☀️ This summer, Grayson Weavil (BS Student in Statistics) was a Biostatistics Intern at UVA! 🧠 She collaborated with neuroscientists and psychologists to investigate the role of trust in the relationship between social behaviors and negative mental health outcomes.

☀️ This summer, Bukola Emi-Johnson (MS Student in Statistics) interned Syngenta US. 🚜 Bukola created an innovative data dashboard to show insights into grower data throughout the planting season, empowering users to detect interesting patterns that raw numbers wouldn't show.

☀️ This summer, Cassandra Hung (BA Student in Statistics) was an Undergrad Researcher at the Michigan Public Health Big Data Summer Institute (BDSI). 🔬 Cassi and her team investigated associations in lung cancer patients from multiplex imaging data using spatial statistics and clustering.

♣️ Alumna Abby Merk was featured by Wake Forest Magazine about how she's turning poker into a career! Professor Kenneth Kenneth S. Berenhaut, who taught her Probability course, was interviewed. magazine.wfu.edu/2024/08/13/bet…

The Department of Statistical Sciences @ Wake Forest is looking to hire 2⃣ Assistant Teaching Professors to begin July 2025. Want to be part of a dynamic, energetic, department? Apply at academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28140 and learn more @ stats.wfu.edu #SmallDepartmentBigImpact

🎩 Happy first day of classes Wake Forest University! Go Deacs!

🆕 What better way to kick off the school year than with a new publication?? Congrats to Assistant Prof Ciaran Evans and Prof Kenneth Kenneth S. Berenhaut on their recent addition to Intl Journal of Data science and Analytics (Springer Nature).

👋 We want to give a big Wake Stats welcome to Mostafa Shams (PhD Statistics from UNLV), who has joined us as a Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow. Mostafa is teaching Intro Statists and working with Department Chair Rob Erhardt on statistical methods for environmental science.

👋 We have another new hire introduction to make! Meet Noah Gade (PhD Statistics from UVA), who joins us as a new Assistant Professor of Statistics.

Happy first Friday from some of our fabulous M.S. students! 🎉

🗺️ The Spatial and Environmental Statistics in Health (SESH) lab, now in its 2nd year, is co-led by Associate Prof Staci Hepler, Assistant Prof Sarah Lotspeich (She/Her), and Affiliate David Kline. Students and trainees learn to connect coursework to real-world applications in public health.

⚡️ Tomorrow (Tuesday, Sept 10) from 11AM - 12PM, our faculty will be giving "lightning talks" about their research on Zoom. Great opportunity for current Wake undergrads or grads to hear about groundbreaking research! Email [email protected] for details. #SmallDepartmentBigImpact

🎩 We're sharing why we love Wake Stats! Today, Prof Kenneth Kenneth S. Berenhaut discusses why he thinks Wake Forest University, with its teacher-scholar model and student engagement, is unique. #WhyWakeStats #SmallDepartmentBigImpact

🎨 We're sharing why we love Wake Stats! Today, Assistant Prof Sarah Lotspeich (She/Her) shares her recent classroom collaboration with WakerSpace (the community makerspace for Wake Forest University) to bring probability concepts to life. #WhyWakeStats #SmallDepartmentBigImpact

📈 We're sharing why we love Wake Stats! Today, Associate Chair and Associate Professor Staci Hepler discusses how she's looking forward to teaching our Master's level Generalized Linear Models course this year for the first time. #WhyWakeStats #SmallDepartmentBigImpact