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It was an honor to host Dr. David Page last week, Professor and Chair of the Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Department at Duke. He presented on why “Deep Neural Networks Really Are the Right Way for a Biostatistician to Analyze Biological Data.”

We were excited to have Dr. Xiaotong Shen, Distinguished Professor from the University of Minnesota, at UNC this past week. He presented on “Boosting Data Analytics with Synthetic Volume Expansion” and fielded a lot of questions from our students. Thanks again for coming!

Congratulations Bonnie Shook-Sa, DrPH, on her recent NIH NIAID K Award! She works at the intersection of infectious diseases, causal inference, and epidemiology, and will be developing new statistical methods to improve global public health. Global Health at UNC Gillings UNC Gillings Research

Please join us for our 75th Anniversary in November! We will look back on the Department’s past achievements, share current research, and discuss the future of biostatistics. give.unc.edu/sph/events/BIO…

Thank you so much Dr. Jessica Li Jingyi Jessica Li (李婧翌) for coming from California to speak about “Dissecting Double Dipping in Statistical Tests After Clustering,” and how your group at UCLA uses simulated and real-world scenarios to identify more reliable results with omics data.

We had a great time hosting Dr. Jon Steingrimsson from Brown University (center left), and he spoke on the “Generalizability of Measures of Model Performance.” Thanks so much for coming and spending time with our students!

Congratulations Professor Rashid! Naim Rashid

It was an honor hosting Dr. Lexin Li from the University of California, Berkeley, and he gave our students a great overview of statistical neuroimaging analyses and investigations his group has done.

Curious about graduate programs with UNC Biostatistics? We’re having a virtual open house, please drop in on Zoom unc.zoom.us/j/98714040766 Oct. 25 at 10am and say hello! UNC Gillings Research

Come join us Nov 12-13 (after the Bios 75th) for a Conference in honor of Dr. Michael Kosorok’s more than three decades of exceptional research and mentoring! More info laber-labs.com/pages/kosorok-…… Register at give.unc.edu/sph/events/kos…….

We were thrilled to host Dr. Annie Qu Annie Qu Chancellor’s Professor in Statistics at the University of California, Irvine! Dr. Qu presented on Stage Aware Learning for Dynamic Treatments, with a novel framework for better identifying and adapting effective patient treatments.

For anyone considering our graduate programs, the application deadlines are coming up. Come join us! sph.unc.edu/bios/bios-how-…

Thanks again for everyone who made the Bios 75th a success! Photos of the before and after, with 240+ attendees coming to celebrate the department and our profession of biostatistics.

We were glad the Bios75th could be a space to make new memories and revisit old ones. It was great seeing so many people there!

#SciencebytheSlice returns this Thursday! UNC-Chapel Hill Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Provost Distinguished Faculty Leader, Tanya Garcia discusses her research on how censored data can solve mysteries in understanding disease progression. NC locals—join us in-person at Sigma

We congratulate Professor Zhu on this great honor from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers! Fewer than 0.1% of IEEE members are made Fellows each year, and we recognize his extraordinary work and achievement. UNC Gillings Research

Please come join us at #ENAR2025 in beautiful New Orleans for our Alumni, Student and Faculty Reception on Monday, March 24th! We hope to see you there! Sign-up: forms.office.com/r/1UAAbfp1FQ

Congrats to our talented Biostat BSPH students! Our Biostatistics Undergraduates were recently acknowledged for their outstanding academic achievements in course work! dailytarheel.com/article/2024/1…

We celebrate Dr. Naim Rashid receiving a Gillings Research Excellence Award! These go to early- to mid-career faculty who demonstrate excellence, innovation, and impact in their research. sph.unc.edu/sph-news/7-gil…