Published: Jun 19th, 2017
Congratulations to first year PhD biostatistics student, Tyler Grimes, as he has received a travel award from the International Society for Computational Biology, to attend the 25th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 16th European Conference on Computational Biology.
Published: May 10th, 2017
On April, 29, 2017, the department hosted its annual spring picnic. All department faculty, staff, students, visitors and their families were invited to attend. This year the picnic took place at Drs. Somnath and Susmita Datta’s home here in Gainesville, Florida.
Published: Apr 26th, 2017
Each year, the conference invites 6 plenary speakers to present their research on topics that are considered fundamentally important to applied statistical research and applications.
Published: Apr 21st, 2017
Congratulations to two University of Florida Department of Biostatistics faculty members, Sam Wu, Ph.D., and Yang Yang, Ph.D., who received UF Term Professorship Awards.
Published: Apr 21st, 2017
The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields.
Published: Apr 19th, 2017
The department hosted a successful workshop titled, Statistical Inference for Biomedical Big Data, on April 7th and 8th. The workshop brought together prominent statisticians to discuss and foster the cutting –edge developments of statistical theory, methods, and tools for biomedical big data analysis.
Published: Mar 10th, 2017
Dr. Susmita Datta, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, recently had her book, “Statistical Analysis of Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Lipidomics Data Using Mass Spectrometry”, published by Springer. This book presents an overview of computational and statistical design and analysis of mass spectrometry-based proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics data.
Published: Jan 3rd, 2017
Researchers at the University of Florida have played an integral role in the vaccine trial’s execution, finding that it is 100 percent effective at preventing Ebola when given 10 or more days prior to exposure to the deadly virus.
Published: Dec 7th, 2016
Please view our annual newsletter to learn about the many accomplishments and activities that took place in the department for the year 2016!
Published: Nov 30th, 2016
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July 21, 2017
Faculty Meeting
CTRB 5235; 9:30am- 11:00am
August 4, 2017
Doctoral Commencement Ceremony
Phillips Center 4:00pm
August 5, 2017
Master's, Specialist's, and Bachelor's Commencement Ceremony
Phillips Center 10:00am
August 18, 2017
Biostatistics New Student Orientation
CTRB 3161/3162 10:30am- 12:30pm
January 27, 2018
PHHP 60th Anniversary Gala
Ben Hill Griffin Touchdown Terrace
April 6, 2018
PHHP Research Day
May 17-20, 2018
IISA International Conference on Statistics