Biostatistics Admitted Student Experience
March 20-21, 2026
On-Campus Admitted Student Experience
Friday, March 20
1:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
School of Public Health
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Biostatistics Community Trivia Hour
- "Look to Michigan Biostatistics" Student Research Showcase
- Social event with current students
Saturday, March 21
9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
School of Public Health
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Degree program information sessions
- Student experience panel
- Faculty interactions & research roundtables
- School of Public Health building tour
The Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan is excited to welcome to Ann Arbor its newest cohort of potential future Wolverines to the 2026 Biostatistics Admitted Student Experience (BASE).
Over the course of two exciting days, admitted students will have the opportunity to:
- Meet members of the Michigan Biostatistics community including students, faculty and staff
- Learn more about the field of Biostatistics, our department, the University and Ann Arbor
- Learn about research being conducted by our community, including presentations by faculty members and current students
- Engage with a student panel to answer your questions about life in the department and in Ann Arbor
- Sit down with faculty for one-on-one or small group conversations
- And much more!
We look forward to meeting you for Biostatistics Admitted Student Day!
Event registration will close on Friday, March 13.
Virtual admitted student experience
DATE AND TIME TBA
Details on a virtual admitted student day will be announced in the near future.
Virtual Schedule of Events:
A full schedule of events will be announced in early 2026.
In-Person Schedule of Events:
Friday, March 20
| Time | Event | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Biostatistics Community Trivia Hour (admitted students are welcome to join current students, faculty, staff, postdocs for this event!) | |
| 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | “Look to Michigan Biostatistics” Student Research Showcase | Current Michigan Biostatistics Students |
| 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Social Event at Coratti's Pizzareia Bar & Bocce for Admitted Students, Research Presenters, and Admitted Student Weekend Volunteers |
Saturday, March 21
| Time | Event | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Check-In and Breakfast | |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. | Welcome Message | Veera Baladandayuthapani, PhD Department Chair |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. | Program, Admissions, and Curriculum Information Sessions |
Mousumi Banerjee, PhD Sebastian Zoellner, PhD |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Life as a Michigan Biostatistics Student Question & Answer Session with Current Students |
Current Student Panel |
| 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Individual and/or Small-Group Meetings with Faculty | Faculty Members |
| 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Concurrent 30-Minute Topic-Specific Faculty Group Roundtable Discussions (Topics TBD) | Faculty Members |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks | Faculty & Program Representatives |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | School of Public Health Building Tour | Current Students |
About our Research
Biostatistics faculty and students are conducting cutting-edge research in bioinformatics, imaging, longitudinal data, missing data, survival analysis, statistical genetics, and many other areas.
We are involved in a wide range of collaborative research activities with faculty in the schools of public health, medicine, nursing, dentistry, and the U-M Institute for Social Research, among others. Both our methodological and collaborative research are well-funded through grants from the National Institutes of Health and other government and private agencies.
Biostatistics student, Tian Gu
Dr. Mousumi Banerjee discusses her research
Dr. Baladandayuthapani discusses his research
Dr. Peter Song discusses his COVID-19 research
About our Department
The Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health is rated as one of the nation's top biostatistics programs by U.S. News & World Report. We bring biostatistical design and analysis expertise to a wide spectrum of health-related issues. Our faculty, students, and staff work in important and diverse areas of current biostatistical research; including Bayesian methods, causal inference, clinical trials, electronic health records, high dimensional inference, image analysis, longitudinal data analysis, machine learning, methods for missing data, mobile health, personalized prevention and treatment, statistical computing, statistical genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, survey research, and survival and event history analysis.
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