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Joanna Wang standing in front of a building in Florence, Italy

Not just a vacation in Italy Friday, Jan. 20, 2023

Statistics senior Joanna Wang reflects on being the first Rice student on exchange program at University of Florence.


Rousseeuw Prize on black background

Behind-the-scenes of the Rousseeuw Prize Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022

Rice statistician David Scott serves as juror on international selection committee for Nobel-sized prize.


Frederi Viens

Frederi Viens joins Department of Statistics as professor Thursday, Jun. 30, 2022

Expert in stochastic finance and actuarial mathematics comes to Rice from Michigan State University.


Marek Kimmel headshot

Kimmel becomes Elected Member of ISI Friday, Jun. 17, 2022

Based in The Hague, International Statistical Institute has more than 4,000 members worldwide.


Philip Ernst

Ernst earns promotion to full professor with tenure Tuesday, May. 17, 2022

Statistics professor is among six Rice Engineering faculty members to be promoted in 2022.