IMS Council has approved the nomination of Tati Howell, IMS Bulletin Editor for the 2021 Carver Medal, as recommended by the Committee to Select the Carver Award. Tati receives the award for her outstanding service, efforts, and dedication as the assistant editor and the editor of the IMS Bulletin during the past 20 years. We asked those who have worked with Tati over the last 20 years to share with us their thoughts on this…

Congratulations to the 2021 Class of IMS Fellows! Ery Arias-Castro, University of California, San Diego For fundamental contributions to nonparametric statistics including clustering, graphs and networks, sparse estimation, and statistical learning; and for extensive editorial service. Yuri Bakhtin, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University For the groundbreaking work on random dynamical systems including stochastic PDEs. Prabir Burman, University of California, Davis For contributions to model selection, nonparametric estimation for independent and dependent…

IMS members who are selected to receive the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award can use the funds for travel to any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. Any IMS student member is eligible to apply. Joshua Agterberg, Johns Hopkins University Blair Bilodeau, University of Toronto Jacob R. Bradley, University of Edinburgh Siyu Heng, University of Pennsylvania Inkoo Lee, Florida State University Tianyu Pan, University of California, Irvine Konstantinos Pantazis, University of Maryland, College Park Stefan Stein,…

A new issue of Statistical Science has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/sts/sts_36_2/sts_36_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

IMS members who are selected to receive the IMS New Researcher Travel Award can use the funds for travel to present a paper or a poster at any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. Any IMS member who has received their Ph.D. within the last five years is eligible to apply. The 2021 recipients of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards are: Marta Catalano, University of Torino Yifan Cui, National University of Singapore Rui Duan, Harvard University…