Member news
The United States National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected this year bring the total number of active members to 2,705 and the total number of international members to…
The UK Royal Statistical Society has awarded Professor Peter McCullagh the 2026 Guy Medal in Gold for “pivotal contributions to statistical theory both broad in range and exceptional in depth.”
Professor McCullagh, FRS, who is John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, has made wide-ranging contributions…
IMS Fellow Javier Rojo, Indiana University and MD Anderson Cancer Center, is among the 2026 Class of Fellows of the AMS. This honor recognizes AMS members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Dr. Rojo is an elected Fellow of the…
The Rollo Davidson Trustees announce the award of the 2026 Rollo Davidson Prize to three recipients: Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick) for great advances in our understanding of scaling-critical two-dimensional stochastic systems; Jiaoyang Huang (University of Pennsylvania) for deep results on edge universality for random matrices and related models; and…
Professor Howell Tong has been elected a member of the Academy of Europe (Mathematics Section) in 2026. Professor Tong is a fellow of the IMS and an emeritus professor of statistics at London School of Economics, a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Tsinghua…