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Two IMS members were among the student winners who will receive financial support to attend the American Statistical Association’s 2021 Conference on Statistical Practice. The winners of the ASA John J. Bartko Award were Sara Venkatraman, Cornell University, along with Mansi Shah, Primrose Schools Franchising Company. The winners of the…
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…