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🚨 Grad students! Join us for the Summer Workshop on Computational Social Science! 📆 June 2–6 & 9–10 🧠 Code + theory + community 📍 32 Murphy Hall 📝 Apply now—spots are limited! 🔗 cla.umn.edu/statistics/new… @UMN_HSJMC #CompSocSci #UMN #GradLife #RStats #Python #CLAUMN

Come check us out at Tech Connect 2025. - via #Whova event app

Save the Date! The 2025 IRSA Spring Conference is May 16–17 Experts in statistics, agriculture & the environment will tackle sustainability, climate risks, & more. More information: irsa.umn.edu/2025-conference #IRSAConference #Statistics #Agriculture #Environment #DataScience

📽️ Join us for a special screening of Counted Out on Feb 26 2025! This thought-provoking documentary explores how math shapes our world—from democracy to economic opportunity. Free entry + snacks & refreshments! Register now: eventbrite.com/e/university-o… #CountedOut @CountedOutDoc

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity! The @UMNStatistics & IRSA invite applications for the prestigious Faragher Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship starting Aug. 28 ✅ Competitive salary ✅ Research funding ✅ 1 course/year + research Apply now! 🔗 humanresources.umn.edu/content/find-j… Job ID: 365682

Associate Professor Jie Ding provides leadership for a three-year collaboration between Cisco and the University of Minnesota, partnering academic and industry professionals in a productive and evolving exploration of machine learning.

Researchers: Would you like free expertise from students at the School of Statistics? Apply for IRSA's Summer Statistical Consulting program. Priority will be given to those who apply before May 12. cla.umn.edu/statistics/new…

Alumna Efstathia Bura has been announced co-editor-in-chief of the International Statistical Review, the flagship journal of the International Statistics Institute! 🎉🎉🎉Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉 cla.umn.edu/statistics/new…

Congratulations to statistics alumnus Lingzhou Xue on being elected Fellow of the ASA! 👏👏👏 cla.umn.edu/statistics/new…

This fall we welcomed Dr. Qiuyun Zhu, a new Postdoc fellow, who is excited to collaborate with researchers in the department, advance her research work in the field of AI, and explore the Twin Cities. cla.umn.edu/news-events/st…

Thinking of participating in the Love Data Week Data Visualization Competition? Join the Donuts + Data Viz Hackathon to practice your skills, craft visualizations, drink coffee, and eat donuts. Fri, January 12, 10:00 AM - Noon. Bruininks Hall, Room 330. z.umn.edu/DonutsAndData

The School welcomes a new staff member! cla.umn.edu/statistics/new…

Statistics students, join the Statistics Club for a study session this Wednesday, Nov 29 from 5:00-6:30 PM in Vincent 311. Bring your friends or meet new ones! Snacks will be provided.

Employers: Keep in touch with the talented pipeline of students at the School of Statistics and School of Mathematics. Visit z.umn.edu/SoSCareer for details on November's Quantitative Finance and Statistics Graduate Student Career Event!

Attention CLA faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, postdocs, and researchers! Does your research relate to socioeconomic inequality? Consider submitting an abstract for a brief presentation at CLA's Workshop! Visit z.umn.edu/CLA-DSI for details. @umncla

The CLA Career and Internship Fair is on now! Explore internship, volunteer, and full-time opportunities with employers from a variety of industries who are hiring CLA students and recent alumni (1-3 years after graduation). #CLAalltheway

Meet our newest colleague, @aaron_molstad (PhD ‘17). Molstad combines his love of statistics & biology in his research, where he develops new statistical methods to study cancer and other diseases on the molecular level. cla.umn.edu/statistics/new…

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Hui Zou on being the recipient of the inaugural Dr. Lynn Y.S. Lin Professorship in Statistics! cla.umn.edu/statistics/new…

Welcome, Assistant Professor Tianxi Li! Meet our new colleague and learn what excites him about statistical network analysis and machine learning. Statistics: A Lighthouse in an Ocean of Data cla.umn.edu/statistics/new…

@Ruyuan_Wan Yes! Our online shop is z.umn.edu/shopstats and has lots of great options. 😀

@UMNStatistics Wow, I love the shirt! Is there any way we (alumni) can buy the school of statistics shirts?

UMN Statistics at the MN State Fair! Our students and educators are soaking up the last bit of summer before classes begin next week. 🎡