The Department of Statistics is excited to recognize Ziwei Zhu, assistant professor of statistics, for being selected as one of ten finalists for the 2021 Provost Teaching Innovation Prize. This prize is meant to honor innovations that improve student learning. Ziwei was selected as a finalist our of nearly 100 submissions for his great work in developing an online automated challenge judging system for Stats 415. While there is still another round of selection to take place, our department is very pround of Ziwei's impressive achievement.