Biostatistics professor Dr. Samuel Wu is the first recipient of the Mark C. K. Yang Mentor Award. The award is presented to a faculty member of the Biostatistics or Statistics departments, alternating annually between these departments, in recognition of excellence as a mentor of graduate students and/or junior faculty…
Dr. Zhigang Li was recently appointed as the new Chair of the Awards Committee for the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA). Dr. Li’s tenure for this new appointment began on September 21, 2022. ICSA is a non-profit organization with over 1,000 active members operated for educational, charitable, and scientific…
Dr. Susmita Datta was invited by the Marshall University Mathematics Department to give a plenary presentation October 14 at the 4th International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (ICOSDA), held in Huntington, West Virginia. The title of Dr. Datta’s talk was “Statistical Analysis of single cell RNA sequencing…
The award supports the development of decision frameworks and novel statistical methods to resolve challenges faced by scientists when analyzing single cell data.
The team will leverage large information-rich databases to create new frameworks for data analysis.
She is one of two 2025 ASA presidential candidates on the ballot for an election next spring.
Currently, monkeypox’s reproductive number, or the average number of people infected by one individual, is slightly greater than 1. And while that contagion rate seems low compared to some recent COVID-19 variants, for example, the experts say it represents a higher probability of viral evolution.
Dr. Somnath Datta, professor, along with his colleagues Drs. Gaskins of University of Louisville, and Levy from University of Iowa, has been awarded a research grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is the overall Principal Investigator (P.I.) on the project entitled “Longitudinal Analysis of Iowa Fluoride Study…
Dr. Peihua Qiu, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics was recently elected as Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), for fundamental methodological research in quality control and management, for contribution in quality-related education, training, and consulting, and for service to the…
