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Tomi Mori is the 2021 President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. She is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. She writes: 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS), an international professional statistical society…

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In the last issue, we briefly announced the winners of this year’s Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) awards. Here’s some more background on them all: Alicia Carriquiry to deliver the 2021 Florence Nightingale David Award Lecture Nancy Gordon (Chair of the Award Committee) and Daniel Nettleton (Iowa State…

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The COPSS Leadership Academy is a new initiative for emerging leaders in statistics created by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, spearheaded by Bhramar Mukherjee. This new award recognizes the increasingly important role that early-career statistical scientists are playing in shaping the future of the discipline and is designed…

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Douglas Simpson was appointed as the Associate Director of the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) on August 1, 2020. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1985, serving as chair of the department from 2000–19. In…

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Nike Sun, associate professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been awarded the 2020 Wolfgang Doeblin Prize, awarded every other year by the Bernoulli Society. The prize is awarded to a single individual for outstanding research in the field of probability, and who is at the beginning…

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