Undergraduate Statistics Student Katie Li Receives a FoS Excellence in Service Award
Katie (Zijing) Li has been honoured with a Faculty of Science Excellence in Service Awards 2017. Katie is a fourth-year undergraduate Statistics major who has been active in enhancing the UBC undergraduate experience through her participation and leadership in UBC-established programs and her leadership in the recently established Undergraduate Statistics Society (USS).
Thank you, Katie, for your contributions to the Faculty of Science community.
StatSpace: resources for teaching introductory statistics
StatSpace, produced through the Flexible Learning Introductory Statistics (FLIS) Project, is now available in a "soft launch" form. This preliminary version allows you to explore and use the current resources, namely, web visualizations, videos, WebWorK questions and some clicker questions, material that has been team-vetted and trialed on thousands of UBC students.
Thorne-Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipients- 2017
The Anona Thorne and Takao Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship was established through the generosity of UBC Statistics alumna Anona Thorne and her husband Takao Tanabe. The scholarship is offered annually to students entering a graduate program in Statistics. Anona Thorne (BA '91 Mathematics; MSc '93 Statistics) is a double alumna of UBC and went on to an interesting career using her statistics training at the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network at Saint Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. Takao Tanabe is an internationally acclaimed Canadian painter.
Special Lecture: 150 Years or More of Data Analysis in Canada
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Dr John & Barbara Petkau Scholarships Awarded to Huaiwen (Angela) Dong and Kenny Chiu
This year’s recipients of the Dr John and Barbara Petkau Scholarships are Huaiwen (Angela) Dong and Kenny Chiu.
Free Statistical Consultation: November 2017 call
The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via SOS, STAT 551 and STAT 450/550, as follows.
Scotiabank funds Statistics research on Risk Analytics
Professors Natalia Nolde and Harry Joe (UBC-V Statistics) and John Braun (UBC-O Statistics) have received funding to help Scotiabank in its efforts to advance financial modelling to help manage risks and protect customers.
Janet Lam receives Nash Medal
The Nash Medal this year is awarded to Janet Lam. Janet has completed a major in Statistics and a minor in Computer Science, and she will graduate this year with distinction. The majority of her grades have been in the 90s, and she has completed 4 Co-op work terms. Last year, Janet was awarded the Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarship, and she has also received the Trek Excellence scholarship as well as scholarships from the Computer Science Department.
Guohai Zhou and Kris Hong first recipients of Rick White Award
Undergraduate Kris Hong and PhD student Guohai Zhou are the first recipients of the Rick White Award. This recently established award recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in statistical science through collaboration with investigators in another discipline on a substantial application. The award honours the memory of Rick White, who served the Department and the University with his gifts in Applied Statistics.
UBC Statistics honours 3 teams of students at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair
The Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair, held at UBC April 6 – 8, 2017, showcased amazing projects from students from many schools in the Lower Mainland. This year, we honoured these 3 teams of students with the 2017 UBC Statistics Award:
Junior division
“Qui le dit en premier”
By Claudia Hill and Isabella Haas-Bardi from Alpha Secondary
Read about their project: http://bit.ly/2qoFhMa