Nominations
IMS Past-President Peter Bühlmann and the former Chair of the Committee on Equality and Diversity Nicole Lazar write: IMS has many awards and honors for early, mid-career and senior researchers. While these awards recognize excellence of individuals, they should represent and showcase the breadth of outstanding achievements of our members…

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On behalf of the organizers of the biennial million-dollar Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, which was first awarded in 2022, Mia Hubert and Stefan Van Aelst write: Statistics is a cornerstone of science, health, industry, economics, government and more, and benefits society as a whole. The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awards…

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Ryan Tibshirani wins the prestigious 2023 COPSS Presidents’ Award Ryan Tibshirani is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie broadly in statistics, machine learning (ML), and optimization and more specifically in high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric estimation, distribution-free inference, convex optimization, and…

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The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion awards and lectures. You are invited to nominate: the 2025 & 2026 Wald Award & Lectures the 2025 Neyman Award & Lecture the 2025 Rietz Award & Lecture the 2025 Wahba Award & Lecture the 2026

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The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) presents the Mortimer Spiegelman Award annually to honor a statistician below the age of 40 in the calendar year of the award who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics. The award, established…

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