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March 31, 2026
Saralees Nadarajah (University of Manchester UK), Samuel Manda (Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa), and Queensley C. Chukwudum (Univ. of Uyo, Nigeria) write: International research collaborations are widely heralded as essential mechanisms for addressing global challenges in health, agriculture, and development. Funding schemes from major agencies in Europe and North America…

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The PDF version of the June/July 2026 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF. You can also read selected articles at https://imstat.org/news/. Contents include: US National Academy of Sciences members Peter L. Bartlett, Jianqing Fan, Andrew Gelman, Elizaveta (Liza) Levina, Art B. Owen Members’ news: Peter

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March 20, 2026
A new issue of Annals of Applied Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aoas/aoas_20_1/aoas_20_1.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/

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Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has received the 2026 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Wei receives the award “for contributions to statistical theory and methodology in learning from high-dimensional and structured data; for…

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March 6, 2026
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2026 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Kaizheng Wang. Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations…

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