Statistics Program

• Brittney Bailey
• Katharine Correia
• Kevin Donges
• Nicholas Horton
• Shu-Min Liao
• Pamela Matheson
• Amy S. Wagaman

• Jeff Barton
• Kenneth Mulder

• Isabelle Beaudry
• Maria Gomez
• Martha Hoopes
• Laura Lyman
• Laurie Tupper

• Ben Baumer
• Shiya Cao
• Kaitlyn Cook
• Randi Garcia
• Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia
• Will Hopper
• Albert Kim
• Katherine M. Kinnaird
• Scott LaCombe
• Lindsay Poirier
• Kementari Whitcher

• Leontine Alkema
• Raji Balasubramanian
• Patrick Flaherty
• Krista Gile
• Maryclare Griffin
• Lulu Kang
• Daeyoung Kim
• Ken Kleinman
• Anna Liu
• Haben Michael
• Zhengqing Ouyang
• Jing Qian
• Evan Ray
• Nicholas Reich
• Benjamin Rogers
• Aaron Sarvet
• Carlos Soto
• John Staudenmayer
• Ted Westling
• Nathan Wycoff
• Qian Zhao

Congratulations to the Mt. Holyoke Yokies team (Members: Fannie Fouron, Jade Pham, Kate Khe Hoang, and Linh Nguyen) which took Best in Show at the 2025 Five College DataFest!



(More information can be found here: https://www.science.smith.edu/datafest/) 

Over 190 students pre-registered for the event which took place over the weekend of April 4-6th. After a weekend of working with the data, a total of 33 teams presented their findings to the panels of judges on Sunday. Prizes were awarded to multiple teams (see full list on the website). This was the first year that Mt. Holyoke won the overall Best in Show award, and they will host the DataFest trophy on their campus until next year’s competition!

Every year, the Five College Statistics prize (a book prize) is awarded to students from our various campuses for a range of achievements. This year (2025), the prize was awarded to:

• Amherst College: Lucas Bernstein ‘25, Wendy Espinosa ’25, and Oren Tirschwell ’25
• Hampshire College: Zach Fischer
• Mt. Holyoke College: Giovanna Giuliano, ‘25
• Smith College: Sarah Susnea ’25
• UMass Statistics: Enobong Umoren
• UMass Biostatistics: Jordyn Sullivan `25 

Last year’s award recipients (2024) should also be congratulated. These students were: 

• Amherst College: Bridget Cassata '24 and Selena Hong '24 
• Mt. Holyoke College: Willow Kelleigh, ‘24
• Smith College: Christy Yang ‘25J and Vicky Xu ‘26

(Names reported from records. All institutions had awards.)

Nicholas J. Horton, the Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science) at Amherst College, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Mosteller Statistician of the Year award by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

The award honors individuals from academia, industry, and government who have made exceptional contributions to the field of statistics and who have shown outstanding service to the statistical community, including the Boston Chapter.

Winners of the Five College Statistics award for 2023 are: 

• Amherst: Elizabeth Williamson and Alex Brandfonbrener
• Hampshire: Sabina Iftikhar
• Mt Holyoke: Emily Rosaci
• Smith: Clara Li  and Aushanae Haller
• UMass/Biostatistics: Benjamin Goldberg
• UMass/Statistics: Adira Cohen

Congratulations to all of these students for their excellent work!

Professor Brittney Bailey (Amherst College) was named the recipient of the 2023 Mu Sigma Rho Early Career Undergraduate Impact Award for her dedicated and innovative approaches to support and empower students through her teaching, her leadership of StatFest and The STEM Incubator, and her efforts on behalf of the profession. More information about the award can be found at: https://www.stat.purdue.edu/msr/

Professor Nick Horton, Beitzel Professor of Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College, has been elected as vice president of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Professor Horton's term begins in January 2021; he will serve with ASA president-elect Dionne Price, who will become the first African-American president of the ASA.

Professor Miles Ott, Assistant Professor of Statistical and Data Sciences is the 2021 LGBTQ+ Educator of the Year. This award is given an educator for significant impact on STEM students "through teaching, advocacy, and role modeling."

Congratulations to Professor Ott on this honor!

The Five Colleges had a strong showing in the Fall 2020 Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition, with winners in the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (eUSR), the Undergraduate Statistics Class Project (USCLAP), and the Undergraduate Statistics Research Project (USRESP).

Congratulations to our Fall 2020 competition winners:

• Amelia Tran (Mount Holyoke) - eUSR Best Video Presentation
• Xian Ye, Hannah Snell, Dianne Caravela, and Natalia Iannucci (Smith) - USCLAP First Standing in Intermediate Statistics
• Juliet Ramey-Lariviere, Ivy Chen, and Kathleen Hablutzel (Smith) - USCLAP Honorable Mention in Intermediate Statistics
• Tyler Marshall (Amherst) - USRESP Third Standing

Nicholas Reich, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, recently delivered a series of keynote talks on the topic of COVID-19 forecasting. 

Thank you, Professor Reich, for your continuing contributions to the field of Biostatistics!