@UWBiostat promotes the use of rigorous quantitative methods to revolutionize public health, medicine, and other health fields by turning data into knowledge.
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Register soon! Explore the role of causal inference in biomedical research. The Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics (Nov 22-25) also offers short courses (Nov 15-16). All sessions are online. Early rate discounts end Nov 9. biostat.washington.edu/seatt…
Today's @UWBiostat seminar features Mariano Gabbito, PhD, @AllenInstitute, Affiliate Professor of Statistics, @UWStat | Read abstract and get event details at: bit.ly/4oALKwp
MS Capstone student Breanna Brown interned with @KCPubHealth on a direct study with the County public health department's Overdose Surveillance team to develop a supervised learning model that classifies textual responses into predetermined categories. bit.ly/4nfBOHq
Alex Gibberd, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Statistics at @LancasterUni, will present l1-Regularized Generalized Least Squares tomorrow, Oct. 16 at our department seminar. 3:30 p.m. | UW Health Sciences Education Building, Room 235. More at: bit.ly/3KQvMQa
Registration is now open! The Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics is online Nov 22-25 from 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. PST daily. Topics explore the role causal inference in biomedical research. Check out keynote speakers, daily session topics, and more: biostat.washington.edu/seatt…
Join us on Nov. 22-25 for the Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics, an online event during which contemporary issues in causal inference for biomedical data will be explored. Registration opens soon! Check out speakers, session themes, and more: biostat.washington.edu/seatt…
This Thursday's @UWBiostat seminar features Xinwei Shen, PhD from @UWStat in a talk that focuses on generalization beyond the observed data distribution, including problems such as extrapolation, distribution shifts, and causal inference. bit.ly/48amMiA
The UW Genetic Analysis Center (GAC), part of @UWBiostat and @uwsph, has been awarded $1.34 million to serve as the coordinating center for the National Institute on Aging's (NIA) Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP). More details at: bit.ly/4nOzM1L
Welcome to our new MS Capstone, MS Thesis, and PhD students in @UWBiostat! Wishing all of our incoming and returning students a great autumn quarter!
Announcing new department leadership for UW Biostatistics @UWBiostat. Ali Shojaie has been named interim department chair, and Marco Carone, interim associate chair. Read more: bit.ly/4mkPMaw
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Community Connections is an excellent opportunity for grad students to build connection and community across campus. Register with link in bio.
Virtual Student Panel
📆Oct 15
⏰3:30–4:45pm
📍Via Zoom
In-Person Reception
📆Oct 16
⏰4:30–7:30pm
📍Intellectual House
Last year, 394 students were honored for presenting research at ABRCMS. The energy was unforgettable — don’t miss it this year! 🏆
📍 Nov 19–22 | San Antonio, TX
🔗 Register + book hotel by Oct 27: abrcms.org/register/
UW Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics Bruce Weir will give a special lecture on Sept. 16 on, "GRM estimation: recommendations and implications for quantitative genetic analyses." 12:00 p.m. in HRC Room 145. Details at: bit.ly/488V3i0
Convened every five years, the Seattle Symposium brings together experts and thought leaders in biostatistics, data science, clinical medicine and public health to discuss pressing scientific issues. bit.ly/7thSeattleSymposium
Congrats to @uwsph @UWBiostat alum Jeff Leek (MS ’05, PhD ’07) and his Cancer AI Alliance team on being named to #TIME100AI! Leek is chief data officer at @fredhutch Read more at: time.com/collections/time100…
@UWBiostat was well-represented at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the American Statistical Association @AmstatNews. View photo highlights from the Biostatistics & @UWStat JSM reception at: bit.ly/3JE8nAG
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The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) is open to undergraduate and 1st and 2nd year graduate students in social science and STEM fields. Register for the upcoming information sessions with the links in our bio for more information!
@UWBiostat Taek Son's research on "Dimension reduction and covariate balancing for learning individualized treatment regimes" receives WNAR student paper honor and travel award from ICSA. Read more: bit.ly/3JaRAFf
Congrats to @uwsph faculty Marco Carone on this prestigious award! “Through his mentorship, teaching, and collaborative research...his work stands as a model for how cutting-edge methodology can be harnessed to address pressing health questions” bit.ly/47eOdHg
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Join us for this symposium on innovative early detection technologies and how these advancements are shaping the future of cancer screening for both patients and clinicians. 📅 September 12, 2025 📍 Seattle, WA
Register: bit.ly/44fmowz
