U of M Biostatistics

🎉 New Award: Michigan Biostatistics Significant Alumni Award 🎉

We’re excited to announce a brand-new opportunity to recognize the incredible achievements of our alumni!

The Significant Alumni Award honors graduates of the University of Michigan’s Department of Biostatistics (within 20 years of graduation) who are making meaningful impacts through their work in research, innovation, public health, and leadership.

📌 Nominations (including self-nominations!) are open through April 30.
🏆 Winner will be celebrated at JSM 2025 and invited to speak to the department in Fall 2025.

Let’s celebrate the power of biostatistics and the people driving it forward.
Nominate someone today!

NOMINATE HERE: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_38k6F5guglFUh8i

We're thrilled to congratulate Veera Baladandayuthapani on his newly announced appointment as the next Chair of the Department of Biostatistics here at the University of Michigan! Our community is in great hands as we build upon our traditions of research excellence, world-class education, collaboration, and kindness.

Veera Baladandayuthapani named chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Michigan Public Health.

Baladandayuthapani has been a professor of Biostatistics at Michigan Public Health since 2018, after spending 13 years in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His research interests are focused on statistical and machine learning modeling of high-dimensional biomedical data, especially genomics and imaging. His work has resulted in more than 150 papers published in top statistical, biostatistical, machine learning, bioinformatics, biomedical, and oncology journals.

Learn more: https://myumi.ch/M6JGp

The perfect day to celebrate both circumference over diameter and filling over crust: it's Pi Day! Michigan Biostatistics marked the occasion with a variety of pies from Grand Traverse Pie Company, Pi-themed trivia, a special countdown to 3:14pm with a "Pie Drop", and a good-natured, last-person-standing Pi memorization contest. Thanks to all who attended!

Thank you to Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs Kelley Kidwell for sharing with the community the in-progress story of her life and career in her Journey Lecture, one of the department's most treasured traditions!

We were proud to welcome the future of Michigan Biostatistics -- and the fields of biostatistics and health data science, generally -- at our annual Biostatistics Admitted Student Experience!

What a great afternoon of departmental fun and camaraderie at the iconic Yost Ice Arena for the annual Biostatistics Ice Skating Outing!

The breadth and depth of the research being conducted by our PhD students was on full display today as we hosted our annual Senior PhD Student Research Showcase. The future of biostatistics is bright! Thank you to all our presenters and those who attended to learn about the great work being done by our PhD students.

Hail to the Victors! The Department of Biostatistics defended its title in the second annual Biostatistics vs. Epidemiology Co****le Tournament in close battle with our friendly rivals! Thank you to all who participated and attended this collaborative activity

Thank you to Professor and Associate Chair for Research Lu Wang for sharing the story of her life and career to date at one of our treasured departmental traditions: the Journey Lecture series!

Students from our "Introduction to Health Data Science" and "Applied Statistics for Linear Regression" courses showcased the concepts they learned this semester with year-end poster sessions.

Congratulations to all of our 2024 graduates! Wherever your journey takes you next, you will always have a home at Michigan Biostatistics!