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September 1, 2012
Bhramar Mukherjee, COPSS Treasurer/Secretary, reports on the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) annual awards, presented at JSM. The call for nominations for next year’s awards is below. We’ll have Bhramar’s interview with the Presidents’ Award winner, Sam Kou, in the next issue.
We are pleased to announce…
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Many students getting ready to graduate with their baccalaureate degrees contemplate graduate studies or plan to continue their education. One of the major obstacles can be funding: students who have just finished their undergraduate education may not want to add more tuition bills to the pile. If only there were…
Dan Nettleton, Laurence H. Baker Endowed Chair in Biological Statistics and Professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, co-organized this conference in May that was co-sponsored by the IMS. He writes:
The Conference on New Statistical Methods for Next Generation Sequencing Data was held on May 11,…
Nominations are open for the L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics; Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize for Excellence in Math by an Undergraduate Woman; and the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science.