Ph.D. candidate Chris McMahan won one of two 2012 Dean's Awards for Excellence in Graduate Study. (Photo)
He has also been named one of 16 Distinguished Graduate Scholars by the Office of Research, as publicized in the spring issue of Breakthrough magazine. He will be a tenure-track assistant professor at Clemson University starting fall 2012, and he will cook the burgers at our department's spring picnic.

Office manager/business manager Tina Ormenisan has won the 2012 College of Arts and Sciences Classified Staff Excellence Award.

The Palmetto Lecturer for 2012 will be Ed George, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School.
Dr. George will visit the Department from April 9-13.
For more information on the Palmetto Lectures and SC-ASA Palmetto Symposium go here.

SRCOS Summer Research Conference 2012 will be held on Jekyll Island, Ga. June 3-6.
Go here for more information.
Sponsored by NSF, ASA, and NISS.

The annual USC alumni get-together at JSM, San Diego, will be held on Tuesday July 31.
Watch this site for details.

Open Positions: Full Professor in High Dimensional Data analysis

Megan (Meece) Mocko (MS 2001) was featured in a Sept. 2011 AmStat News article, "Where Will Your Next Stop Take You?".
Megan is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Florida.
Here is a link to the story (reprinted by permission).

A short course on "Applied Bayesian Nonparametrics" was given in the department on August 22-24
by Tim Hanson and Alejandro Jara, who was visiting from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

We are very pleased to announce that graduate student Bereket Kindo has been awarded an academic scholarship
by the International Association of Black Actuaries Foundation for the 2011-2012 school year. Congratulations Bereket!

Annual Newsletter 2011
The department annual newsletter is now available.