University of Minnesota Biostatistics

"Like all academic institutions, we have an obligation to assure that harassment and misconduct of any nature are unacceptable in our academic environment and workplace. They are antithetical to a culture of support and mutual respect. Building a better culture...is a long journey that will require trust and commitment from everyone." — John Finnegan Jr., Dean of the School of Public Health.

Dean: U of M Professor Retires Following Sexual Harassment Complaints In a letter addressed to School of Public Heath faculty, staff and students provided by the school, John Finnegan Jr. wrote Professor Brad Carlin "chooses to exercise his right to retire from the University of Minnesota effective June 11, 2018."

Congrats to new ASA Fellow Prof. Saonli Basu!

Minnesota Biostat cleans up at the HPSS student travel awards once again: Congrats Alex Kaizer & Jeff Boatman!

Great feature story about Biostat MS graduate and women's professional tackle football player Connor Jo Lewis -- hope you enjoy it and that it gives her a smile as she begins her long road back from a torn ACL suffered in her most recent game :/

Finding Her Field - School of Public Health Connor Jo Lewis has always been good at math and she knew that strength could lead to a greater understanding of the disease she was born with, cystic fibrosis (CF)....

The Chair gets some air at the year-end picnic!

Julian Wolfson doing his electronic health data thing again!

ASPPH | Minnesota Study Tests Cardiovascular Risk Models with Patient Health Data Public health protects and improves the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations, locally and globally.

Bonus shots of our MS and PhD grads -- thanks Sally Olander!

Congrats Class of 2017 MS & PhD graduates!

Nice explanation by our own Prof. Susan Wei about why the recent finding relating diet soda and dementia may not be significiant: the authors forgot to adjust for multiple comparisons (d'oh!). Way to work with to keep science researchers honest!

Why a 2017 Framingham diet soda study may not be significant. This video was published on the HealthNewsReview.org blog on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017. It is a follow-up to this blog from April 21, 2017: http://www.healthnew...

2016-17 Biostat award winners!

L-R: Patrick Schnell, Nathan Rubin, Katelyn Tessier, Kristine Kubisiak, Yi Yang, Chong Wu, Jason Xu, Carrie Groth, Weihua Guan, & Lifeng Lin

Congrats to all!

Great to have Biostat and the SPH so well-represented at the 2017 St Paul March for Science today!

Final tally for 2017 incoming PhD class: 15 students, biggest in Division history!