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November 15, 2019
Byeong Uk Park, Professor of Statistics at Seoul National University in South Korea, has received the 33rd Inchon Award. The prestigious Inchon Awards honor the memory of Kim Sung-soo (whose pen-name was Inchon), former vice-president of the Republic of Korea, founder of Korea University, and founder of the Dong-A Ilbo…
IMS Fellow Hal S. Stern has been appointed vice provost for academic planning at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Since joining UCI as founding chair of the statistics department in 2002, Stern has held a range of academic and administrative leadership roles. He served for eight years as chair…
IMS Fellow Per Mykland was among only three people awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship this year in Mathematics or Statistics. These Fellowships are intended for individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship. The Guggenheim Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications, and makes around 175 awards, each year.
Per Mykland is…
James Robins, Mitchell L. and Robin LaFoley Dong Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard, has received the inaugural Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Center for Causal Inference. Robins accepted the award at the center’s annual Causal Inference Summer Institute, which was hosted by the Rutgers School of Public Health in New…
US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed Philip Stark, University of California at Berkeley, to serve on the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors.
Established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), the EAC Board of Advisors is comprised of 37 individuals who assist the…