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Professor Jane Hutton has been named as the winner of the Rob Kempton Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Biometry in the Developing World. Jane will receive her award at a ceremony to be held by the International Biometric Society on Tuesday 12 July.

Further details can be found on the .

Many congratulations to Bärbel Finkenstädt Rand who has been promoted to Professor with effect from 1st June 2016. It is a very well-deserved recognition of all her hard work over the years, and as a department we are truly delighted that this has now been approved.

David Selby, a first Year PhD student in the Department of Statistics, has won first prize in the Anvil Hack II event.

is a 24-hour "creative" hackathon run by , which also organised the event hosted by the engineering department in February. Anvil Hack II was hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London on 7–8 May.

David formed a two-man team with Angus Scott, a friend from the University of Edinburgh. Rather than generate data from music, they set about generating music from data. Inspired by Leland Wilkinson's book The Grammar of Graphics, "" is a web application that maps values in data to the frequency and volume of music, allowing you to listen to your data.

Judging criteria for Anvil Hack II were "creativity" and "fun". There were also prizes from the event's various sponsors (e.g. a GitHub prize for best developer tool and an Amazon prize for best project using Amazon Web Services) as well as an overall first, second and third prize. Grammarphone came first and was awarded the Gold Anvil, which is a real (and very heavy!) anvil, painted gold, that they got to take home.

You can try out Grammarphone . The interface lets you enter a dataset, which Grammarphone will simultaneously visualise with a line graph and "sonify" with an audio graph. You can pick your own artist and track, or the application can randomly select one from Spotify for you.

Professor Christian Robert has been nominated as a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France for the period 2016-2021 [link: ]. This national institute supports professors and lecturers from French universities towards a lighter teaching load and dedicated research grants, with the goals of fostering research excellence within French universities, reducing gender inequalities in research, and supporting research throughout the country. Professor Robert was earlier a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France for the period 2010-2015, this is thus his second (and last) nomination.

Dr Martine Barons was recently interviewed by Womanthology magazine on the subject of breaking down barriers for women in the fields of Mathematics and Statistics.

You can read the interview by following .