Dr. Pranab K. Sen Pranab K. Sen, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of biostatistics, was selected as this year’s winner of the International Indian Statistical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics. Sen accepted the award on April 23 at the 2011 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) conference... Read more »
May 10, 2011 Stephen Gray Redding Eight undergraduates studying at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and one recent graduate were inducted this spring into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored of college honorary societies. The recently inducted students include: Rachel Tomomi Baum, a junior majoring in health policy and... Read more »
April 21, 2011 Dr. Fred Wright Dr. Donglin Zeng Dr. Hongtu Zhu Three biostatistics faculty members at UNC Gillings School of Global Health were selected recently as fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Fred Wright, PhD, professor, and associate professors Donglin Zeng, PhD, and Hongtu Zhu, PhD, will be inducted into fellowship in August... Read more »
This year’s Biostatistics Awards Day was held on April the 6th at Rosenau Hall. The Grizzle lecture and awards ceremony took place in room 133, and a reception followed in the Rosenau courtyard. Dr. Jean Orelien (DrPH, 2007) is the 2011 recipient of the James E. Grizzle Distinguished Alumni Award. Orelien is currently President and... Read more »
April 13, 2011 North Carolinians will know more about what contaminates their well water, what happens to mothers exposed to medical radiation, and why asthma rates are high in schools near industrial hog farms, thanks to the work of graduate students at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. These and other outstanding projects... Read more »
April 13, 2011 U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, United States surgeon general, will present this year’s commencement address for the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health on Saturday, May 7, at 1 p.m. in Carmichael Arena on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.... Read more »
Rebecca Rothwell Rebecca Rothwell was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship for graduate study in biostatistics. The award provides support for three years of graduate study in addition to an annual stipend. The NSF program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing... Read more »
<div”> Dr. Shrikant Bangdiwala Shrikant Bandiwala, PhD, research professor of biostatistics, was recently awarded a three-year, $1.9 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to lead a multi-center study of overweight, obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors among Hispanic children living in the U.S. “Hispanic Community Children’s Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL-Youth)” is the... Read more »
Congratulations to our department’s two winners of the 2011 Eastern North American Region of the International Biometrics Society’s Distinguished Student Paper awards. Liddy Chen and Tracy Nolen were recognized alongside 18 other students at the 2011 ENAR spring meeting in Miami, Florida. Sungkyu Jung and Wonyull Lee from UNC’s Department of Statistics & Operations Research... Read more »
March 22, 2011 Yu Zhou Yu Zhou, a UNC sophomore accepted into the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) program next fall, has been named a winner in the 2011 Davis Projects for Peace initiative. Zhou, who will study biostatistics at the public health school, developed Young Scholars... Read more »
