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👏 Last Friday, Nikolas Lindauer successfully defended his M.S. thesis in Statistics at @WakeForest! Congratulations to Nikolas and his incredible advisor, @StatStaci5, on an impact-driven project that showcased the stats while keeping North Carolinians' health at the forefront.

One of the coolest mascots in the country comes from the smallest school in the ACC... It's Wake Forest! The Demon Deacons have such a rich history of not only football players, but athletes from every sport! Thank you Coach Dickert and @WakeFB for this awesome box!

In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these…

👏 We are so excited to welcome @BhramarBioStat to @WakeForest/@wakeforestmed this week for our 3rd Annual Distinguished Lectureship in Statistics and Biostatistics! Faculty and students can't wait to hear about "The Importance of Statistical Thinking in an AI-Augmented World."

🔥 Hot take: @wsfcs teachers should not be required to use personal days or take a day without pay on snow days. It’s like we want there to be a teacher shortage. If we can’t pay our teachers more can we at least treat them better?!

🎉 New week, new pub! The first 2025 issue of Biostatistics feat. work by @WakeForest Stats! Eva Murphy (Teacher-Scholar Postdoc), David Kline (Affiliate Faculty), and @StatStaci5 (Assoc Chair/Assoc Prof) propose understanding the opioid syndemic through factor modeling.

🗺️ @StatStaci5 (Associate Chair/Associate Prof) and @dm_kline (Affiliate Faculty) proposed using space + time modeling to estimate Valley fever prevalence. They collaborated with researchers from @LosAlamosNatLab.

🖐️ There are five days left to apply to our M.S. in Statistics program at @WakeForest ! Our teacher-scholar faculty would love to review your apps to join our small, collaborative program with thesis/non-thesis routes, generous funding opps, optional data science cert, and more!

🎙️ Today at 2:15 PM (Pacific) Dr. Eva Murphy (Teacher-Scholar Postdoc) will be presenting work using Bayesian dynamic spatial factor models to understand the opioid syndemic at #ICHPS2025. See more 👇

🎙️ Today at 2:50 PM (Pacific) Dr. @SarahLotspeich (Assistant Prof) will be presenting on work at the intersection of her interests in electronic health records (EHR), measurement error, and health disparities at #ICHPS2025. See more 👇

🎉 Wake Stats is kicking off the new year strong! We are heading to San Diego for the 2025 ICHPS (@AmstatNews). @SarahLotspeich (Assistant Prof), Eva Murphy (Postdoc), @StatStaci5 (Associate Chair), and @dm_kline (Affiliate Faculty) will be presenting. Stay tuned for details!

😍 What an incredible setting for a conference! Thanks for bringing me to San Diego, @AmstatNews! Can’t wait for my first ICHPS.

Regular registration for ICHPS 2025 ends Dec 5th! You don't want to miss this fantastic program featuring a keynote by Whitney Robinson, PhD from Duke University School of Medicine. Susan Paddock will serve as discussant. bit.ly/ICHPS2025

👏 Shout out to Assistant Professor Leo Cello and Teacher-Scholar Postdoc Eva Murphy, who represented Wake Stats at the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC) last month at @UNCG.

🚨ICHPS 2025 is just 2 months away! But don't worry, there's still time to register. You definitely don't want to miss this fantastic program featuring a keynote by @sherrirose! bit.ly/ICHPS2025

Another year of the Chicago Marathon massively fumbling its TV and streaming coverage of a good race featuring top American women. Absurd.

⏰Session 48 "Infection Insights: Women's Contributions to Infectious Disease Modeling" is starting now for #IDWSDS2024! We have four incredible speakers from @umichsph, @WakeForestStats, and @EmoryRollins.

🎉 Today marks the 3rd annual International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science. The women of @WakeForest Stats embrace this year's theme of "empowering the next generation" daily! We're excited to celebrate women around the world and grateful to @cwstat for organizing!

The application deadline for the @uofscstatistics Statistics PhD program is January 15! There is no application fee for the 2024-2025 cycle. Great academic placements at both research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions. Apply if you're interested!

🏆 Wake Stats took home first place yesterday at "Hit the Bricks!" They ran the most laps and raised over $960 for cancer research. This department runs models AND miles! #SmallDepartmentBigImpact