News
August 31, 2023
Distinguished Emeritus Professor Richard Floyd Gundy passed away peacefully on February 20th, 2023. He was 89 years old.
Dick graduated from Illinois College. He went on to earn a PhD in Experimental Psychology at Indiana University, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. Fascinated with the statistics…
Donald Guthrie passed away peacefully on November 18, 2022, with family by his side. He was 89.
Don was born to Donald and Clair Guthrie in Eureka, CA, on July 8, 1933. Don graduated high school at 16 and subsequently graduated from Stanford University. He went on to complete an…
Don Pierce had a habit of continuing email threads with his collaborators years after a previous message without missing a beat in the conversation. Such instant-restart conversations reflected a profound intellectual concentration, a dogged pursuit of deeper understanding, and the special importance he placed on his collaborative relationships. These conversations…
These are some of this year’s IMS Travel Award recipients who used their awards to fund travel to the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto (pictured with Program Secretary Annie Qu, on the right). If you are a graduate student or a new researcher, you can apply for a travel…
Columnist Clara Grazian continues our advice column for early-career researchers:
Question: When is the right time, as an academic, to have a baby?
Clara says: This question was posed to me during a panel session organised for International Women in Mathematics Day 2023 (12th May). The panellist who spoke before…