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The Statistics Department football team prove that academic excellence can be combined with success on the pitch by winning the University's inter mural football league (the KPMG League).  The thrilling final concluded a year long battle to gain the title coveted by staff and student teams through out the university.

The 2007 John M Chambers Statistical Software Award of the American Statistical Association is to be made to Dr Heather Turner and Professor David Firth, for their gnm package. The Chambers Award aims to encourage innovative and well-designed statistical software, and is awarded annually to one project worldwide.

PhD student Ioannis Kosmidis has won the award for Best Scientific Content in a Poster Presented by a Student at this year's International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (Barcelona, July 2007).