We are saddened to bring news that five of our community have passed away recently. We do not yet have full details, but obituaries will appear for these colleagues in due course. Steven F. Arnold, Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University, passed away December 6. He was born in…

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James “Jim” MacQueen IMS Fellow James B. MacQueen passed away on July 15, 2014, at the age of 85 after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Ann, their three children, Donald, Kate and Mary, and five grandchildren. Professor MacQueen lived his academic career on the faculty of…

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Photo from http://www.jagdishrustagi.com/ Jagdish Sharan Rustagi, an eminent statistician and a fellow of IMS, passed away on September 21, 2014, in Sunnyvale, California. He was born on August 13, 1923, in the village of Sikri located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in (then) British India. He obtained his BA…

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Laurent Cavalier, Professor of Mathematics at the Aix-Marseille Université, France, passed away on January 13, 2014, after being operated on for appendicitis in a hospital in Marseille, France. He was only 42 years old. Laurent Cavalier was born on October 13, 1971. After studying pure mathematics at the University of…

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M.J. (Susie) Bayarri passed away on August 19, 2014, in Valencia, Spain, after an 18-month battle with a brain tumor. Susie was a Fellow of the IMS and one of the most prominent Bayesian statisticians in the world. Susie was born on September 16, 1956 in Valencia, Spain. She studied…

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