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News and Announcements |
| Date | News |
| January 2013 | Congratulations to PhD student Xinxin Shu, Student Paper Competition Winner for the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Xinxin was advised by Professor Annie Qu. |
| January 2013 | Congratulations to PhD student Nathaniel Helwig, Student Paper Competition Winner for the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Nathaniel was advised by Professor Ping Ma. |
| January 2013 | Congratulations to PhD student Subhadeep Paul, Student Paper Competition Winner for the International Indian Statistical Association. Subhadeep was advised by Professor Feng Liang. |
| August 2012 | Xianyang Zhang wins ASA Section on Nonparametric Statistics Student Presentation Award. Xianyang was advised by Xiaofeng Shao. |
| May 2012 | Chistopher Kinson one of 33 UIUC students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. |
| March 2012 | Ping Ma selected for 2011 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award. |
| February 2012 | PhD Alum Huixia (Judy) Wang selected for 2011 Tweedie New Researcher Award. |
| February 2012 | Sheng Zhong selected for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. |
| January 2012 | Congratulations to PhD student Jingfei Zhang, Student Paper Competition Winner for the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Jingfei is advised by Professor Yuguo Chen. |
| January 2012 | Welcome new faculty member Steven Culpepper, Assistant Professor of Statistics. |
| September 2011 | PhD Alum and long-time faculty member Xuming He appointed H.C. Carver Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan. |
| August 2011 | PhD Alum and Statistics Affiliate Hua-Hua Chang elected President of the Psychometric Society for 2012-2013. |
| August 2011 | UIUC PhD Student Peng Wang, advised by Annie Qu, receives Laha Travel Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting. |
| August 2011 | UIUC PhD Student Yunwen Yang, advised by Xuming He, receives Laha Travel Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting. |
| May 2011 | PhD Alum Min-ge Xie elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. |
| April 2011 | UIUC PhD Student Xianyang Zhang, advised by Xiaofeng Shao, wins Best Student Poster Award at the 2011 IISA Conference on Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis. |
| February 2011 | PhD Alum Ying Wei receives the 2011 Noether Young Scholar Award for outstanding early career contributions to Nonparametric Statistics |
| January 2011 | Ping Ma receives NSF CAREER Award: "Subsampling methods in Statistical Modeling of Ultra-Large Sample Geophysics" |
| August 2010 | Xuming He is named Theory and Methods Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association |
| August 2010 | Xuming He is Program Chair for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings |
| May 2010 | Annie Qu elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association |
| May 2010 | Adam Martinsek elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association |
| March 2010 | Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Statistics! The 2010 UIUC Statistics Sympoisum was held March 29-30, 2010. |
| March 2010 | Roger Koenker awarded the 2010 Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation |
| February 2010 | From The Economist: "Data, data everywhere" |
| November 2009 | Ping Ma featured in Purdue University Alumni Profile |
| August 2009 | From The New York Times: "For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics" |
| August 2009 | Ya-Hui Hsu receives 2009 JSM Student Paper Award from the Section on Nonparametric Statistics |
| August 2009 | Jeffrey Douglas promoted to Full Professor |
| April 2009 | William Stout received the 2009 Purdue College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award |
| December 2008 | Xuming He elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| October 2008 | UIUC hosts "Second Annual Midwest Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics". Speakers include Terry Speed, Peter Bickel, John Storey and Chung-I Wu. |
| August 2008 | Yuguo Chen promoted to Associate Professor |
| August 2008 | Annie Qu joins the Department of Statistics as Associate Professor |
| August 2008 | Roger Koenker elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association |
| August 2008 | Roger Koenker elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| May 2008 | Congratulations 2007-2008 Graduates! |
| April 2008 | PhD candidate Guixian Lin selected as a SAS Statistical Summer Fellow for 2008. |
| March 2008 | Ping Ma selected as a Beckman Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study for 2008-2009. |
| August 2007 | Wenxuan Zhong joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor |
| August 2007 | Xuming He delivers Medallion Lecture at the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings |
| May 2007 | Congratulations 2006-2007 Graduates! |
| May 2007 | Ping Ma's research featured in Science Daily, PhysOrg.Com and United Press International |
| August 2006 | Xiaofeng Shao joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor |
| July 2006 | Feng Liang joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor |
| July 2006 | In Memoriam Walter Philipp passed away July 19, 2006 while hiking in the Alps. |
| January 2006 | Alexey Stepanov joins the Department of Statistics as Lecturer |
| August 2005 | Ping Ma joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor |
| August 2005 | Yuguo Chen joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor |
| August 2005 | Xuming He is elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association |
| Spring 2005 | Ellen Fireman receives the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate teaching |
| Spring 2005 | Ellen Fireman receives the LAS Lynn Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers |
| February 5, 2005 | In Memoriam Robert A. Wijsman, August 20, 1920 - February 5, 2005 |
| 2005 - 2007 | Stephen Portnoy is Co-Editor Elect of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory & Methods |
| Fall 2004 | Y. Michelle Wang joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor |
| 2003 - 2005 | Xuming He is Program Director for Statistics at the National Science Foundation |
| Fall 2003 | Sarah Hartz wins national outstanding Ph.D. thesis award from the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation Division of the American Psychology Association |
| Fall 2002 | Hernando Ombao joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor |
| July 2002 | Xuming He named as Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| Spring 2002 | John Marden wins the Campus Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction |
| Usha Dhar wins LAS Staff Award | |
| Fall 2001 | Jeff Douglas joins Department of Statistics as Associate Professor |
| Spring 2001 | Adam Martinsek wins LAS and Campus Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching |
| 2001 - 2003 | John Marden is Co-Editor of the Annals of Statistics |
| 2001 | Bill Stout is President-Elect of the Psychometric Society |
| 2001 | Stan Wasserman is President-Elect of the Classification Society of North America |
| August 2000 | Doug Simpson is named as Fellow of the American Statistical Association |
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