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Peggy Ng has received a Faculty of Science Achievement Award. These awards recognize exceptional contributions of faculty, staff and students. She will receive her award at a reception on May 14, following the usually short end of year Faculty of Science meeting (meeting starts at 2:30), St John's College.

She has won the award for her dedication to the Statistics Department, for her work in developing Department policies and procedures that promote efficiency and fairness,...

Jenny Bryan, Rick White, and Davor Cubranic were awarded a Skylight Development Grant http://www.skylight.science.ubc.ca/devgrants from the Office of the Dean of Science. They will use the funds to assemble a "toolkit" for managing and delivering of data analytic course material.

UBC Statistics Professor Gaby Cohen Freue has received a Canadian Research Chair in Statistical Genomics.  Gaby's special focus is in Proteomics, and her research interests also include robust estimation and inference and the study of linear models with endogeneity.  The federally funded Canada Research Chair program was launched in 2000 as a national strategy to attract and retain top researchers, to make Canada one of the world's top countries in research and development.

Camila Casquilho Resende, PhD student, has been awarded the Wendy Fan Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship has been endowed in memory of Wendy Fan. The award is offered to a student who began graduate study in Science, Applied Science, Medicine or Commerce and Business Administration and who has received his or her undergraduate degree at an institution outside of North America. The award is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.