Biostats Professor Hicks Lauded for Love of Mathematics.

Jacqueline Milton Hicks, a clinical associate professor of biostatistics, is among the mathematicians featured in Mathematically Gifted and Black, a website designed to celebrate the achievements of Black scholars in the mathematical sciences.

Honorees are selected by members of the Network of Minorities in Mathematical Sciences, a group formed in 2016 to highlight the work and lives of established mathematicians in the African diaspora.

Hicks, who earned her PhD in biostatistics as SPH in 2014, has become an integral part of the teaching faculty at SPH, and teaches several of the critical core courses, including Quantitative Methods for Public Health.

Hicks works primarily with graduate students during the school year, but each summer she puts her teaching talents to work introducing younger students to biostatistics. 

She teaches and mentors undergraduate students as co-director of BU’s federally funded Summer Institute for Biostatistics (SIBS). The program brings college students with an interest in math, statistics, health, and biology to the BU campus for six weeks to introduce them to the field of biostatistics, with the goal of recruiting more people to the profession. More than 60 percent of SIBS participants go on to earn graduate degrees in biostatistics or related fields. 

In addition to her work with SIBS, Hicks runs the Public Health and Biostatistics Lab series for the Upward Bound Math/Science Summer Program, a program whose purpose is to prepare low-income and first-generation college bound students for success in higher education. She also runs a program within the Department of Biostatistics to help prepare graduate students to become better teachers in the field of public health.

Learn more about Dr. Hicks at Mathematically Gifted and Black.