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July 16, 2025
Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou win 2025 ISI Founders of Statistics Prize
The International Statistical Institute is pleased to announce that Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou have been awarded the 2025 Founders of Statistics Prize for Contemporary Research Contributions. This prestigious award recognizes their influential paper, “Regularization and Variable Selection…
The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (CWS) celebrated the achievements of its two 2025 Societal Impact Award winners: Shili Lin and Sarah Lotspeich. Dr. Lin is a professor of statistics at the Ohio State University and is recognized for outstanding mentoring of students and junior researchers,…
The Rollo Davidson Trustees announce the award of the 2025 Rollo Davidson Prize to:
Hao Shen (University of Wisconsin) for his deep contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and the furthering of our understanding of the stochastic Yang-Mills dynamics; and
Eliran Subag (Weizmann Institute) for his deep…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has welcomed the 471 scientists and engineers elected in 2024 as Honorary Fellows. Election as an AAAS Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their…
The Penn State Department of Statistics held the 2025 Rao Prize Conference on May 20, 2025, to honor three prize recipients: the 2025 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize recipient Trevor Hastie, who is the John A. Overdeck Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University; the…