Surgery to remove a part of the brain to give relief to patients with epilepsy doesn’t always result in complete seizure relief, but statisticians at Rice University have developed a method for integrating neuroimaging scans to identify patients at high risk of continued seizures before the surgery takes place.
James R. Thompson, Noah Harding Emeritus Professor of Statistics, who was a statistician at Rice University before there was a statistics department, and who retired last year after 46 years as a member of the faculty, died Dec. 4 at age 79.
In the wake of Harvey’s devastation, Rice used data science to respond to a crisis and provide support for the Rice community.
Rice University, as part of its $150 million investment in research excellence, intends to hire multiple tenure-track faculty members with a research focus in data science.
Rice engineers are part of PATHS-UP, a new center established by the National Science Foundation to develop technologies that help alleviate suffering from diabetes and heart disease in underserved communities in the United States and around the world.
Emma Zohner, a second-year doctoral student in statistics at Rice University, is one of 12 recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2017.
Two new faculty members, Meng Li and Daniel Kowal, have joined the Department of Statistics as of July 1, 2017.
Marek Kimmel is co-author of an article in an August 2017 issue of Nature that takes issue with the findings of an earlier study on the contribution of extrinsic risk factors to cancer development.
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