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Promotion and Tenure, 2021 (May 2021)
Congratulations to Qi Zheng on his tenure and promotion to Associate Professor and Dongfeng Wu on her promotion to Professor.
Six Faculty, One Student named Faculty Favorites for 2019-2020 (Dec 2020)
Congratulations to Riten Mitra, Subhadip Pal, and Shesh Rai who have been named Faculty Favorites for the 2018-2019 academic year. Visit the Faculty Favorites page to read the comments submitted by students about the teaching efforts of Drs. Mitra, Pal, and Rai.
Six Faculty, One Student named Faculty Favorites for 2018-2019 (Dec 2019)
Congratulations to Jeremy Gaskins, Doug Lorenz, Rebekah Musselwhite, Subhadip Pal, Shesh Rai, Michael Sekula, and Qi Zheng, who have been named Faculty Favorites for the 2018-2019 academic year. Visit the Faculty Favorites page to read the comments submitted by students about the teaching efforts of Mr. Sekula and Drs. Gaskins, Lorenz, Musselwhite, Pal and Zheng.
Research!Louisville Student Winners (Oct 2018)
Congratulations to Connor English, MS in Biostatistics student, and Ugochuwku (Ugo) Olowabi, MPH Biostatistics concentrator, both of whom won 1st place awards at Research!Louisville 2018. Connor's poster, "Multiple comorbidities among patients with community-acquired pneumonia lead to higher mortality rates regardless of age", won 1st place: Research and Practice and Ugo's poster, "Missing laboratory values among patients with pneumonia should not exclude them from analysis in clinical research", won 1st place: Master's Student for SPHIS. Each received a prize of $175. Click here to see photos of Connor and Ugo at Research!Louisville.
Four Faculty, One Student named Faculty Favorites for 2017-2018 (Sep 2018)
Congratulations to Maiying Kong, Doug Lorenz, Shesh Rai, and Dongfeng Wu, who have been named Faculty Favorites for the 2017-2018 academic year. Congratulations also to Mary Gregg, a doctoral student in biostatistics, for being nominated a Faculty Favorite for her service as a tutor in the University's REACH program. Visit the Faculty Favorites page to read the comments submitted by students about the teaching efforts of Ms. Gregg and Drs. Kong, Lorenz, Rai, and Wu.
Five Faculty, One Student named Faculty Favorites for 2016-2017 (Dec 2017)
Congratulations to our faculty members Jeremy Gaskins, Doug Lorenz, Riten Mitra, Shesh Rai, and Dongfeng Wu, who have been named Faculty Favorites for the 2016-2017 academic year at the University of Louisville. Congratulations also to Mary Gregg, a doctoral student in biostatistics, for being nominated a Faculty Favorite for her service as a tutor in the University's REACH program. The Faculty Favorites program honors faculty for outstanding teaching by soliciting student nominations each year. Visit the Faculty Favorites page to read the comments submitted by students about the teaching efforts of Ms. Gregg and Drs. Gaskins, Lorenz, Mitra, Rai, and Wu.
Kong, Lewis, Lorenz named Faculty Favorites for 2015-2016 (Sep 2016)
Congratulations to Maiying Kong, Larry Lewis, and Doug Lorenz, who have been named Faculty Favorites for the 2015-2106 academic year at the University of Louisville. The Faculty Favorites program solicits nominations from students each year, and each nominated faculty member is named as a Faculty Favorite. Head over to the Faculty Favorites page to read some of the comments students submitted about Drs. Kong, Lewis, and Lorenz.
Doug Lorenz named University “Top 4” Faculty Favorite (Feb 2015)
Congratulations to Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., who has been named a “Top 4” Faculty Favorite at the University of Louisville. The Faculty Favorites program solicits nominations from students each year, and the top four nominated are honored with the “Top 4” Faculty Favorites award. For more details, check out the School of Public Health and Information Sciences announcement and the University of Louisville’s news item.
K.B. Kulasekera and Shesh Rai named ASA Fellows (June 2014)
Congratulations to K.B. Kulasekera and Shesh Rai, who have been named fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA). The designation of fellow is awarded to only 1/3 of one percent of the ASA membership and recognizes outstanding leadership and professional contribution to the ASA and the field of statistics. Check out the School of Public Health and Information Sciences announcement and the release from the ASA announcing their designation.
Archived Events
International Conference of the Institute of Applied Statistics, Sri Lanka (IASSL 2014)
December 28-30, 2014
Galadari Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference, 2013 (SRC 2013)
June 2-5, 2013
Montgomery Bell State Park, Burns, TN, USA
