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Congratulations to Prof Marian Scott who has been awarded the Royal Statistical Society’s Barnett Award for

"her outstanding, pioneering research into the application of innovative statistical techniques to environmental issues. Internationally recognised, Marian’s impactful work delivers statistically sound evidence supporting environmental science, policy, regulation and management in areas ranging from radioactivity, water quality to air pollution. Her interdisciplinary work at the interface between statisticians, environmental scientists and policy makers has had a major influence on a range of environmental agencies and organisations. Marian was awarded an OBE for services to science in 2009."

Details were released on Statslife and you can read more by clicking here [external link].

Congratulations Marian!

Congratulations to Prof Dirk Husmeier who has been awarded an RSE/Scottish Government Sabbatical Research grant by the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). The focus of Dirk's sabbatical year is translational research aiming to bring mathematical modelling and statistical inference into the clinic.

Dirk explained:

"Our School has made impressive progress in the mathematical modelling of the mechanical processes in the heart, and a recent study conducted in our School has provided clear evidence that the underlying biomechanical parameters have real diagnostic value for prognostication of myocardial infarction (heart attack). However, the estimation of these parameters non-invasively from magnetic resonance images is computationally expensive and can take several weeks. One of the key goals of my research is to use statistical emulation to substantially reduce the computational costs and work towards a clinical decision support system that can make prognostications in real time. One of the particular challenges of this research is to find a low-dimensional representation of the left ventricle of the heart. I will further work on systematically correcting the potential bias that may result when a clinician prescribes medical interventions based on and interfering with the predictions from an automatic decision support system."

The SRC Student Teaching Awards

Every year the Student’s Representative Council hosts the Student Teaching Awards (aka the STAs), a fantastic chance to recognise the outstanding work of those members of staff who have gone above and beyond to make our students’ time here at Glasgow the best it can possibly be!

We are pleased to announce that three of our staff members made the shortlist for the SRC Student Teaching Awards 2019. Dr Sira Gratz was nominated in the category of “Best College Teacher Science and Engineering”, Mr Ray Guffie was nominated in the category of “Best Support Staff” and Dr Mike Whittaker was nominated in the category of “Best Advisor of Studies”. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday 21st March and although no-one from the School clinched the top prize we'd like to thank the nominees for their efforts and contributions to the School in these roles.

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First published: 25 March 2019