Angelina Garcia, a junior from Bethlehem, GA working on her BS in Statistics and MS in Statistics in the UGA Double Dawg program, has been selected to participate in the McNair Scholars Program. The goal of the McNair Scholars Program is to increase the number of underrepresented students in doctoral programs. In Summer 2026, Angelina will be working with Department of Statistics faculty members Dr. Gauri Datta and Dr.

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The Department of Statistics Convocation event will be split into separate ceremonies for undergraduates and graduate students. Please read the information below carefully and be on the lookout for emails regarding the availability of guest tickets.

Please join us from 5:30pm to 7:00pm on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 via Zoom for this special event.

We invite students, faculty and current SCC staff to join us for a 90-minute conversation with three former SCC consultants and Statistics PhD graduates,

• Dr. Huimin Hu

  Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo

The Master of Science in Applied Data Science program at the University of Georgia brought together its inaugural advisory board on March 31, gathering industry leaders and UGA alumni in Athens for a day of conversation, collaboration, and strategic visioning for the program’s future.

The University of Georgia Department of Statistics hosted its annual Industry Day on March 19, welcoming Dr. Ryan Lekivetz, Director of Advanced Analytics R&D at JMP, for a full day of discussions, student meetings, and a departmental colloquium.

Jeffrey S. Rosenthal is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto and a leading expert in probability theory and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a recipient of the COPSS Presidents’ Award, one of the highest honors in the statistical sciences. His other awards include the CRM–SSC Prize and the SSC Gold Medal. He is also widely recognized for his outstanding teaching and public outreach, including popular books and lectures on probability and statistics.
 

Congratulations to Roy Wilkes, a Statistics major, on being awarded the Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship at UGA and named a Stamps Scholar by the Stamps Scholars Program! His Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship provides four semester stipends from fall 2026 through spring 2028. As a Stamps Scholar, Roy joins a national community with special programming and opportunities, supported through the partnership between the Stamps Scholars Program and leading scholarship initiatives like the Foundation Fellowship.