News: Statistics and Data Sciences

A staged alert system, designed by scientists and public health officials to guide local policies, helped one city prevent hospital surges and long lockdowns.

Laura Lashinger and Sally Ragsdale received awards recognizing the university’s educational innovators who demonstrate exceptional undergraduate teaching in the core curriculum.

Having all people in the U.S. tested on a regular, rotating basis can likely slow the spread of the novel coronavirus and the loss of...

Transmission rates and community immunity can determine when and whether to scale back testing frequency

See the new faces at the College of Natural Sciences.

Graduate and undergraduate students are jumping into research fighting the pandemic.

Sites use hospitalization data and more to predict how the pandemic is progressing in 22 different areas across Texas.

An epidemiologist and two molecular bioscientists get to the bottom of your burning COVID-19 questions.

Thousands of patients who thought they had the flu actually had COVID-19 and spread it in the early days of the pandemic.

Epidemiologists develop framework to help policymakers determine which data to track and when to take action to protect their communities.