Poster Competition
Poster Competition 2026: Posters must be submitted (or at least postmarked) by March 27, 2026. Winners will be notified by May 4, 2026.
Published March 14, 2026
DataFEST
DataFEST 2026: The weekend of March 27–29; the event starts 5 pm, Friday and will conclude by 5 pm, Sunday.
Published March 14, 2026
Statistics Career Day
The Statistics Department held Statistics Career Day on Monday, November 17, 2025, on Grand Valleys campus in Allendale, MI.
Published February 4, 2026
Craig Johnson
The co-authorship / scholarship (and citations) by Craig Johnson, one of the original biostats grads of 2008 and undergrad stats alum of 2007
Published February 4, 2026
Statistics major starts tech buy-back firm
Statistics major starts tech buy-back firm. Dan VanderMeer is a statistics major who has dedicated himself to a startup business called GR Tech Swap.
Business Economics Entrepreneurship Statistics
Published January 30, 2026
Digital Yearbook
Our graduates have worked hard through their career at Grand Valley. Please join us in browsing our virtual yearbook and recognizing their achievements.
Published April 25, 2024
What Is Statistics?
Statistics is the art and science of gathering, organizing, analyzing and drawing conclusions from data. And without rudimentary knowledge of how it works, people can't
Published February 22, 2024
2023 Statistics Career Day Report
The GVSU Statistics Department hosted Statistics Career Day on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023 in the Grand River Room of the Kirkhof Center.
Published December 1, 2023
GVSU Statistics Alumni Panel
Five statistics department alumni spoke about the job search process and their personal experiences working in statistics.
Published January 26, 2023
2022 MICHIGAN STATISTICS POSTER COMPETITION WINNERS
View the winners from the 2022 Michigan Statistics Poster Competition - an annual event where K-12 teachers throughout Michigan send their students' posters to GVSU.
Published June 9, 2021
Grand Valley Statistics Dept Facebook
Welcome to the new Statistics Facebook page! Be sure to Like and Follow us so you can keep up with the latest events and professor news!
Published January 17, 2019
Alumna improves guest experiences at Disney through statistics
Elizabeth "Biz" Stolz's job is to make "the most magical place on Earth" that much more magical.The 2014 alumna currently works as an experience insights senior analyst at Disney Parks and Resorts in Orlando, Florida.
Published December 22, 2018
Pharmaceutical Quality by Design Using JMP®: Solving Product Development and Manufacturing Problems by Rob Lievense
Pharmaceutical Quality by Design Using JMP®: Solving Product Development and Manufacturing Problems provides broad-based techniques available in JMP to visualize data and run statistical analyses for areas common in healthcare product manufacturing.
Published November 1, 2018
GVSU BIOSTATISTICS MASTERS STUDENTS FINISH SECOND IN AN INTERNATIONAL ANALYTICS COMPETITION
GVSU Biostatistics Masters students Kayla Hawkins and Joe Lorenz (mentored by Biostatistics Director Dr. Robert Downer) recently finished second in an international analytics competition involving sixty teams.
Published April 24, 2018
Justin Sjogren, MS Manager, Biostatistics
Mr. Justin Sjogren has nearly a decade of experience in the pharmaceutical industry providing statistical consulting and analysis programming with expertise in regulatory submissions and product defense.
Published October 24, 2017
Brandy Pitcher
Our grads are doing great work in many areas of applied statistics in Michigan and elsewhere. As an example, see the story of Brandy Pitcher, GVSU biostatistics alum (2010). Click to read more: Biostatistics Graduate Finds Success at Duke University
Published March 14, 2017