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Tag: Xiao-Li Meng
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Nation & World
The quote machine
Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.
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2 early vaccination surveys worse than worthless thanks to ‘big data paradox,’ analysts say
As governments and health officials navigate pandemic, researchers stress the danger that comes with bad information.
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An emergency response team for data?
Data science provides a foundation for an important front in the battle against COVID-19. The Harvard Data Science Review, a journal of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, is helping keep data scientists connected and up to date on the latest findings.
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Dench named dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Emma Dench, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics, will become the dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences beginning July 1. Dench will replace Xiao-Li Meng, the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, who was in the post for five years and is stepping down to join the…
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Harvard joins in filing NLRB brief
Harvard joins other private universities in legal brief asking NLRB to keep prior ruling avoiding graduate student unions.
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Seven graduate students awarded prestigious fellowships
Seven students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were awarded Fulbright Fellowships earlier this week. The scholars’ research will take them across the globe — to Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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Opening academia widely
In an effort to dispel the notion that graduate school and careers in academia are generally beyond the reach of minority students, Harvard hosted the second Ivy Plus Symposium.
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Style and substance
The culmination of the Harvard Horizons initiative was a symposium in which eight Ph.D. students each offered five-minute presentations, styled on the popular TED talks, about a specific aspect of their current research.
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Harvard-Asia: Ties deep and broad
Harvard President Drew Faust’s coming trip to South Korea and Hong Kong is framed against a long history of Harvard’s engagement with Asia’s many nations.
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New dean for GSAS
Xiao-Li Meng, chair of Harvard’s Department of Statistics, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Ahead of the learning curve
From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform…
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The lasting lure of logic
Statistics Professor Joseph Blitzstein teaches the art of teaching, while making a complex subject accessible.
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Honoring great teaching
The Harvard Statistics Department’s inaugural David K. Pickard Memorial Lecture highlights the importance of passion, clarity, and accessibility in undergraduate teaching.
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Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
What are the odds? It is statistically improbable that a Harvard teaching award open to all graduate students for the past four years would go to members of the same department. Adding to that improbability is the fact that the department in question is among the smallest at Harvard: Statistics.
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Taking finance up the Red Line
Stephen Blyth, managing director of the Harvard Management Company, doubles as a faculty member in the Statistics Department, bringing real-world financial acumen to studying numbers.
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Cochran at 100
The Harvard Statistics Department marked the centennial birth year of one of its founding members, William Gemmell Cochran, with a symposium celebrating his landmark scholarship.
