News
March 20, 2012
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics has established a prize in memory of M. Gweneth Humphreys to recognize outstanding mentorship activities. This prize will be awarded annually to a mathematics teacher (female or male) who has encouraged female undergraduate students to pursue mathematical careers and/or the…
March 5, 2012
For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences
The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are pleased to request nominations for the Eleventh Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a…
The white paper “Statistical Issues in Assessing Hospital Performance” has been released. The paper was commissioned by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies at the request of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The COPSS-CMS White Paper Committee included: Arlene S. Ash, PhD; Stephen E. Fienberg, PhD; Thomas…
February 27, 2012
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Huixia Wang as the winner of this year’s Tweedie New Researcher Award. Dr. Wang received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of North Carolina…
Table of contents of the March Bulletin:
World Congress fundingMembers’ News: Peter Glynn, Michael Waterman, Claudia Neuhauser, George Casella, Dipak Dey, Wing Kam Fung, Sastry Pantula, Xiaotong Shen, Sudipto Banerjee, Jiti Gao, Stefano Iacus, Ranjan Maitra, Axel Munk, Haiyan Wang, Judith RousseauJournal News: AoS, AoAP, EJP, ECPBrazilian journal special issueSpiegelman…