News

  • 05/10/2013

    Professor Elly Kaizar recently presented at the Observational Studies in a Learning Health System meeting held at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.


  • 05/10/2013

    Faculty members Bill Notz and Kate Calder and PhD alumni Candace Berrett and Yufeng Liu elected to leadership positions in the American Statistical Association.


  • 04/30/2013

    Kate Calder has been selected as one of ASA's Section on Statistics in the Environment (ENVR) Young Investigator Award recipients for 2013.


  • 04/18/2013

    Brian Smith nominated for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award.


  • 04/08/2013

    Please join us in celebrating this year's winners of the 2013 Ransom and Marian Whitney Award for Research: Aritra Sengupta and Srinath Sampath.


  • 04/01/2013

    Congratulations to Katie Thompson who has been named an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Associate by The Ohio State University.


  • 01/22/2013

    Srinath Sampath has been selected as one of the six finalists for the ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Award. Srinath will present his paper joint with Joe Verducci, at the Joint Statistical Association Meetings in Montreal this summer.


  • 01/05/2013

    Mark Berliner has been elected Vice Chair of the Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification of The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).


  • 12/21/2012

    The Statistics Education Special Interest Group of the MAA has chosen Dr. Jackie Miller to be the first recipient of the Robert V. Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics. 


  • 10/22/2012

    Ph.D. student Erin Leatherman won the best poster award at the Design and Analysis of Experiments Conference 2012


  • 10/15/2012
  • 09/10/2012

    Congratulations to newly promoted and tenured Associate Professors Elly Kaizar, Xinyi Xu, and Desheng Liu.


  • 09/04/2012

    The Department of Statistics sadly announces that Emeritus Professor Ramesh Srivastava passed away on Thursday, August 30, 2012.  You may open this link to see information provided by the Srivastava family.


  • 07/17/2012

    Professor Steve MacEachern is the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings Program Chair.


  • 07/17/2012

    The Department will be represented at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego this summer by 24 of our graduate students. A listing of JSM 2012 Student Presentations is now available.


  • 06/13/2012

    The JSM Ohio State University Department of Statistics Alumni and Friends Breakfast will take place on Tuesday,  July 31 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM in room: Sapphire 402, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, One Park Boulevard.


  • 05/10/2012

    Professor Elizabeth Stasny to deliver a plenary discussion on non-probability sampling in social research at the AAPOR Annual Conference.


  • 05/09/2012

    SCS Director Chris Holloman was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistical Consulting.


  • 04/25/2012

    Vince Vu (new faculty member starting in autumn 2012) won the AISTATS 2012 best paper award.


  • 04/16/2012

    Information on the OSU/CWRU/Cleveland Clinic Biostatistics Joint Symposium, to be held on May 17, 2012 in Jennings Hall, is available online.


  • 04/13/2012

    PhD student Helen Fan is featured in the latest issue of the Office of International Affairs' Global Perspectives newsletter.


  • 04/13/2012

    Professor Bill Notz delivered the W. J. Youden Memorial Address at the 55th Annual Fall Technical Conference in Kansas City, KS in October 2011.


  • 03/28/2012

    Ph.D. student Helen Fan and Professor Laura Kubatko's paper "Estimating species trees using approximate Bayesian computation" is on SciVerse ScienceDirect's list of the TOP25 Hottest Articles in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.


  • 03/01/2012

    Mark Berliner, Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics, has been selected to speak in MIT's Distinguished Speaker Series.


  • 02/08/2012

    Professor Noel Cressie (with co-author, Chris Wikle) has won the PROSE Award for Excellence in the Mathematics Category from the Association of American Publishers for their 2011 Wiley book, “Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data."


  • 01/11/2012

    The Statistical Consulting Service is featured in the January 4th edition of onCampus magazine!  Also, SCS recently produced a video highlighting their services to the OSU community and beyond.


  • 12/21/2011

    Volume 19 of our Department Newsletter is now available online.


  • 11/28/2011

    Congratulations to Kate Calder, who was elected to the Board of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA.)  In addition, Steve MacEachern was elected to Chair of the Bayesian Nonparametrics Section!


  • 10/28/2011
    The Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Biostatistics has a new website. It contains information about the program, including details on the two specializations and information for current and prospective students.

  • 09/06/2011

    Congratulations to Dr. Peter Craigmile who has been selected for the 2011 El-Shaarawi Young Researcher's Award given by the International Environmetrics Society. This award is in recognition of having made outstanding contributions to the field of environmetrics.


  • 08/01/2011

    Read about Peter Craigmile's visit to DC on behalf of the ASA in AMSTAT News!


  • 08/01/2011

    Information on all of our 2011 JSM Student Presentations can be found here.


  • 07/29/2011

    Research by recent graduate Dr. Matthias Katzfuss (PhD. '11) and Dr. Noel Cressie was recently highlighted on the NASA JPL Website.


  • 04/28/2011

    The Nationwide Center for Advanced Customer Insights (NCACI) has been selected as the recipient of this year's prestigious 2011 SPAIG (Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government) award from the American Statistical Association!


  • 04/25/2011

    Dr. Noel Cressie has been appointed by the Director of the U. S. Census Bureau, Dr. Robert Groves, to serve on the Census Bureau Scientific Advisory Committee for the period 2011-2014.


  • 03/31/2011

    Congratulations to Matthias Katzfuss and Jenný Brynjarsdóttir, our 2011 Whitney Research Award winners.


  • 03/24/2011

    Dr. Elizabeth Stasny, Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies, was appointed by US Attorney General Eric Holder to serve on the newly created Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board.


  • 03/24/2011

    The National Research Council has recently rated the OSU Department of Statistics #10 amongst all public institutions with a graduate program in Statistics and #18 among all statistics graduate programs.  (more info)


  • 08/05/2010

    Michael Browne, professor of psychology and statistics, was presented with the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his career contribution to psychometrics at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society.


  • 07/02/2010

    The JSM 2010 Ohio State University Department of Statistics Alumni and Friends Breakfast,  occurred on Tuesday, 8/3/2010 from 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM in the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel Terrace Room.


  • 06/29/2010
    Congratulations to Paul Brower who recieved the 2010 University Distiguished Staff Award.
  • 06/08/2010
    Current Topics in the Theory and Application of Latent Variable Models, a conference honoring the scientific contributions of Michael W. Browne, will be held September 9-10, 2010, at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.
  • 06/07/2010
    Ninth International Conference on Ordered Statistical Data and Their Applicatons will be held in Zagazig, Egypt, July 11-13, 2010 (organized by Department of Mathematics, Zagazig University, EGYPT, and Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University).
  • 05/28/2010
    Congratulations to Dr. Angela Dean on her selection as Chair-Elect of the ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences!
  • 05/03/2010
    Congratulations to Dr. Ömer Özturk on his selection as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association!
  • 04/30/2010
    The Conference on Nonparametric Statistics and Statistical Learning is to be held on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, OH, May 19-22 in 2010.
  • 04/29/2010
    Ohio State - Cleveland Clinic - Case Western Reserve: Biostatistics Joint Symposium will be held on the Ohio State University campus on Thursday, May 13, 2010. Betz Halloran from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at University of Washington is the keynote speaker.
  • 04/27/2010
    2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining will be held at Renaissance Hotel in downtown of Columbus, April 29 through May 1 in 2010.
  • 03/19/2010
    Professor Shili Lin has been elected as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  • 03/19/2010
    Kythrie Silva has been selected to receive one of this year's BMPS Staff Awards for Excellence.
  • 03/19/2010
    Twenty graduate students from our department have presented their research projects in the Joint Statistical Meetings at Washington D.C. in August 2009.