s statistics department teamed up with Georgetown’s data science department and George Washington’s statistics department to co-host the first Georges Reception. Students, alumni, faculty, and friends gathered to network with fellow DC area locals.
- September 21, 2023Professor of statistics Lily Wang is leading a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary team to find biomarkers for aging-related diseases from the latest biomedical imaging techniques. A program run by the NSF and NIH has awarded Wang’s team $1,199,772 for the study.