Professor and Dept. Head Ming-Hui Chen has been selected as a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Congratulations Professor Ming! Read more about this story here, https://today.uconn.edu/2021/04/five-uconn-faculty-honored-as-board-of-trustees-distinguished-professors/
Awards
Stat Undergrads Selected UConn McNair Fellows for 2021
Congratulations to Stat undergrads Christine Nguyen and Uyen Le who have been selected to be UConn McNair Fellows for the fall 2021 semester! Find out more about the McNair Fellowship.
– Irene Soteriou, ’23 (CLAS), a cognitive science and statistics double major at the University of Connecticut, has been honored with The Newman Civic Fellows Award
– Prof. Dipak Dey is a newly elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
– Asst. Prof. Yuwen Gu selected as one of the first recipients of the Makuch Awards in Mathematics and Data Science.
Two CLAS Faculty Receive First Makuch Awards in Mathematics and Data Science
– Assoc. Prof. Yuping Zhang has been awarded Scholarship Facilitation Funding (SFF).
Associate Professor Yuping Zhang’s project entitled A new graph-based clustering method with application to single-cell RNA-seq data from human pancreatic islets has been selected for funding from UConn/UConn Health Scholarship Facilitation Fund (SFF) for Spring 2021.
– PhD students Katherine Zavez, Prince Allotey, Math-Stat student Rujue Du and Yulia Sidi, ’20 PhD have won the 2020 ASA Leadership Challenge.
We very pleased to inform you that PhD students Katherine Zavez, Prince Allotey, Math-Stat student Rujue Du and Yulia Sidi, ’20 PhD have won the 2020 ASA Leadership Challenge. Congratulations!
-Katherine Zavez has won the APHA’s Applied Public Health Statistics section 2020 student research paper competition.
Ph.D. student Katherine Zavez presenting her paper “Imputing racial and ethnic information in health claim databases” won this year APHA’s Applied Public Health Statistics section 2020 student research paper competition (October 2020).
Prof. Kun Chen and Colleagues Awarded NIH R01 Grant
Project title: Developing Suicide Risk Algorithms for Diverse Clinical Settings using Data Fusion.