A. John Bailer
A. John Bailer, ASA Board of Directors representative from the Council of Sections and distinguished professor and chair of statistics at Miami University, was awarded the university’s Benjamin Harrison Medallion during the May 7 commencement ceremony.
Miami’s Benjamin Harrison Medallion is presented to members of Miami’s faculty or staff who have made outstanding national contributions to education.
Bailer has been recognized for excellence in teaching, research, and service at Miami with other awards such as the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction and Mentoring and 2005 Distinguished Scholar of the Graduate Faculty.
Visit the Miami University website to read more about Bailer and the Harrison Medallion.
Montserrat “Montse” Fuentes
Montserrat “Montse” Fuentes was recently named head of the department of statistics at North Carolina State University, effective July 1. She replaces ASA President Sastry Pantula, who vacated the position to serve as director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.
Fuentes currently serves on the Institute of Mathematical Science Council, as a scientific adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Integrated Human Exposure Committee, and as the U.S. representative on the board of directors of the International Environmetrics Society.
In an email to faculty and staff in the department, Dan Solomon, dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, noted, “Montse brings excellent academic credentials and has the vision, determination, and dedication to lead.”
Fuentes was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008 and is the editor of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, a publication of the ASA and International Biometric Society.
Nilanjan Chatterjee
The Washington Statistical Society (WSS) and RTI International recently announced that Nilanjan Chatterjee, senior investigator and chief of the biostatistics branch at the National Cancer Institute, was chosen as this year’s recipient of the Gertrude M. Cox Award.
Since earning his PhD in statistics from the University of Washington in 1999, Chatterjee has made noteworthy contributions to developing study designs and statistical methods for modern epidemiologic studies, in high-impact studies, and in gene-environment interactions and genome-wide association studies. He will receive the award at the WSS annual dinner meeting on June 16 and will give the keynote address, “Estimating the ‘Known-Unknowns’ from ‘Known-Knowns’ in the Search for Missing Heritability of Complex Traits.”
The award was named in memory of Gertrude Cox and established in 2003 through a joint agreement between WSS and RTI to recognize statisticians in early to mid-career who have made significant contributions to statistical practice.
Raymond J. Carroll, Xiahong Chen, Yingyao Hu, and Anneleen Verhasselt
In conjunction with the ASA Section on Nonparametric Statistics, the Journal of Nonparametrics Statistics recently awarded two prizes for best papers.
Anneleen Verhasselt was the winner of the 2010 Best Student Paper Award for co-authoring “Regularization and P-splines in Generalized Linear Models” with Irène Gijbels.
Raymond J. Carroll, Xiahong Chen, and Yingyao Hu won the 2010 Best Paper Award for “Identification and Estimation of Nonlinear Models Using Two Samples with Nonclassical Measurement Errors.”Visit the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics website to view the papers.
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