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2014

$1.5 Million Grant Helps Sophomores Make Sense of Big Data
(12/05/2014)

Nagaraj and Pasupathy win 2nd place in the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper competition
(11/07/2014)

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science Program Honor Outstanding Alumnae: Anita Jain Singh and Anne Jackson
(10/13/2014)

Whitney Huang Receives Award
(09/24/2014)

Jennifer Neville as Dawn or Doom Speaker
(09/18/2014)

Breakthrough: Local and Global Asymptotic Inference in Smoothing Spline Models
(09/04/2014)

Year in Review
(09/01/2014)

Purdue Statistics Ranked second in number of undergraduate degrees granted in the U.S.
(09/01/2014)

Please welcome our new members of Purdue Statistics!
(08/25/2014)

Purdue Statistics students, Harry and Troisi, publish "Service-Oriented Statistics" in August 2014 AMSTAT News
(08/21/2014)

Congratulations August 2014 Graduates
(08/19/2014)

Purdue Statistics is Data Science
(08/01/2014)

Purdue Statistics Alumni Reception planned for Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 at JSM in Boston
(07/16/2014)

Roland Thorpe Appointed to Federal Advisory Committee on Minority Health
(07/14/2014)

Congratulations May 2014 Graduates
(06/11/2014)

Congratulations 2014 Spring Award Winners!
(04/19/2014)

Associate Professor Guang Cheng receives a Simons Foundation Fellowship
(04/16/2014)

Rodenberg and Beiderman Named Distinguished Science Alumni for 2014
(04/15/2014)

Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture
(04/08/2014)

Emeritus Professor Louis J. Cote
(03/18/2014)

Members of Statistics Department honored with College of Science Faculty and Staff Awards
(03/14/2014)

Dr. Vinayak Rao Wins the International Society of Bayesian Analysis Savage Award
(02/25/2014)

Be sure not to miss the Purdue University Friends and Alumni Reception
(02/25/2014)

Purdue Statistics members part of team to identify gene that eases the genetic modification of plants
(02/18/2014)

Ward appointed Managing Editor of mathematics journal
(02/15/2014)

Professor Jayanta Ghosh honored with the Padma Shri Award
(02/03/2014)

A Career in Statistics: Opportunities, Duties, and Salaries
(01/27/2014)

Welcome Visitors
(01/01/2014)

2013

Congratulations December 2013 Graduates!
(12/20/2013)

Ward and Gundlach Collaborate on New Probability Textbook
(12/06/2013)

Purdue Statistics Ranked Number One in U.S. Conferring Bachelor's Degrees in Statistics in 2012
(11/01/2013)

Kyle Bemis Wins First Place in AISES Conference Poster Competition
(11/01/2013)

Navarro Selected to Inaugural Class of Purdue Global Ambassadors
(10/31/2013)

So You Want to Be a Statistician in Business.
(09/16/2013)

Purdue Press Release Highlights NSF Grant for Statistics Living-Learning Community
(09/11/2013)

Purdue to Host 1st Annual Midwest Actuarial Student Conference
(09/02/2013)

Please welcome visitors Dr. Munni Begum, Mr. James Miles, Dr. Zuofeng Shang, Dr. Walid Sharabati, and Dr. Jongwoo Song to Purdue Statistics
(08/27/2013)

Viens to Present College of Science Research Award Lecture
(08/15/2013)

Purdue Puts Spotlight on High-Frequency Data Analysis in Finance, Across the Hudson River From Wall Street
(08/15/2013)

North American School of Information Theory Coming to Purdue Summer 2013
(05/14/2013)

Congratulations May 2013 Graduates!
(05/13/2013)

Congratulations 2012-2013 Award Winners!
(05/02/2013)

Olga Vitek and Guang Cheng Receive Awards
(04/29/2013)

New York Times Story Highlights "Hot New Field" of Data Sciences
(04/17/2013)

Wolak and Woolford Named Distinguished Science Alumni for 2013
(04/16/2013)

Emeritus Professor William J. Studden: 1935-2013
(04/11/2013)

Zhang Elected to ISI
(04/08/2013)

Members of Statistics Department Recognized at College of Science Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon
(03/05/2013)

Dr. Roland Thorpe Visits Campus
(02/18/2013)

Gundlach Discusses Students' Information Literacy and STAT113
(01/28/2013)

Ghosh Awarded Honorary D.Sc. Degree
(01/23/2013)

Statistics Students Featured in Insights Article About Diversity
(01/08/2013)

2012

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2010

Colver and Deely featured in College of Science's "5 Alumni Who..."
(12/01/2010)

Alan Qi receives CAREER award
(11/30/2010)

Craig, McCabe, and Zhang recognized at Excellence in Research Awards Dinner
(11/23/2010)

Purdue Today Profiles Mary Ellen Bock's Work with ADVANCE-Purdue
(10/21/2010)

Local Event Planned for World Statistics Day
(10/19/2010)

World Statistics Day to be Observed October 20, 2010
(10/12/2010)

Nancy Balser and Mary Roe Receive Thumbs Up
(10/12/2010)

Congratulations August 2010 Graduates!
(10/12/2010)

Eric Krafcheck awarded John Culver Wooddy scholarship
(10/05/2010)

Mark Daniel Ward - Analysis of algorithms on strings and trees
(09/08/2010)

Welcome New Faculty, Staff, Visitors, and Students
(09/06/2010)

A new textbook written by Liang, Liu, and Carroll
(08/24/2010)

Mary Ellen Bock Receives NISS Distinguished Service Award for 2010
(08/11/2010)

Ellen Gundlach wins the 2010 Grand Prize ASA Hands-On Statistics Activity Competition
(08/10/2010)

Department of Statistics to Host Purdue University Friends and Alumni Reception
(06/08/2010)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funds Purdue Team to Enrich Undergraduate Education
(06/01/2010)

Congratulations May 2010 Graduates!
(05/24/2010)

Ward Awarded Purdue's Teaching for Tomorrow Award
(05/19/2010)

Ward Resolves One Of Herbert Wilf's Unsolved Problems
(05/14/2010)

Rebecca Doerge new head of Department of Statistics effective July 1, 2010
(05/06/2010)

Congratulations 2009-2010 Award Winners!
(04/27/2010)

Sahlin wins 2010 Actuarial Scholarship
(04/16/2010)

Rau awarded WISP Travel Grant
(04/14/2010)

Dr. Susan Murphy Presents the 2010 K.C.S. Pillai Memorial Lecture
(04/14/2010)

Shugart and Himmelberger Named 2010 College of Science Distinguished Alumni
(04/14/2010)

Dr. Ker-Chau Li to Present the 2010 Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture
(04/01/2010)

Newton Presents "Gamma-based clustering via ordered means with application to gene expression analysis"
(03/15/2010)

Bock Elected Member-at-Large of Mathematics Section of AAAS
(03/11/2010)

Congratulations to the Statistics and Actuarial Science Students Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
(03/08/2010)

Doerge Selected for Provost's Award for Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor
(03/08/2010)

Cheryl Crabill Receives a Thumbs Up
(03/08/2010)

Achberger and Baumann Receive TLT's Distance Education Incentive Award
(03/08/2010)

Denise Bradford Featured in 5 Students who are Inspired by Purdue Women
(03/02/2010)

Purdue awarded $25 million for state's first NSF Science and Technology Center
(02/24/2010)

Li Elected to ISI
(02/08/2010)

Welcome New Faculty and Students
(01/13/2010)

2009

Congratulations December 2009 Graduates!
(12/18/2009)

Gundlach Appointed Associate Editor of CAUSE and MERLOT
(12/02/2009)

Nychka Presents "Climate Past, Present and Future"
(10/20/2009)

Stochastic Analysis at Purdue 2009 Workshop
(09/29/2009)

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science Program Honor Outstanding Alumni
(09/17/2009)

Zhang Elected to ISI
(09/15/2009)

Doerge Selected as CIC-ALP Fellow
(09/14/2009)

Department of Statistics Establishes Norma Lucas Administrative Professional Excellence Award
(09/11/2009)

DasGupta to Author Two-Volume Book
(09/09/2009)

Beckley Elected to Society of Actuaries Board of Directors
(09/08/2009)

Bremer and Doerge Author Statistics at the Bench: A Step-by-Step Handbook for Biologists
(09/01/2009)

Rau Receives Honorable Mention for Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship
(08/25/2009)

Welcome New Faculty, Visitors, and Students
(08/14/2009)

Congratulations August 2009 Graduates!
(08/14/2009)

Norma Lucas Retires after 39 Years with the Department of Statistics
(08/03/2009)

Alumni and Friends Gather at Joint Statistical Meetings
(08/02/2009)

Welcome Lingsong Zhang
(07/16/2009)

Levine and Zhang Earn Promotions in 2009
(07/15/2009)

Dabao Zhang Granted CAREER Award
(06/16/2009)

Jeffrey Roberts Named Dean of the College of Science
(06/02/2009)

Congratulations May 2009 Graduates!
(05/15/2009)

George P. McCabe Doubly Honored
(05/07/2009)

Congratulations 2009 Actuarial Science Award Winners!
(05/04/2009)

StatCom P-12 Outreach Team Participates in Spring Fest 2009
(04/29/2009)

Srinivasa Varadhan Presents 2009 Prem S. Puri Memorial Lecture
(04/21/2009)

Congratulations 2008-2009 Award Winners!
(04/15/2009)

New Center for Research on Foundations of Statistical Inference
(04/08/2009)

Ryan Martin Wins SBSS Paper Competition
(04/07/2009)

Department of Statistics Hosts Stat Day
(04/02/2009)

STAT DAY 2009
(04/02/2009)

Fall 2009 Honors Course Taught by Professor Ward Featured in Exponent Article
(04/01/2009)

Four Statistics Graduate Students Earn Graduate Teacher Certificates
(04/01/2009)

William Stout Named 2009 College of Science Distinguished Alumnus
(04/01/2009)

Welcome Choon Hui Teo
(03/11/2009)

Dr. Hongzhe Li Presents 2009 Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture
(03/11/2009)

McCabe Travels to Taiwan to Celebrate Historic Collaborations
(02/23/2009)

Statistics Members Recognized at College of Science Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon
(02/11/2009)

Welcome Xinhua Zhang
(02/04/2009)

Welcome Jin Yu
(02/04/2009)

Gundlach Receives IDC Distance Education Incentive Award
(02/03/2009)

2009 GSO Spring Speaker: Professor John Storey
(01/28/2009)

Welcome New Faculty and Students
(01/05/2009)

2008

Congratulations December 2008 Graduates!
(12/19/2008)

Welcome Jun Hui
(10/09/2008)

Gundlach Inducted into Purdue's Teaching Academy
(10/07/2008)

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science Program Honor Outstanding Alumni
(09/08/2008)

Ruberg Appointed to AHIC Successor, Inc. Board of Directors
(09/03/2008)

Welcome New Faculty, Visitors, and Students
(08/15/2008)

Congratulations August 2008 Graduates!
(08/15/2008)

Andrea Rau and Doug Baumann Appointed Members of ASA Committee on Student Pro Bono Statistics
(08/12/2008)

Alumni and Friends Gather at Joint Statistical Meetings
(08/03/2008)

Viens Earns Promotion in 2008
(07/16/2008)

Doerge Appointed Interim Head for 2008 - 2009
(07/04/2008)

2007-2008 Department of Statistics Graduates
(07/02/2008)

STATCOM Network Newsletter Highlights Student Pro Bono Community Work
(07/01/2008)

Professor Rebecca W. Doerge part of $50 million iPlant initiative
(06/18/2008)

Neville in AI's 10 to Watch
(06/11/2008)

Si Granted CAREER Award
(06/03/2008)

New Feature: Student Profiles
(06/03/2008)

Dr. Olga Troyanskaya Presents 2008 Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture
(05/21/2008)

Das Gupta Serves as Editor of LNMS and IMS Collections
(05/21/2008)

Lebanon Granted CAREER Award
(05/08/2008)

Welcome New Faculty and Students
(05/07/2008)

Congratulations May 2008 Graduates!
(05/07/2008)

Qi Receives Microsoft Research Award
(04/29/2008)

Congratulations 2007-2008 Award Winners!
(04/18/2008)

Two Statistics Graduates Named College of Science Distinguished Alumnus
(04/09/2008)

Persi Diaconis Lectures Celebrated Department's 40th Anniversary
(03/24/2008)

Bock Selected to Serve on NISS Board of Trustees
(03/14/2008)

Vitek Awarded Purdue's Teaching for Tomorrow Award
(03/06/2008)

2008 GSO Spring Speaker: Professor James O. Berger
(02/22/2008)

Statistics Members Recognized at College of Science Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon
(02/05/2008)

Success of STATCOM Leads to Expanded Pro Bono Network
(01/09/2008)

2007

Bob and Marjorie McLean Endow Scholarship for Statistics Graduate Students
(11/09/2007)

Professor Rebecca W. Doerge Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(11/01/2007)

2007 K. C. S. Pillai Memorial Lecture: Principal Stratification for Causal Inference with Extended Partial Compliance
(10/01/2007)

Theresa (Tracy) Choka Receives Actuarial Science Outstanding Alumni Award
(10/01/2007)

Department of Statistics Honors Three Outstanding Alumni
(09/01/2007)

Alumnus Jim Tomkins Appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Regina
(08/15/2007)

Welcome New Faculty and Students
(08/15/2007)

Congratulations August 2007 Graduates!
(08/15/2007)

Surya Tokdar Awarded Leonard J. Savage Award
(08/09/2007)

Alumnus Gary McDonald Receives ASA Founders Award
(08/01/2007)

Kyle Bauer Awarded John Culver Wooddy Scholarship
(08/01/2007)

Gayla Olbricht Awarded WISP Travel Grant
(08/01/2007)

Alumni and Friends Gather at Joint Statistical Meetings
(07/27/2007)

Craig, Jin, and Xie Earn Promotions in 2007
(07/11/2007)

Deely Honored at Conference
(07/01/2007)

STATCOM P-12 Outreach Demonstrated Math and Statistics Concepts to Third Graders
(06/13/2007)

Surya Tokdar Awarded Leonard J. Savage Award
(05/09/2007)

New Feature: Research Profiles
(05/09/2007)

Congratulations May 2007 Graduates!
(05/01/2007)

Lebanon Awarded Purdue's Teaching for Tomorrow Award
(05/01/2007)

Deely, Doerge, and Liu Named ASA Fellows
(05/01/2007)

STATCOM P-12 Outreach Team Participates in Spring Fest 2007
(04/27/2007)

Congratulations 2006-2007 Award Winners!
(04/23/2007)

Mortar Board Recognizes Statistics Students and Staff Member
(04/14/2007)

2007 Prem S. Puri Memorial Lecture
(04/05/2007)

Wen-Jang Huang Named College of Science Distinguished Alumnus
(04/02/2007)

Department of Statistics Honors Outstanding Alumni from Statistics and Actuarial Science
(03/14/2007)

Analysis of Epigenetic Changes May Lead to Potential Biomarker for Cancer
(03/01/2007)

David and Nancy Moore Receive Dean's Ovation Award
(02/14/2007)

2007 GSO Spring Speaker: Professor Rene Carmona
(02/09/2007)

2007 Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture: Statistical Challenges in Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Proteomic Data
(02/01/2007)

Jiashun Jin Granted CAREER Award
(02/01/2007)

Statistics Members Recognized at College of Science Faculty and Staff Recognition Luncheon
(02/01/2007)

Alexander Gluhovsky Associate Professor Appointment
(02/01/2007)

Congratulations December 2007 Graduates!
(01/10/2007)

Welcome New Faculty and Students
(01/08/2007)

Purdue Department of Statistics announces Moore scholarship winners
(01/08/2007)

Feed the World
(01/01/2007)

Purdue Actuarial Science Program Publishes Risky Business
(01/01/2007)

2006

Congratulations December 2006 Graduates!
(12/15/2006)

Trading Technologies Increases Options for Computational Finance Students
(11/11/2006)

Purdue Statistics Department Announces New Scholarship
(10/11/2006)

STATCOM Presents
(10/10/2006)

2006 K. C. S. Pillai Memorial Lecture: Statistical models for spatial processes on a global scale
(09/21/2006)

Department Finds Breathing Room at HAAS
(09/15/2006)

Welcome New Faculty, Visitors, and Students
(08/15/2006)

STATCOM Chairs Open Meeting on Pro Bono Statistics at JSM 2006
(08/15/2006)

2006 Alumni Reception During Joint Statistical Meetings
(08/06/2006)

Mary Ellen Bock Honored as Woman Pioneer at Purdue University
(08/04/2006)

Science mourns loss of Dean's Leadership Council member
(07/14/2006)

2006 Department of Statistics Graduates
(07/05/2006)

2005-2006 Department of Statistics Graduates
(07/05/2006)

Professors Simonsen and Zhu Earn Promotions in 2006
(07/01/2006)

Congratulations May 2006 Graduates!
(05/14/2006)

STATCOM P-12 Outreach Team Participates in Spring Fest 2006
(04/28/2006)

Congratulations Statistics 2005-2006 Award Winners!
(04/21/2006)

Diane K. Fasel: 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient
(04/19/2006)

2006 Myra Samuels Memorial Lecture: Whole Genome Optical Mapping
(04/13/2006)

Mary Ellen Bock Named for Violet Haas Award
(04/10/2006)

Outstanding Science Students of 2006
(03/22/2006)

New Feature: Alumni Profiles
(03/01/2006)

GSO Spring Speaker: Professor Bradley Efron
(03/01/2006)

STATCOM Featured in Amstat News
(02/08/2006)

Purdue Statistics Alumnus Honored for Research
(01/05/2006)

Announcing the William J. Studden Publication Award
(01/03/2006)

Welcome New Faculty and Students
(01/03/2006)

2005

2004

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