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Congratulations to our Associate Professor Daniel McDonald on his role as the Regional Representative on the board of directors representing Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). His new role began on July 1, 2023 and he will serve until June 30, 2025.

2023 SSC Case Studies in Data Analysis Poster Competition was held on Monday, May 29, 2023 at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON. The case studies are intended to provide enthusiastic teams of graduate and senior undergraduate students with the opportunity to use data analysis to address issues of current importance in society. Each participating team chooses to analyze one of the two studies described on the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) website. Each team is strongly encouraged to identify a faculty member to support the members as they develop their analytic approach and final presentation. Team members work together to present a poster summarizing their methods and analysis results.

The eleventh annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC) took place on Saturday, May 27, 2023. This conference was all about engaging students through research presentations, statistical skills development workshops and talks, and an interactive career session with invited statisticians from different professional areas.

Our department is thrilled to be welcoming two new faculty colleagues: Katie Burak and G. Alexi Rodríguez-Arelis.

We’re delighted to announce that our Professor Emeritus Nancy Heckman has been named an Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). This award is intended to honor an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the development of the statistical sciences in Canada and whose work has had a major impact in this country.

In a recent announcement on the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)'s website, our Statistics Associate Professor of Teaching, Tiffany Timbers, was awarded the first SSC Early Career Educator Award for 2023. This new award recognizes excellence in teaching statistics by early career SSC members, through commitment to evidence-based pedagogy and in contributions to statistical education in Canada.

The Statistics Department is pleased to honour Zuheng (David) Xu with Statistics Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards.

The Nash Medal in Statistics was awarded this academic year to Tiange (Ivy) Liu, who graduates with Combined Honours degree in Statistics and Mathematics. Ivy’s grades are 90% and above in fourth year Statistics courses. She worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Statistics Department in the Summer of 2022. As a next step, Ivy will continue her studies in the fall in the Master of Science program in Statistics at the University of British Columbia.

Congratulations to this year's Canadian Journal of Statistics Award winners:

We are proud of Saifuddin Syed for having received the Pierre Robillard Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). Saif won this prize for his thesis “Non-reversible parallel tempering on optimized paths”, which was supervised by Professor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté.