News

Carlos Bustamante has been appointed to the Provost Search Committee. The committee will recommend, from within the Cornell community, a successor to Carolyn (Biddy) Martin.

Cornell Chronicle

Congratulations to Rob Strawderman on receiving the Harvard Biostatistics 2008 Distinguished Alumni award.

Harvard School of Public Health

It is with great sadness that the department announces the death of faculty professor Walter Federer. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. An obituary may be found at:

Cornell Chronicle

The Ithaca Journal

The department sadly announces the death of faculty member Scott Williamson. Scott's promising career was cut short by a brain tumor; our thoughts are with his family and friends. An obituary may be found at:

Cornell Chronicle

The Ithaca Journal

Carlos Bustamante lab has another Nature paper! This time finding Europeans have more harmful genetic variants than Africans.

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Giles Hooker's read paper for the Royal Statistical Society appears:

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Carlos Bustamante and Scott Williamson are published in PLoS Genetics on recent human evolution.

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant Professor Adam Siepel has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Carlos Bustamante and Scott Williamson are published in PLoS Genetics on the evolution of white rice.

Cornell Chronicle

Carlos Bustamante is published in Nature on genes determining dog body size.

Cornell Chronicle