Minnesota Biostatistics
The Division of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota is one of the premier biostatistics units in the United States, focusing on the critical statistical methods employed in biomedical research.
The division includes 36 faculty members, about 75 graduate students (MPH, MS, and PhD), and 65 staff members.
Wei Pan wins 'Best Paper in Biometrics'
Wei Pan
Professor Wei Pan and co-authors Benhuai Xie and Xiaotong Shen won the "Best Paper in Biometrics by an IBS Member" for their paper, "Incorporating Predictor Network in Penalized Regression with Application to Microarray Data." The paper was published in the June 2010 issue of Biometrics. IBS is the International Biometric Society.
Xie, who graduated in 2008 with a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Minnesota, is a former student of Pan's. Shen, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Statistics, collaborates frequently with Pan.
The award is given by the IBS biennially to one Biometrics paper from each of the previous two years identified by the co-editors as being of the highest quality and importance.
The award will be presented at the International Biometric Conference (IBC), which will be held in Kobe, Japan, Aug. 26-31, 2012.
Biostatistics Open House Fall 2011
If you were unable to attend the Oct. 7 Biostat Open House, you can watch the opening presentation video — about why you should choose the University of Minnesota — by clicking on the video above.
Watch a video of Brad Carlin discussing his book: "Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials"
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Honors & Awards
Banerjee wins APHA award
Sudipto Banerjee has won the 2011 Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association. This award, given annually since 1970, is presented to the nation's most outstanding public health statistician under the age
of 40.
Already the author of more than 60 refereed articles, Sudipto was recognized for pathbreaking contributions in four areas related to spatial and environmental statistics (wombling, coregionalization, spatially varying coefficients, and predictive processes). The committee also acknowledged his leadership and strong success in external funding, PhD supervision, short course instruction, software development, and journal editing and refereeing.
Cheers to Outstanding Biostat Instructors
SPH students and Educational Policy Committee members have marked SPH faculty members as outstanding on teaching evaluations in the MPH core.
Each of the following faculty members received an overall score of 5.0 (excellent) or above for their spring semester courses.
- Ann Brearley: PUBH 6414, Biostatistical Methods I
- Cynthia Davey: PUBH 6414, Biostatiscal Methods I
- William Thomas: PUBH 6451, Biostatistics II
- Susan Telke: PUBH 6415, Biostatistical Methods II
Contact Information
for Biostatistics
Major Coordinator: Sally Olander
Phone: (612) 625-9185
E-mail: brown198@umn.edu
Admissions Chair
bstadmit@umn.edu
Director of Graduate Studies
bstdgs@umn.edu
