In the last issue, we announced the latest additions to the prestigious list of IMS Fellows, now numbering 1,098. Paul Shaman delves deeper into the history of IMS Fellows, and reveals some interesting characters among them:   At its founding in 1935, the IMS constitution stipulated: (Ann. Math. Statist.,…

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  Xiao-Li Meng gives some advice to a student in a conundrum. After the final exam of my first Gen. Ed. course, Real-life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery), a student insisted on seeing me. Given the course title, I thought I would hear about his misery—likely about the…

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Peter William Meredith John passed away on January 22, 2015 at the age of 91. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth of 61 years, a daughter, a son, and two grandchildren. He will be remembered by friends and family for his warmth, kindness and humor and by his colleagues…

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  Bruce G. Lindsay, 68, passed away at home, surrounded by his family, on the morning of May 5. Bruce was holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics at Penn State University, where he joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1979 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at…

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Moshe Shaked, a leading figure in stochastic orders and distribution theory, died unexpectedly on October 28, 2014, in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 69. Shaked is survived by his wife of 37 years, Edith; his son Tal; his two daughters, Shanna and Lila; his daughter in law, Carrie; his…

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