Category: Statistics

Texas A&M statistics major Alex Peters ’21 thought he was like every other young person in college — hungry to learn, hungry for adventure and hungry to embark on a major life milestone. Then he realized that some of his peers were just plain hungry, prompting him to get involved in First Year Eats and a yearlong research project to determine how adequate food intake can affect academic retention and GPR in freshmen.

Texas A&M statistician Cliff Spiegelman is among 13 Texas A&M System faculty members honored with the 2018-19 Regents Professor Award recognizing exemplary contributions to the A&M System and people of Texas.

A cross-disciplinary team of Texas A&M researchers led by statistician Bani Mallick has been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million Transdisciplinary Research In Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a new institute, the Texas A&M Research Institute for Foundations of Interdisciplinary Data Science (FIDS).

University of California, Berkeley statistician, data scientist and National Academy of Sciences member Bin Yu will visit the Texas A&M campus Sept. 5 as the guest speaker for the biennial Emanuel Parzen Prize Lecture Series, sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of Statistics.

Fifty years ago, Ersen Arseven ’74 made a life-altering choice, deciding to pursue his Ph.D. in statistics at Texas A&M University. He continues to invest in Texas A&M's future and that of its faculty and students through endowments — a topic we recently teamed up with the Texas A&M Foundation to explore in both video and behind-the-scenes formats.

Congratulations to Texas A&M statistician Cliff Spiegelman, who has been recognized by the Texas A&M chapter of Sigma Xi with one of its primary annual awards celebrating scientific excellence and advancement — the 2019 Outstanding Science Communicator Award.

Texas A&M statistician Valen Johnson is one of about 40 contributing authors featured in The American Statistician special issue on p-values and statistical significance, along with a related Nature March 28 edition Correspondence. While he acknowledges raising standards would make it harder for researchers to publish, Johnson tells Undark magazine he sees potential for more discoveries and better science as researchers gain confidence in previous work and spend less time replicating studies.

February marked the 10th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences landmark report that established a blueprint for forensic science research. Texas A&M statistician and forensics expert Cliff Spiegelman weighs in on its lasting impact in an Innocence Project blog and the broader big-data effects with Fast Company.

Texas A&M is gearing up to host hundreds of students and their families Saturday, Feb. 23, in the John R. Blocker Building for some free math and stat-inspired fun as part of the 16th annual Texas A&M Mathematics and Statistics Fair.

Jianhua Huang, a respected researcher and educator in statistical machine learning, computational statistics and statistical methods for big data sets, has been appointed as associate director of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science.

Texas A&M statistician Derya Akleman will work closely with each of the college's five departments and across the university in her new administrative role as assistant dean for diversity and college climate in the College of Science.

Texas A&M statistician Huiyan Sang has been selected to receive the American Statistical Association's 2018 ENVR Early Investigator Award, presented by the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) in honor of her outstanding contributions to spatial and environmental statistics.

Jianhua Huang, a respected researcher and educator in statistical machine learning, computational statistics and statistical methods for big data sets, has been appointed as acting head of the Texas A&M Department of Statistics.

Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor and Head of Statistics Dr. Valen E. Johnson has been appointed as Interim Dean of the Texas A&M College of Science, effective July 1.

The Texas A&M Master's of Science in Analytics program recently celebrated its fourth graduating class, 100th all-time graduate and 2018 Roland H. Acra '86 Master of Science in Analytics Award recipients Diego Molinari and Marek Danis.