Thanks to a generous bequest by the late Professor Radha Govind Laha, IMS established the Laha Awards to provide funds for travel to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting, this year held at JSM in Miami, July 30 – August 4, 2011. This year the IMS Committee on Travel Awards has selected 14 students and new researchers for the award. They are:

Guanqun Cao, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University
Xiang Liu, Dept of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center
Xin Liu, Dept of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hui Nie, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Aleksey Polunchenko, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Garvesh Raskutti, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Dan Shen, Dept of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Minjing Tao, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Xin Tong, Princeton University
Yueqing Wang, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Peng Wang, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gongjun Xu, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Yunwen Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kai Zhang, Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania