Members of the North Carolina (NC) Chapter presented their awards this fall. Service and contribution awards went to Breda Munoz of RTI and Sujit Ghosh of North Carolina State University for their long and outstanding service to the NC Chapter. Senior statistician awardees David Banks of SAMSI and Duke University, David Dickey of North Carolina State University, and Maura Stokes of SAS also were honored for their major contributions to the field. The awards were presented at the Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC) Banquet and Awards Ceremony on October 6.

NC Chapter and AISC Young Researcher Award winners included the following:

• Yunran Chen and Siyun Yang of Duke University
• Isabel Gesen* of Elon University
• Vincent Davis and Shana McDowell* of North Carolina Central University
• Jesse Clifton, Lin Dong, Sohini Raha, Eric Rose, Lili Wu, and Zekun Xu of North Carolina State University
• Sean McCabe* and Jonathan William* of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Julia Haines* of Wake Forest University
• Qiuyi Wu of SAMSI

*These young researchers are also members of the NC Chapter’s Scholastic Council, an initiative to coordinate activities and disseminate information to North Carolina’s schools, colleges, and universities.

More information about these awards and the award winners can be found on the North Carolina page in the ASA Community.