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May 15, 2025
IMS Fellow A. Philip Dawid is the second recipient of the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, presented by the American Statistical Association, for groundbreaking contributions that have fundamentally shaped the foundations of statistical science across multiple domains. Dawid will receive the award and deliver a lecture at the…
Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia has been awarded the Hannan Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. Noel Cressie is Director of UOW’s Centre for Environmental Informatics in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) and Distinguished Professor in the School…
The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University proudly hosted the Best of Statistical Science (BOSS) 2025 Workshop on April 25–26, 2025. The two-day event brought together a distinguished group of experts, faculty, and students for a rich program of academic exchange, professional networking, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This workshop was…
New Researcher Travel Awards: 16 winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards for 2025. Each award provides funding to an IMS member who has received their PhD within the past five years, to attend any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting where they will…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten teams up with Rob Tibshirani:
This column is about the fact that statistics is hard. Of course, statistics is hard for non-statisticians: anyone who has ever taught a non-major stat class knows this to be true! But this column is about the fact that…