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Professor in the Department of Statistics, Deborah Nolan, has been awarded the William R. Kenan, Jr.

Professor in the Department of Statistics, Nicholas Jewell, has won the Berkeley Academic Senates Faculty Service Award.

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Professor Terry Speed has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Professor Bin Yu has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics sec

Peter Bickel will give the COPSS Fisher lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal on August 7th, at 4pm.

Congratulations to Adam Bloniarz, Geno Guerra, Jeff Regier and Ashia Wilson!

Professor Allan Sly has won the Rollo Davidson Prize for 2013, jointly with Eyal Lubetzky.

We are hosting our first industrial alliance conference (BSTARS) on March 11.

Economists Bob Anderson and Stephen Bianchi and Statistician Lisa Goldberg received a Graham Dodd Award of Excellence from the Financial

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Ani Adhikari and Philip Stark are teaching a massive open online course (mooc) starting today. Enrollment: 50,707 as of 2/28/2013!

The Simons institute at UC Berkeley is organizing a program on Big Data in Fall 2013.

Springer has just published the selected works of Peter Bickel.

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has established the Blackwell Lecture, a newly named lecture honoring Prof. David Blackwell.

Prof. Terry Speed has won the 2012 Victoria Prize in Australia.

We invite applications for a position in all areas of Probability and Statistics beginning July 1, 2013.

Berkeley statisticians played a key role in the large ENCODE consortium that determined the function of what was thought to be "junk" DNA