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As much of western NC continues to face the impacts of Hurricane Helene’s devastation, learn more about resources available and how the #UNC community can help unc.live/3U0gRo9

I am pleased to announce that the Department of Statistics and Operations Research will be hosting a colloquium on Monday (10/14) featuring Prof. Richard Rimanyi from the Department of Mathematics at UNC-Chapel Hill. #UNC #uncstor

Join us tomorrow (9/26) at 3:30 PM in Hanes Hall 120 for the IDEAS Seminar! Dr. Oanh Nguyen will present her talk, "Random Polynomials: Universality with Dependency." #UNC #uncstor #STOR

🚨We're two weeks out from our second annual Data Science Day, this year focusing on Data Science for Science *and* Society. Plan to join us for a portion of the event or the whole day! ☀️ Agenda: go.unc.edu/dsdagenda Register: go.unc.edu/datascienceday

This morning at Kenan Stadium, hundreds gathered for the 9/11 Memorial Climb, ascending 2,071 stairs to honor the 2,977 lives lost on September 11, 2001. We will never forget. Take a look at the moments from the event unc.live/3XFwROS

The Department of Statistics and Operations Research will be hosting a colloquium on Monday, September 16th featuring Prof. Rick Durrett from Duke University. Prof. Durrett will be presenting his research in a talk that promises to be both insightful and engaging. #UNC #uncstor

🎉 Congratulations to Richard Smith, Mark L. Reed Distinguished Professor of @uncstor, for receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award from Cornell’s Department of Statistics and Data Science. stat.cornell.edu/news/smith-lea… @CornellDSDS

We are so excited to see our students at our first Industry Interview Session! #UNC #STOR

We will hold an industry interview information session on Wednesday, September 11th, at 6:00 pm, in Hanes 115. The event will be hosted by ZA Associates, a management consulting firm specializing in marketing and data analytics for the pharmaceutical industry.

🎨 On August 10th, our team had a blast at our first "staffscursion" at Smashing Art Studio in Sanford, NC! We explored paint pouring, mixing colors, and creating a collaborative masterpiece. Big thanks to Smashing Art Studio for the creative fun!

We are excited to announce an open rank faculty hiring initiative for several positions to bolster research and innovation in the emerging field of #DataScience. 🎓100% SDSS position: go.unc.edu/SDSSOpenRank 🎓All faculty positions: datascience.unc.edu/careers

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On basketball game days at Carolina, Conor Kerr is always close to the action. Kerr, a junior, founded the Sports Analysis Intelligence Laboratory to team up student sports statisticians and athletics at UNC: college.unc.edu/2023/11/conor-…

We are hiring a three-year postdoc starting next July. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required. More info: networks-pods-rtg.unc.edu/2023/11/10/pos…

TODAY: @uncstor is hosting @NCSUStatistics' Marie Davidian for a colloquium, "Every Statistical Problem is a Missing Data/Causal Inference Problem." Join at 3:30 p.m. at Hanes Hall. go.unc.edu/MarieDavidian #DataScienceNow

We have openings for three tenure-track positions in the areas Analytics, Probability, and Data Science (jointly with @UNCSDSS) Check stor.unc.edu/news-item/hiri…

Join us for a STAN town hall 5pm next Wednesday at Gardner 105

STOR Fest, to be held on the UNC Campus from September 17-19, will celebrate our triple-anniversary. As part of the celebration, we are initiating a funding campaign with the goal of raising $100,000 from alumni and friends of the department. give.communityfunded.com/o/unc-chapel-h…

🎉 Congratulations to Kai Zhang, associate professor of statistics and operations research, who has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. @InstMathStat @uncstor

This Saturday we honor Ross Leadbetter. More info at stor.unc.edu/events/leadbet…