Forrest (Roy) Wilkes has been awarded a Summer 2026 CURO Research Award to pursue research in Bayesian Ranking and Optimization under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal.

Each year, the American Statistical Association (ASA) sponsors a two-day data science competition and "celebration of data" known as ASA DataFest. 

In a recent American Statistical Association (ASA) election, Dr. Prince Allotey was elected Council of Sections Representative for the ASA Section on Statistics and Data Science Education. This post has a three-year term starting in 2027. 

On May 7, the Department of Statistics hosted its annual Convocation event in Sanford Hall.

UGA Statistics Assistant Professor, Dr.  RJ Liu, was recently informed that her proposal, AI-Driven Multimodal Feature Engineering for Personalized Biomedical System Design, has been funded under the NSF's highly prestigious CAREER grant program