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Farjat’s work featured by the ASA

Application of New Statistical Method Shows Promise in Mitigating Climate Change Effects on Critical Pine Plantations in Southern US. On Earth Day, 2017, the dissertation...

Wei receives ENVR honorable mention

Jennifer Wei has won Honorable Mention in the 2017 ASA-ENVR Student Paper Competition. Jennifer’s paper entitiled “Sparse Bayesian Nonparametric Regression with Application to Health Effects...

Grantham wins ENAR and ENVR awards

Neal Grantham has won the 2017 ENAR Distinguished Paper Award and 2017 ASA-ENVR Awards. Neal’s paper entitiled “A Hierarchical Bayesian Mixed-Effects Model for High-Dimensional Microbiome...

Guan wins ENAR and HSPP award

Qian Guan has won the 2017 ENAR Distinguished Paper Award and the 2017 ASA-HPSS Award. Qian’s paper entitiled “A Principled Policy-Optimized Bayesian Nonparametric Formulation of...

Reich funded by the Gates Foundation

A spatiotemporal recommendation engine for malaria control In collaboration with researchers from UNC, we will develop and disseminate a recommender system for spatiotemporal resource allocation...