Department of Statistics
Monday, February 8, 2021
A pair of Pitt graduate students have parleyed their data science expertise and football knowledge into a win in the National Football League’s annual Big Data Bowl. They’re among eight winning teams that will present their solutions for evaluating defensive player performance to the NFL.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Friday, February 28, 2020
The student-led Pitt Green Fund helped launch the campus thrift store and bicycle co-op, but its board also tackles efforts related to equity and social justice.
Monday, December 9, 2019
Barry Mitnick’s undergraduate honors business history course, Market Manipulations: Crises, Bubbles, Robber Barons and Corporate Saints, has been recognized with the Aspen Institute’s 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award—one of only 10 courses worldwide to be selected.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Pitt plans to purchase 100 percent of the power from a low-impact hydroelectric plant to be built on the Allegheny River. The facility, expected to open in 2022, will generate enough power to supply a quarter of the Pittsburgh campus electricity needs.
