Sirken Award

The Monroe G. Sirken Award in Interdisciplinary Survey Methods Research honors the accomplishments of its namesake, recognizes the accomplishments of the awardee, and enhances awareness among the statistical community of the scope and importance of Sirken’s contributions.

Each year, an individual is selected to deliver the Sirken Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings and receive an honorarium. All lecturers are selected from nominations submitted by ASA members.

Deming, Noether Awards

The ASA Deming Lecturer Award and Gottfried E. Noether awards honor the accomplishments of Gottfried E. Noether and W. Edwards Deming, recognize the accomplishments of the awardee, and enhance awareness among the statistical community of the scope and importance of Noether and Deming’s contributions.

Each year, those selected deliver a lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings and receive an honorarium. All lecturers are selected from nominations submitted by ASA members.

Additional information about each lecture, including information about submitting a nomination, can be found at the ASA website.

Nominations Wanted for 2016 Don Owen Award

The San Antonio Chapter is accepting nominations from ASA chapters in North America for the 2016 Don Owen Award, which is presented to a statistician who embodies the three-fold accomplishments of Donald B. Owen: excellence in research, statistical consultation, and service to the statistical community.

Nominees must be a member of the ASA, but are not required to be a member of the nominating chapter. In addition to a cover letter highlighting the accomplishments of the nominee, the nomination packet must contain the following supporting information:

• Name of the nominee
• Degrees (titles, dates, schools)
• Present position(s), followed by significant former positions (with dates)
• List of major publications having statistical content
• List of activities related to teaching and dissemination of statistical knowledge
• List of consulting activities related to statistical problems or editorial contributions
• List of activities supporting the mission of the ASA and related professional organizations

To nominate someone, send the nomination packet as a PDF via email to Joel Michalek at michalekj@uthscsa.edu with “Owen Award” in the subject field. Alternatively, six copies of the nomination packet can be mailed to Joel Michalek, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229.
The deadline for nominations is February 5, 2016.

Before his death in 1991, Owen was distinguished professor of statistics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He authored seven textbooks, seven monographs, and more than 75 articles in refereed journals; trained 19 doctoral and master’s students; served as an applied statistician for 10 years at the Sandia Corporation; and operated a private consulting firm that specialized in quality control. Owen was editor of Communications in Statistics for both Series A and B, associate editor of Technometrics and JASA, and editor of more than 50 textbooks.