Honors

Page under construction Middle Tennessee chapter OfficersPresident: Qingxia “Cindy” ChenPresident-elect: Dandan LiuSecretary: Andrew SpiekerTreasurer: Hakmook KangCouncil of Chapters Representative: Bryan Blette Sections, Special Interest Groups, and more Our graduate program and department members are actively involved with the ASA. In addition to the Biostatistics Graduate Student Association, there are… Read More

Page under construction Our students, alumni, and faculty have been recognized for their work and activities by the wider community. Here is a glimpse of our figurative trophy room. Team Recognition These awards honor projects involving both trainees and faculty. Student/alumni names are in bold.2026 National Institutes of Health… Read More

At the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings, which brought more than five thousand quantitative scientists from around the world to Nashville in early August, Department of Biostatistics faculty, students, alumni, and colleagues were recognized as winners of the American Statistical Association’s Statistical Partnerships Among Academe,… Read More

The 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings are taking place in Nashville, from August 2 through August 7. They are expected to bring together more than five thousand attendees from fifty-two countries (including more than a thousand students). This year’s theme is “Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society.” We are… Read More

Congratulations to associate professor Chris Slaughter on his election to the Academy for Excellence in Education. Dr. Slaughter has been teaching at Vanderbilt University since 2007, after earning his doctorate in public health (DrPH) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Initially serving as an instructor in… Read More

Kaidi Kang has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt University’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction.” Kang, who successfully defended his dissertation earlier this month, has delivered ten invited… Read More

PhD candidate Shengxin Tu has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction” with $2,500 in supplemental funding. Tu is first author of a… Read More