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Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony

Highlighting the ASA Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, were the announcement of the Founders Award winners and the official induction of 53 ASA Fellows. Congratulations to all.

The Founders Award is given for extended, outstanding service to the statistics profession through a variety of leadership roles. As in prior years, the names of the winners remained a closely held secret until the ceremony. The 2010 Founders Award winners are Janet Buckingham, Dan Solomon, and George Williams.

Founders

For extraordinary quality and quantity of involvement in ASA chapters, sections, and committees for more than 20 years; for collegial, diligent, and disciplined leadership of the Council of Sections Governing Board and the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences; and for outstanding service to the San Antonio statistical community.

For exemplary involvement in many ASA committees for more than 25 years; for strong support of ASA publications through lengthy service on the Committee on Publications and on the Board of Directors Electronic Communications Committee; for superb leadership of the Council of Sections Governing Board; and for his central role in launching the ASA’s development program.

For his active role in ASA chapters, sections, and committees for more than 30 years; for his leadership as a vice president of the ASA; for service on the Executive Director Search Committee on two occasions, including once as chair; for dedicated leadership of the Council of Sections Governing Board; and for tireless promotion of partnerships as chair of the SPAIG Committee.

Fellows

Each year, ASA Fellows are nominated by the membership and selected by the ASA Fellows Committee, chaired this year by Cynthia Clark. The number of Fellows named is limited to no more than one-third of 1% of the active ASA member total. Fifty-three ASA Fellows were inducted this year. “These 53 individuals—who represent academia, government, and industry—have made outstanding contributions to the statistics profession,” said Sastry Pantula, ASA president. “They have been selected by their peers in recognition of their extraordinary achievements, and we are proud and happy to recognize them as Fellows of the ASA.” The 53 new Fellows are listed below.

Paul D. Allison
Dhammika Amaratunga
Carol Joyce Blumberg
James J. Colaianne
Brent Coull
Robert C. delMas
Sandrine Dudoit
Eleanor Feingold
Subhashis Ghoshal
Susan G. Groshen
Wensheng Guo
Sudhir Gupta
Amy H. Herring
Joan F. Hilton
Ming-Xiu Hu
Hsien-Ming James Hung
Telba Z. Irony
Daniel R. Jeske
Andrew Booth Lawson
Emmanuel M.E.H. Lesaffre
Virginia M. Lesser
Richard A. Levine
Gang Li
Tapabrata Maiti
Adam T. Martinsek
George Michailidis
John F. Monahan
Motomi Mori
Christopher H. Morrell
Jeri Metzger Mulrow
Paul Ross Murrell
Dayanand N. Naik
Nagaraj K. Neerchal
George Ostrouchov
Omer Ozturk
J. Lynn Palmer
Wei Pan
Sung Hyan Park
Moshe Pollak
John S. Preisser
Annie Peiyong Qu
Fabrizio Ruggeri
Estelle Russek-Cohen
Carolyn M. Rutter
Bruno Sanso
Nora Cate Schaeffer
Christopher H. Schmid
Nagambal D. Shah
Yu Shyr
Brian L. Wiens
Rongling Wu
Laura Zayatz
Haibo Zhou