Each fall the Department awards two prizes to graduate students.
- The Z.W. Birnbaum award, instituted in 1986 in honor of our distinguished emeritus professor, recognizes the graduate student who gives the outstanding general exam during the past year.
- The Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award, instituted in 1992 in honor of the first Statistics Master's student, recognizes outstanding performance by a graduate teaching assistant during the past year.
| Year | Z.W. Birnbaum Recipient(s) | Dorothy M. Gilford Teaching Award Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-2019 | Hannah Director & Sean Jewell | Jessica Perry |
|
2017-2018 2016-2017 |
Qiyang Roy Han & Luca Weihs |
Wesley Lee Anne Wagner |
| 2015-2016 | W. Chad Young | Rebecca Ferrell & Alec Greaves-Tunnell |
| 2014-2015 | Jason Xu | Corinne Jones & Kyle Lo |
| 2013-2014 | David Gerard | Amrit Dhar |
| 2012-2013 | Roddy Theobald | James Harmon & Laina Mercer |
| 2011-2012 | Bailey Fosdick | Jonathan Azose |
| 2010-2011 | Dominique Perrault-Joncas | Bailey Fosdick |
| 2009-2010 | Le Bao | Roddy Theobald |
| 2008-2009 | Arseni Seregin & Will Kleiber | Shaun White & Gail Potter |
| 2007-2008 | Roopesh Ranjan & Yanming Di | Ryan Admiraal & Mark Wheldon |
| 2006-2007 | Larissa Stanberry | Assaf Oron |
| 2005-2006 | Veronica Berrocal | Linqiu Wu |
| 2004-2005 | Qunhua Li & Debashis Mondal | Caroline Cutting & Albert Kim |
| 2003-2004 | Raphael Gottardo & Marloes Maathuis | Amanda Cox & Krista Gile & J. McLean Sloughter |
| 2002-2003 | Fadoua Balabdaoui & Mathias Drton | Veronica Berrocal |
| 2001-2002 | Amy Anderson & Solly Sieberts | Rebecca Nugent |
| 2000-2001 | Shuguang Song | Dana Coe & Kevin Connely |
| 1999-2000 | Daniela Golinelli | Amy Anderson & Anton Westveld |
| 1998-1999 | Greg Ridgeway | Erin Sullivan |
| 1997-1998 | Nilanjan Chatterjee | Tracy Glass |
| 1996-1997 | Ying Zhang & Sylvain Sardy | |
| 1995-1996 | Chris Volinsky | Ingo Ruczinski |
| 1994-1995 | Dean Billheimer | Simon Byers |
| 1993-1994 | Wendy Meiring | Craig Aumann |
| 1992-1993 | Geof Givens | Chris Volinsky |
| 1991-1992 | Shili Lin | Paul Nakayu |
| 1990-1991 | Jens Praestgaard | |
| 1989-1990 | James Hughes | |
| 1988-1989 | Michael Newton | |
| 1987-1988 | Charlie Geyer | |
| 1985-1986 | John Michalak |
For recent faculty awards see: News