Getting ready for the Department yearly picnic event... 😆

Dr. Patrick Monahan, Professor of Biostatistics at IU, led a team on SymTrak study that is promising to advance clinicians toward next generation of population health management. Congratulations Patrick! eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…

Congratulations to Jing Li on winning the Charlie Sampson & Mir Ali Poster Award in the 2019 Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop! Way to go, Jing! mbswonline.com/?page_id=49

Congratulations to Philani on successfully defending his dissertation on “Statistical Methods for Dealing with Outcome Misclassification in Studies With Competing Risks Survival Outcomes”! Go Dr. Mpofu and best wishes to all your future endeavors! Thumb up to the advisors too!

Top marks for department staff, Steve Brown, Greg Puetz, and Larry Riggen for their great work developing the API Token Vault for REDCap! itnews.iu.edu/articles/2019/…

Multiple Faculty Openings: check the images for more information. Apply at indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/8867.

Wonderful work by PhD student, Yifei Zhang! He came in second place in the Poster Competition at the 2019 NIC-ASA and ICSA Midwest Joint Fall Meeting.

Bravo to Jing Li for successfully defending her dissertation on “Nonparametric Analysis of Semi-Competing Risks Data”! Best wishes to Dr. Li in all of your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Jun Park for successfully defending his dissertation on "Semiparametric Regression Under Left-Truncated and Interval-Censored Competing Risks Data and Missing Cause of Failure"!

The Biostatistics Department helped IU School of Medicine reach record heights in funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2019, receiving $189 million! Biostatistics in particular jumped to an NIH ranking of 9th in the nation increasing funding by $1 million in 2019!

medicine.iu.edu/blogs/indiana-… Great work from the Biostatistics Department in the fight against coronavirus

#seminar SLOPE – Adaptive Variable Selection via Convex Optimization, Dr. Malgorzata Bogdan, Friday 1-2pm, HITS 1110.

Seven Poles of wisdom :)

A new paper by PhD student Zangdong He and his co-authors just appears in Biometrics. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bi…

#seminar "Brain imaging, wearable computing and all that jazz. What have I learned during my sabbatical?" Dr. Harezlak, Fri1-2pm, HITS 1110

#seminar "Trajectories of Functional Limitations after Injury in the U.S. Older Adult Population" Dr. Teresa Bell, Friday 1-2pm, HITS 1110

Our department is participating in a major concussion study funded by NCAA and DoD. wthr.com/story/27357390…