News
November 17, 2016
IMS Fellow Sir David Cox has been named the inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics. The Prize, considered the highest honor in statistics, will be bestowed every other year to an individual or team for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology and human welfare.
Cox is…
Among the 70 regular members and 9 international members elected this year to the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is IMS Fellow Alicia Carriquiry. Alicia is distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences and professor of statistics at Iowa State University. Election to the Academy is considered one of…
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) has selected Ruth Williams and Martin Reiman to jointly receive the 2016 INFORMS Von Neumann Theory Prize.
The John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annually to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) for fundamental, sustained…
IMS members Nicholas Horton (Amherst College) and Wendy Lou (University of Toronto) have taken on new leadership roles as Chair and Secretary/Treasurer, respectively, of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. COPSS serves to foster connections between statistical societies and to organize a series of awards for outstanding work…
The ASA awarded several prizes at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago this year—and there are lots of IMS members and Fellows among them!
ASA Founders: James L. Rosenberger received an ASA Founders Award, along with John L. Czajka, Rod Little and Maura Stokes.
ASA Fellows: Among the 65 new…