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🎳 Flashback Friday! Earlier this year, our MS students and faculty kicked off the new semester with a bowling celebration! The scores had plenty of variability, but a good time was had by all. #SmallDepartmentBigImpact #SmallDepartmentBigFun

🌶️ 🏆 On Friday, there was a chili cook-off between faculty from the stat and math departments at Wake Forest University. Congratulations to our very own Graduate Coordinator, Associate Prof Dan Beavers for taking home the title! Thanks to all the students who came out to judge!

👏 Last week we were lucky enough to host Dr. Anarina Murillo from Brown University Dept of Biostatistics for Colloquium. She discussed strategies to incorporate advanced topics like measurement error and developing statistical thinking into intro courses. Thank you for visiting!

🆕 New week, new pub! Dan Beavers (Associate Professor / Graduate Coordinator) coauthored a recent study in Social Science and Medicine with researchers from Purdue University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.

🎷 Next week, Wake Stats is heading to New Orleans for the 2025 Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Spring Meeting! Six of our incredible faculty, students, and alums will be sharing their research. Stay tuned for details on each of their presentations!

🆕 This week, we're celebrating new publications from two of our Wake Forest University teacher-scholars in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education! Drs. Ciaran Evans and Lucy D’Agostino McGowan (both assistant profs) propose novel pedagogical tools for teaching regression and data wrangling in R.

👏 We are so excited to welcome Bhramar Mukherjee to Wake Forest University/Wake Forest University School of Medicine this week for our 3rd Annual Distinguished Lectureship in Statistics and Biostatistics! Faculty and students can't wait to hear about "The Importance of Statistical Thinking in an AI-Augmented World."

🎙️ This afternoon Nikolas Lindauer (BS from Rice University) will defend his M.S. thesis in Statistics entitled "Modeling Legal Strategies for Opioid Harm Reduction in North Carolina," advised by Dr. Staci Hepler (Vice Chair, Associate Professor). Go, Nikolas!

👏 Huge congratulations to Dr. Lynne Yengulalp (Associate Prof), who was recognized yesterday with a Wake Forest University "Thrive Dimension Champion Award," recognizing excellence demonstrated through programming, teaching, or other collaborative efforts within the Wake community.

⚾️ Today senior John Nelson presented on "Quality and Longevity of MLB Pitchers Post-Tommy John Surgery" to his colleagues in the SESH Lab! He has worked with Dr. Staci Hepler (Assoc Prof/Vice Chair) on it. Next week he'll be starting his new job at #InmarIntelligence! Go, Jack!

👏 Last Friday, Nikolas Lindauer successfully defended his M.S. thesis in Statistics at Wake Forest University! Congratulations to Nikolas and his incredible advisor, Staci Hepler, on an impact-driven project that showcased the stats while keeping North Carolinians' health at the forefront.

🏔️ This week, Wake Stats is heading to Salt Lake City for the 2025 ASA Symposium on Data Science & Statistics! 🎤 Dr. Noah Gade (Assistant Prof) will discuss a novel measure of functional connectivity using permutations, with applications to neuronal response data.