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Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
February 7, 2022, 3:36PM

Learn more about the collection in this Dietrich College story. Congratulations to the DELPHI group!

December 13, 2021, 5:07PM

Applications are invited for an Open Rank Position in Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science in the Delphi Research Group, and for a Part-Time Instructor position.

October 8, 2021, 1:10PM

Learn all about our beginnings, our growth, and our journey to becoming a world-class Department of Statistics and Data Science.
The history through 2011 appears in Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S., A. Agresti and X.-L. Meng, eds., pp. 9-26, Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013. The compilation of a history from 2011 to the present by faculty and staff is underway, and will appear as an addendum to the history posted here.

September 2, 2021, 2:56PM

Statistics & Data Science Professor Alessandro Rinaldo will serve as the next associate dean for research (ADR) of Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Read more here.

August 2, 2021, 1:50PM

Faculty members Valérie Ventura and Rebecca Nugent, along with Master in Statistical Practice graduate students Cheyenne Ehman, Yixuan Luo, Zi Yang and Ziyan Zhu worked with Pitt lead researcher Dr. Seema Lakdawala in developing a computational model to evaluate the effect of school posture on the spread of Covid-19. Read more here.

August 2, 2021, 12:54PM

Rebecca Nugent, the Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Professor and Department Head, Statistics & Data Science, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Sam Ventura (DC 2011, 2015) hosted the podcast, Sports Teams Win Big with Data-Driven Decision Making.

July 19, 2021, 12:11PM

Congratulations to Holly Bossart, who has been selected as one of the first two recipients of the ASA PRIDE scholarship. Read more about Holly, and her co-recipient Evan Boyle, here.

June 29, 2021, 11:02AM

Stats & Stories is the American Statistics Association's podcast about the "statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics." Listen to this episode "The Wonders of Astrostatistics."

June 22, 2021, 11:54AM

Five CMU faculty received funding from the Amazon Research Awards. Statistics & Data Science assistant professor Siva Balakrishnan is one of two members of Dietrich College to receive fellowships. Read more here.

June 2, 2021, 2:09PM

The CMU team of Chris Warren, Pierce Williams, Shruti Rijhwani, and Max G’Sell has won Honorable Mention in the Rare Book School’s Andrew W Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Essay Prize. Read more

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