{"id":247661,"date":"2024-11-22T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=247661"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T21:04:51","slug":"audrey-hendricks-receives-2023-biostatistics-distinguished-alumni-award","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2024\/audrey-hendricks-receives-2023-biostatistics-distinguished-alumni-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Audrey Hendricks Receives 2024 Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin sphnews-block-editorial-leadin is-style-default has-media has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"Scarlett Bellamy presents Audrey Hendricks with the 2024 Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-755x503.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-resize-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Photo by Megan Jones<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">biostatistics<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAudrey Hendricks Receives 2024 Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Hendricks (SPH&#8217;11), whose research bridges biomedical science and statistical machine learning, is on a mission to advance inclusion in the sciences, from who joins the field to what questions are asked and for whom.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">November 22, 2024<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/authors\/megan-jones\/\">Megan Jones<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>The Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health has named&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/audrey-e-hendricks\/details\/experience\/\">Audrey Hendricks<\/a> (SPH&#8217;11) the recipient of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/about\/departments\/biostatistics\/biostatistics-distinguished-alumni-award\/\">2024 Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award<\/a>. Hendricks, an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz, accepted the award and gave a presentation on lessons from her career at SPH on November 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual award recognizes an alum from any graduate-level biostatistics program at Boston University whose career embodies SPH\u2019s core purpose to \u201cThink. Teach. Do. For the health of all.\u201d This includes notable contributions to the field, such as publishing peer-reviewed articles, teaching and mentoring the next generation of biostatisticians, and doing work that impacts underserved populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;She exemplifies the ethos of &#8216;Think. Teach. Do. For the health of all.&#8217; making substantial and sustained contributions across these domains. Her achievements and unwavering dedication make her an outstanding candidate for BU&#8217;s Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award,&#8221; reads an excerpt from Hendricks\u2019 nominations package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Audrey Hendricks speaks at the 2024 Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award\" class=\"wp-image-247665\" width=\"527\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-636x424.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-755x503.jpeg 755w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-1500x1000.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-22-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption>Hendricks answers a question from a member of the student Q&amp;A panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/scarlett-bellamy\/\">Scarlett Bellamy<\/a>, professor of biostatistics and chair of the biostatistics department at SPH, shared the quote with the audience of SPH faculty, staff and students who gathered to hear Hendricks\u2019 remarks and participate in a student-led Q&amp;A. Hendricks, who was both a master&#8217;s student in the biostatistics program at BU and a PhD student in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/about\/departments\/biostatistics\/\">Department of Biostatistics<\/a>&nbsp;at SPH, said she was honored to be back at her alma mater, noting, &#8220;I see a lot of a lot of familiar faces and some new ones as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After defending her PhD and giving birth to her first child, Hendricks and her family moved to Cambridge\u2014&#8221;the one across the pond, not the river,&#8221; she joked\u2014so she could undertake a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanger.ac.uk\/\">Wellcome Sanger Institute<\/a>, one of the world&#8217;s leading genomics research institutes where sequencing of the genes of over 10,000 individuals was underway at the time. Hendricks lived and worked in Cambridge for a year before her young family&#8217;s childcare needs compelled them to return to the U.S. Back in Boston, Hendricks completed the fellowship remotely while simultaneously taking advantage of an opportunity to serve as a visiting post-doc at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/\">Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Student panel at 2024 Biostatistics Distinguished Alum Award\" class=\"wp-image-247664\" width=\"364\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-636x424.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-755x503.jpeg 755w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-1500x1000.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2024\/11\/2024-Biostats-Alum-Award-21-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption>A Q&amp;A panel of current biostatistics students at SPH.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at UC Denver offered Hendricks, then seven months pregnant, her first faculty position. She accepted, settling her family in her home state of Colorado, not far from where she studied physics and music as an undergraduate at UC Boulder. In the ensuing years, Hendricks has picked up additional appointments in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics and at UC Anschutz and built a robust multidisciplinary <a href=\"https:\/\/audreyhendricks.com\/\">research team<\/a> to apply statistical machine learning methods to advance genetic data analysis, elucidate healthy diet mechanisms, and understand the genomic underpinnings of traits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout, Hendricks has maintained an ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion in science through the mentorship of a more representative pool of future statisticians and critical thinkers. In addition to mentoring the professional and student research assistants in her own lab, Hendricks co-directs two formal training programs offered by UC Anschutz and UC Denver, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hendricks-research-team.github.io\/PATHGDS\/\">Pathways in Genomic Data Science<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msudenver.edu\/advanced-stem-education\/genomics-research-experiences\/\">Pathways in Genomic Research Experiences for Undergraduates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories is-style-card has-three sphnews-block-editorial-relatedstories\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-title\">Related<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"600\" height=\"362\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2024\/09\/BIG-DATA-THUMB-GettyImages-1206893266.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-category\"><span>biostatistics<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2024\/sph-launches-new-center-for-health-data-science\/\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title-link\">SPH Launches New Center for Health Data Science<\/a><\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-date\">September 27, 2024<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<article class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"600\" height=\"362\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2023\/10\/Michael-Posner-headshot600x362.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Headshot of alumnus Michael Posner holding a dry erase marker to a transparent board with statistical equations superimposed over his left shoulder\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-category\"><span>School News<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2023\/michael-posner-receives-2023-biostatistics-distinguished-alumni-award\/\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-title-link\">Michael Posner Receives 2023 Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award<\/a><\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-article-date\">October 5, 2023<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health has named&nbsp;Audrey Hendricks (SPH&#8217;11) the recipient of the&nbsp;2024 Biostatistics Distinguished Alumni Award. Hendricks, an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz, accepted the award and gave a presentation on lessons from her career at SPH on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22210,"featured_media":247686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[1750,2427,2013,503],"bu-publication":[3516],"sphnews-article-category":[],"sphnews-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"profile_tax":[4382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/247661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247661"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/247661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252015,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/247661\/revisions\/252015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247661"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=247661"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-article-category?post=247661"},{"taxonomy":"sphnews-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sphnews-topic?post=247661"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=247661"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=247661"},{"taxonomy":"profile_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_tax?post=247661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}