Ernst receives Tweedie New Researcher Award Tue, 02/20/2018 - 07:56

Award widely considered highest honor for excellence in research for early-career statistician.

Statistician, longtime faculty member James Thompson dies Thu, 12/07/2017 - 10:00

Retired in 2016 after 46 years as a member of Rice's faculty, died Dec. 4 at age 79.

Ernst named `Distinguished Teacher' Thu, 03/23/2017 - 08:07

Nicolas Salgo Distinguished Teacher Award is the oldest award given to faculty members at Rice.

Making sense of the 'nonsense correlation' Mon, 10/24/2016 - 07:59

Ernst mathematically confirms Yule’s empirical ‘nonsense correlation’ phenomenon.