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Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany. The honorary doctorate is in recognition of his work in the social sciences and economics, and in particular, for his…
The UK’s Royal Society is a fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Fellows are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science. Each year 44 new Fellows are elected by existing Fellows. Among…
Thanks to a generous bequest by the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting, this year held at JSM in Miami, July 30 – August 4, 2011. This year the IMS Committee on…
The IMS Committee on Fellows has selected 18 new IMS Fellows this year. They will be presented at JSM in Miami, at the IMS Presidential Address on Monday, August 1, 2011, 8:00–9:30pm. The Fellows are:…
In its 2011 competition for the US and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars, chosen from some 3,000 applicants. Only one fellowship was awarded in statistics, to our editor, Dimitris Politis.…