Nominations
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies held its “COPSS and Friends” meeting in August, with representatives from COPSS itself (Bhramar Mukherjee and Huixia Judy Wang), and from its founding societies: the American Statistical Association, ASA (Wendy Martinez, Ron Wasserstein), Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society, ENAR (Michael Daniels,…

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Please visit https://community.amstat.org/copss/home for details of eligibility and nomination requirements for all these awards. Please send your nomination, preferably by email in PDF format, to the committee chair for each award. The deadline for all these nominations is December 15, 2020. COPSS Presidents’ Award The Presidents’ Award is presented annually…

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Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/peter-gavin-hall-ims-early-career-prize/ Peter Hall played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities. The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early career (PhD in 2013-2020) research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly…

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New award created for “Emerging Leaders in Statistics” The COPSS Leadership Academy Award was established in 2020 to recognize early career statistical scientists who show evidence of and potential for leadership and who will help shape and strengthen the field. The award is designed both to call attention to the…

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The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is currently accepting nominations for these IMS Named and Medallion Lectures: the 2022 Neyman Lecturer the 2022 Rietz Lecturer eight 2023 Medallion Lecturers Send your nomination by October 1, 2020. Information on all lectures is available at https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/

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