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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has welcomed the 471 scientists and engineers elected in 2024 as Honorary Fellows. Election as an AAAS Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their…
The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2025 Rao Prize Conference on May 20, 2025, to honor three prize recipients: the 2025 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize recipient Trevor Hastie, who is the John A. Overdeck Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University; the…
The American Statistical Association’s annual awards for 2025 are announced, with the following IMS members and/or Fellows among the recipients.
ASA Founders Award
The ASA Founders Award honors five individuals for demonstrating exceptional dedication to advancing the mission of the association. They include Kate Calder, Professor and Chair…
As previously announced, Chengchun Shi of the London School of Economics and Political Science has received the 2025 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Shi receives the award “for ground-breaking contributions to the development of a wide range of statistical methods and advanced tools in reinforcement…
IMS Fellow A. Philip Dawid is the second recipient of the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, presented by the American Statistical Association, for groundbreaking contributions that have fundamentally shaped the foundations of statistical science across multiple domains. Dawid will receive the award and deliver a lecture at the…