Our Story

Learn all about our beginnings, our growth, and our journey to becoming a world-class Department of Statistics & Data Science.

The history through 2011, compiled by Margaret Smylka, appears in Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S., A. Agresti and X.-L. Meng, eds., pp. 9-26, Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013. The compilation of a history from 2011 to the present by faculty and staff is underway, and will appear as an addendum to the history posted here.