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As Fall 2016 winds to a close, UC Berkeley’s Data Science education program reached new heights and is poised for further growth in 2017. Approximately 500 students enrolled this semester in the entry-level course, Foundations of Data Science, and hundreds more in connector courses spanning topics ranging from neuroscience to media studies.

We invite applications for a pool of part-time, non-tenure track lecturer positions. 

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With diverse research backgrounds and experiences, the new fellows will help lead our community in driving data science innovations and enhancing collaborations across UC Berkeley and beyond.

Professor Ching-Shui Cheng has been elected Member of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) as one of the new 2016 Academicians. From the announcement:

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Tamara Broderick received two awards at the 2016 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) that took place in June 2016 in Sardinia. ISBA is the largest scientific society devoted to the development and promotion of Bayesian methods and their analysis.

Ryan Lovett, SCF Systems Administration Manager has been selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Staff Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in support of the educational and research mission of the campus.

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Steve Evans was one of six UC Berkeley faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year. From the article:

Laura Slakey, the MSO of the Statistics Department, was selected to receive an Excellence in Management 2015-2016 award from the Berkeley Staff Assembly committee. Congratulations Laura! Here is the opening paragraph from the staff's nomination packet:

Congratulations to our PhD students Stephanie DeGraaf, Billy Fang and Chelsea Zhang who have all been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships! The NSF GRFP program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.

Congratulations to Rebecca Barter and Shamindra Shrotriya for winning the Geisinger Health Collider Project! From the article:

Department researcher Chris Paciorek was one of 10 members on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that considered the state of the science in determining the degree to which extreme weather and climate events are influenced by climate change.

More details including a free download of the committee's report, released March 11, can be found here:

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Jordan has worked on ideas that span computer science and statistics. The two fields have historically proceeded along separate paths, but he sees them as natural allies. "Big Data," he says, "is the phenomenon that has drawn them together."

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Yu and her team had to analyze a torrent of fMRI data to identify from thousands of movie clips the 100 frames that most likely matched a given voxel activity pattern. They then “averaged” these shapes to yield the outline of what the subjects were seeing.

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Dr. Nielsen and his colleagues are planning to investigate the long-term health effects of the gene variants they’ve found. They may help explain why some of us metabolize fats more effectively than others, and why omega-3s haven’t been the heart panacea once hoped.

Professor Stark's urban foraging expeditions have been featured in numerous news outlets.

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