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August 28, 2025
Grace Y. Yi is the Statistical Society of Canada 2025 Gold Medal recipient. Grace is professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science at the University of Western Ontario. She joined Western in July 2019 after nearly two decades at the University of Waterloo, where she began as…
The CRM–SSC Prize in Statistics recognizes a statistical scientist’s excellence and accomplishments in research during the first 15 years after their doctorate. It is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada. This year’s winner is Linglong Kong, University of Alberta.
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Shili Lin, on behalf of the CIMEP working group, reports:
Following the successful inaugural IMS–CANSSI mentoring and networking event at JSM 2024, we hosted the second gathering at JSM 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. These two events reflect IMS and CANSSI’s strong commitment to serving the community, supporting professional growth, and…
Summer’s change of pace has made our contributing editor Radu Craiu ponder, just how beige is a statistics professor’s life, and how colourful is our future?
Summer is when we are reminded, more than ever, that the world has colours. Sharp, vibrant colours that often accompany things that taste…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten concludes her two-part column about her experience as a journal editor. Part 1 (which you can read here) in the August 2025 issue, contains her thoughts about editors, associate editors (AEs), and reviewers. In this part, Daniela focuses on advice to authors.
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