This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction. Congratulations, Lynne!

UGA Statistics PhD student, Shushan Wu, has been honored as one of the award recipients of the 2025 Student Paper Competition in the area of Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics, sponsored by the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics.

On Tuesday, December 3, we held our Virtual Open House for Prospective Graduate Students via Zoom. If you were unable to attend, but would like to gather information and view the session for yourself, please click here.

The Department’s Newsletter has been on hiatus for a while, so let's catch you up on the SCC news. For those of you who don’t know, the “SCC” is the UGA Statistical Consulting Center. The Center, which I direct, is a unit of the Department of Statistics, but also a Core Facility of the UGA Office of Research.

Deeya Datta wins AISC2024 and GSD2024 Award

Data Science major Sloka Sudhin and Statistics major Deeya Datta were finalists for the Undergraduate Presentation Award at the 2024 International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics. Deeya Datta earned the runner-up award. Congratulations to both Deeya and Sloka!

The Department of Statistics is very pleased to congratulate Dr. Monsur Chowdhury, who was promoted to Senior Lecturer starting August 1, 2024.

Congratulations, Dr. Chowdhury! 

The Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia is excited to announce two faculty searches for the positions of an Assistant Professor and a Program Coordinator for our Online MS in Applied Data Science.

Interested applicants can find additional information here:

Assistant Professor

Program Coordinator

Please reach out to Department Head, Dr Dan Hall (danhall@uga.edu) if you have any questions. 

Congratulations Nathan McEntire:

Gathering Minds Across Georgia: Promoting Interdisciplinary Statistics Research

The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and the University of Georgia department of Statistics cordially invite you to the 2024 Georgia Statistics Day (GSD)! This year, GDS will be hosted at Emory University!