Biostatistics 2015 Awards Day recipients announced

This year’s Biostatistics Awards Day was held on Thursday, April 23 in Room 1301, McGavran-Greenberg Hall.

Lu Mao, one of this year’s ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award winners, presented Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Transformation Models for the Cumulative Incidence of Competing Risks.

This year’s other ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award winners from UNC are Dr. Guanhua Chen (now assistant professor of biostatistics at Vanderbilt University), Eunjee Lee (department of Statistics), and Thomas Stewart. Fang-Shu Ou was the recipient of the ENAR 2015 Regional Advisory Board Poster Award.

Additional award recipients are Dr. Guanghua Chen, recipient of the Barry H. Margolin Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research in Biostatistics; Dr. Zhengzheng Tang, recipient of the Kupper Dissertation Publication Award; and Xuan Zhou, recipient of the Elandt-Johnson Award for Best Biostatistics Master’s paper.

Awards presented to the 2015 Delta Omega award recipients:

Delta Omega Graduate Student Inductees: Dr. Sayan Dasgupta, Avner Halevy, Valerie Smith, Thomas Stewart, and Jianqi Xiao
Delta Omega Faculty Award: Dr. Yun Li
Delta Omega Student Academic Excellence Book Award: Carolina Alvarez
Delta Omega Alumni Award: Dr. Sean Simpson
Delta Omega Recognition of Service Award: Brian Barkley
Delta Omega Undergraduate Award: Jiejing Zhang