Colorado State University

Graduate student Sierra Pugh has won a Best Student Paper award by the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association for her paper, “A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Estimating Age-Specific COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rates in Developing Countries.” Sierra will present her work at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto this August. Her paper is a joint work with her mentor, Dr. Bailey Fosdick. Congratulations, Sierra!

Statistics graduate student Danielle Demateis has been named a Sustainability Leadership Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year. She will participate in the leadership program through the School of Global Environmental Sustainability at CSU. Her work focuses on understanding the environmental factors that influence health. Read more here.

Professor Dan Cooley has been elected as a  Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Every year, this honor is bestowed on up to one one-third of one percent of the total association membership. Professor Cooley has been elected in recognition of leadership and work in extreme value theory and modeling of multivariate extremes, for substantive contributions to the atmospheric and environmental sciences, and for distinguished statistics leadership on committees addressing climate change.

In addition to the election as an ASA Fellow, Professor Cooley received the 2023 ENVR Distinguished Achievement Award from the Environmental Statistics section of the ASA. This award is given to one or two researchers every year. Professor Cooley was recognized for methodological innovation in the field of extreme value analysis, especially for pioneering work in spatial extremes; for leadership in advancing research that bridges the domains of statistics and climate science and for exemplary outreach and mentoring activities.

Each year, the Colorado State University Alumni Association awards a graduating senior with the Albert C. Yates Leadership Award. The award is given in honor of Albert C. Yates who served as the 12th President of CSU from 1990-2003 and who brought strength and unity to CSU through his leadership and commitment to community. The award is meant to recognize a student who “demonstrates strong involvement, leadership, and a commitment to upholding CSU’s values, traditions, and spirit.” There is no better example of this set of values than this year’s recipient – Statistics major Ellie Martinez (B.S., ’23).

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The Colorado State University Department of Statistics launched a brand-new summer research program last year that offered 10 structured, undergraduate research projects to students in the department. The first iteration of the program culminated on April 20th, 2023, at Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity (CURC), an annual university-wide symposium honoring undergraduates’ work, where the participating statistics students presented their research findings.

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Professor Piotr Kokoszka and Professor Emeritus Peter Brockwell have been listed as the only CSU researchers with 2022 Mathematical Sciences D-index over 30. The list is compiled by means of an AI algorithm that uses bibliometric data.

Piotr Kokoszka has made contributions to several areas of statistics, mostly to time series analysis and functional data analysis. Peter Brockwell has worked on the theory of stochastic processes and time series analysis. Both are co-authors of research monographs and textbooks.

The Department of Statistics at Colorado State University invites applications for two Administrative Professional Research Associate statistical and/or data science collaborator positions in the Graybill Statistics & Data Science Laboratory within the Department of Statistics.

For the Administrative Professional Research Associate II position, click here.

For the Administrative Professional Research Associate III position, click here.

Preferred qualifications include: Three years of experience in applied/collaborative statistics and/or data science; Demonstrated experience to communicate, written and orally, technical topics to non-technical audiences; and collaborative proposal writing experience, especially related to study design and proposed analysis. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but for full consideration, materials should be submitted by March 26, 2023. CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates.