Kathryn Chaloner accepting her COPSS Elizabeth Scott Award at last year’s JSM. Photo: Eric Sampson/ASA Kathryn Chaloner, 60, passed away on October 19, 2014. She was a fellow of the ASA and the AAAS, and an elected member of the ISI. From 2002 to October 2014, Kathryn was Professor and…

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Robert V. “Bob” Hogg, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Actuarial Science, passed away on December 23, 2014, in Highlands Ranch, CO, aged 90. Professor Hogg was an internationally renowned statistics textbook author, pioneering researcher, and an award-winning teacher. Blessed with a fun-loving, charismatic personality and a sharp mind, Bob has…

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Professor Pejaver V. Rao (known as P.V.) died on January 2, 2015 at his retirement home in North Carolina after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer. He was hospitalized in mid December, but returned home to spend the holidays with his family, who were with him at his death.…

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Steven Ferris Arnold, age 70, of State College, PA, died December 6, 2014, at his residence. Steve was Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Penn State University. Steve was a 1966 graduate of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., summa cum laude, and earned a MS (1967) and PhD in Statistics from…

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Eugene Dynkin, the A.R. Bullis Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Cornell University, died November 14, 2014, in Ithaca, NY. He was 90. He is survived by his wife, Irene; a daughter, Olga Barel; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Evgenii Borisovich Dynkin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1924.…

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