Congratulations, Class of 2025!

Congratulations to our 73 new undergraduate alums on their achievements at Duke! We honored several for their contributions to the department, including 13 graduates with distinction who completed a year-long research project culminating in a senior thesis.  The BEST Award, reflecting the role and impact of Bayesian methodology and its application, was won by Jordan Hamelsky for her thesis “Identifying Sociodemographic, Spatial, and Geographic Factors in Durham Associated with Incarceration Using Hierarchical Modeling” and Jerry Yin for “Marginal Likelihood-Based Tree Sampling in Bayesian Phylogenetics.” Avery Hodges was named TA of the Year, with Matthew O’Donnell and Athena Ru receiving honorable mention. Graduating students who served as Statistical Science Majors Union officers include Amy Buckalew, Matthew Goldberg, and Anya Chabria.  We also appreciate our senior major ambassadors, Anya Chabria, Shelby Tisdale, and Adway Wadekar.