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IMS member Joshua M. Tebbs was recently named Editor-in-Chief at The American Statistician. He will serve a three-year term (2021–2023), overseeing the review process for all submissions to the journal. Dr. Tebbs is Professor and Chair in the Department of Statistics at University of South Carolina. He obtained his BS…
James O’Malley, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of biomedical data science at the Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2019 ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) Award for Excellence in…
Xuming He, University of Michigan, will serve as President-Elect (2021–23) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI): https://www.isi-web.org/news-featured/20332-2020-isi-officers-elections.
The ISI, formally established in 1885, is a non-profit, non-government organization and has had consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 1949.…
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has awarded its Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT.
IMS Fellow Emery Brown, who is a member of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Institute…
Nearly 500 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have earned the lifetime distinction of AAAS Fellow. AAAS Fellows are elected each year by their peers serving on the Council of AAAS, the organization’s member-run governing body. The title recognizes important contributions to STEM disciplines, including pioneering…