Queen’s Anniversary Prize awarded to University of Warwick

The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education was awarded to The University of Warwick last month. The ceremony occurred in Buckingham Palace in recognition of Warwick’s mathematical and scientific research in the past 50 years.

The awards are given out every two years to educational institutes that show innovative research and teaching. They focus on universities that provide research that benefits the general public.

This is not the first award the Department of Statistics at Warwick has received; in 2012 it was awarded the first Regius Professorship in Mathematics. This was the first award in the UK in over 300 hundred years.

Warwick now has the largest statistics department in the UK and is supported by large amounts of public and private sector funding. The department has always been at the forefront of research since its first creation.

The Vice-Chancellor, Stuart Croft has commented: “Mathematics and statistics have been at the centre of University of Warwick research since our foundation.”

He added: “We are honoured to receive the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in recognition of our staff and students’ dedication and success in establishing Warwick’s global reputation for excellence”

Moreover, Professor Mark Steel, Head of the Department for Statistics at Warwick has said: “On behalf of the Department of Statistics, I am delighted with the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, which is a truly wonderful recognition of all the hard work we and our colleagues in Mathematics have done over the years”.

Professor Colin Sparrow, Head of the University of Warwick’s Mathematics Institute has also commented: “Research mathematicians were the very first students to enroll at the University of Warwick and were the start of an institution that is now one of the world’s top 100 Universities”.

He concluded: “The Queen’s Anniversary Prize is a most welcome recognition of our achievements to date”.