U OF A STUDENTS PLACE THIRD IN DATA ANALYTICS COMPETITION FOCUSED ON FOOD INSECURITY

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Nov. 3 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:

Three U of A students developed a new way to find people facing food insecurity who may be missed by current measures, an approach that earned them third place in the undergraduate division of the 2026 Minnesota Midwest Undergraduate Data Analytics Competition.

The team, called the Outliers, included data science students Brady Brown and Conrad Haslauer of the College of Engineering and Nadine Moustafa of the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Justin Shipp, a data science instructor, served as the team's adviser.

The competition, known as MinneMUDAC, brings together undergraduate and graduate students to analyze real-world data and develop recomme...