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Karen Kafadar, chair and commonwealth professor in the department of statistics at the University of Virginia, has been elected the American Statistical Association’s 114th President. She will serve a one-year term as president-elect beginning January 1, 2018; her term as president becomes effective January 1, 2019. Karen’s research interests focus…
Walter A. Rosenkrantz, who passed away September 19, 2017, was Emeritus Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He had spent over 30 years at UMass. His Bachelor’s degree was from University of Chicago in 1957, and his MS (1959) and PhD (1963)…
The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2017 Rao Prize Conference on May 12, 2017, where three outstanding prize recipients were honored. The 2017 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize recipient was Donald B. Rubin, the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. Paul R. Rosenbaum…
The 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland, which included the IMS Annual Meeting, took place from July 29 to August 3. There were over 6,000 participants from 52 countries, and more than 600 sessions. Among the IMS program highlights were the three Wald Lectures given by Emmanuel Candès, and…
The American Statistical Association elected 62 new Fellows this year, among whom are the following IMS members:
Mariza de Andrade, Professor of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic Foundation
William B. Fairley, Senior Statistician, President, Analysis & Inference, Inc.
Byron Jon Gajewski, Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
Tilmann Gneiting, Professor of Computational…