J.K. Ghosh in 2010, during a trip to the Lake of Ozarks, MO. Photo: Jyotishka Datta Professor Jayanta K. Ghosh passed away on September 30; he was 80. J.K. Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, on May 23, 1937. Over a period of nearly 60 years, Professor Ghosh made timely…

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Some information on the life of James Hannan, whose widow’s legacy has created the Hannan Graduate Student Travel Awards (see cover article). James F. Hannan, Fellow of the IMS and professor emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University, died on January 26, 2010, at the…

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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)…

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Professor Ken-ichi Yoshihara died in Yokohama, Japan, on October 29, 2016. He was born on September 20, 1932 in Zushi, a small town near Yokohama. He graduated with a BA from Yokohama National University in 1954; and received a master’s degree (1956) and PhD (1965) from the Tokyo University of…

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  Joseph M. Hilbe, born in Los Angeles, California (December 30, 1944), passed away at his home on March 12, 2017. He was an American statistician and philosopher, the founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association (IAA), Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawaii, Solar System Ambassador with NASA’s Jet…

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