Putting New Spark In Research Computing
Beginning last year, Duke OIT’s Mark McCahill started working with Apache Spark as a resource for students in the Statistical Computing and Computation (STA663) class taught by Cliburn Chan and Jan
Warren Kibbe, PhD To Join B&B Faculty
The B&B Department is pleased to announce that Warren Kibbe, PhD, acting deputy director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and director of the NCI’s Center for Biomed
B&B Faculty And Researchers Publish And Present Reviews On Design And Analysis Methods For Group-Randomized Trials
Liz Turner, PhD, John Gallis, Sc.M, and Fan Li, Ph.D student, recently co-authored a two-part review series focusing on methodological developments in the design and analysis of gr
Faculty Michael Pencina Senior Author On JAMA Article On Statin Guidelines
Guidelines differ greatly on the use of statins to prevent cardiovascular disease by the U.S.
Faculty Yi-Ju Li Publishes In Nature Communications
B&B Faculty Yi-Ju Li is one of three senior and corresponding authors for an article “Genome-wide association study identifies three novel loci in Fuchs endothelial cor
Biostats Students Compete In 2017 ASA DataFest
The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest is a nationally coordinated data analysis competition where teams of up to five students have a weekend to attack a large, compl
Megan Neely Selected For 2017 Gordon G. Hammes Faculty Teaching Award
Megan Neely, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, has been chosen to receive the 2017 Gordon G. Hammes Faculty Teaching Award. Dr.
B&B Faculty Play Key Roles In Health Data Science Event At Duke
On March 20, researchers across campus came together to celebrate recent advances and partnerships in health data science at Duke.
StatGen Welcomes Duke Researchers To Its New Home In MSRB I
The Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics (StatGen) hosted a widely attended Open House in late February to introduce the Duke Community to its mission and location. T