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IMS member Jonathan Skinner has taught a free statistics class (“without math”) as part of the offerings at his local food coop, in order to spread the good word, for the past several years. He writes:
I am a retired statistician with a PhD in mathematics (1970). It struck my…
IMS Fellow Xihong Lin was among those elected as members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the three United States Academies, along with Science and Engineering. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals…
The Applied Public Health Statistics section of the American Public Health Association has named Raphael Gottardo, a computational biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the winner of its 2018 Mortimer Spiegelman Award. The Spiegelman Award honors statisticians under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions to health…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has bestowed upon 416 of its members the lifetime honor of being an elected Fellow in recognition of their extraordinary achievements in advancing science. Among those elected to the Section on Statistics are three IMS members: Song Xi Chen, Peking University, China;…
Some of the IMS journals have new editors.
Starting January 1, 2019, the Annals of Applied Probability will now have two Co-editors (like the Annals of Statistics has had). Therefore, Editor Bálint Tóth is handing over to Francois Delarue and Peter Friz. Francois is Professor in the mathematics department at…