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Many Honored at Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony

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A special feature of the Joint Statistical Meetings is the ASA President’s Address and Awards, during which the Founders Award winners are announced and the new ASA Fellows are inducted.

The 2019 Founders Award went to Nancy Flournoy, William I. Notz, Allan J. Rossman, Dalene Stangl, and David A. van Dyk.
 

Nancy Flournoy
University of Missouri
For leadership in statistics at the national level; for mentorship of women in statistics, including serving as a lifetime role model for countless colleagues as they began their careers and establishing NSF programs for women and minorities; for career-long service to the ASA, including instilling a new vibrancy into the Council of Sections at a critical time and serving on numerous committees, including chairing the Committee on Nominations and the Committee on Research Funding in Statistics and serving on the Fellows Committee, the Committee on Meetings, and the Committee on Women in Statistics.

William I. Notz
The Ohio State University
For outstanding section leadership, including serving as chair of the Physical and Engineering Sciences Section and Section on Statistical Education and as vice chair of the Council of Sections Governing Board; for outstanding publications leadership, including service as editor of Technometrics and the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE); and for leadership in statistics education as a member of the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics, as chair and as executive committee member of the Statistics Education Section, as editor of JSE, and for his financial support of the Best JSE Paper Award.

Allan J. Rossman
Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo
For impact at all levels of statistics education as an officer of the Statistical Education Section, member and chair of the ASA/MAA Joint Commission on Undergraduate Statistics, contributor to the Beyond AP Statistics workshop series, member of the Statistics Careers for AP Statistics and Other K–12 Classrooms Working Group, and contributor to the ASA GAISE report; for serving on the editorial board and conducting a long-running series of interviews with leaders in statistics education for the Journal of Statistics Education; and for serving as the 2007 JSM Program Chair.

Dalene Stangl

Dalene Stangl
Carnegie Mellon University
For advancing the cause of women in statistics through leadership of the Committee on Women in Statistics and founding of the Conference on Women in Statistics and Data Science; for leadership in ASA publications as the executive editor of CHANCE, the reviews editor for JASA and The American Statistician, and a member of the Committee on Publications; for leadership in the ASA’s Statistical Education Section and Section on Bayesian Statistical Science; for extensive committee service as a member of the Membership Council, Youden Award Committee, Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee, Media Experts Committee, and SPAIG Committee.

David A. van Dyk
Imperial College London
For pioneering leadership in the production and promotion of ASA journals and publications, including initiatives in electronic publication and reproducible research as editor of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and reviews editor of JASA and The American Statistician; for significant contributions to the ASA’s efforts to establish the role of statistics in data science, including the drafting of the ASA’s statement on this topic; and for leadership of the Statistical Computing Section, service on the Publications Committee, and service on the ASA Board of Directors.

 

Each year, ASA Fellows are nominated by the membership and selected by the ASA Committee on Fellows. Fifty-nine Fellows were inducted this year:
Daniel W. Apley, Northwestern University
Huiman X. Barnhart, Duke University
Derek R. Bingham, Simon Fraser University
Babette A. Brumback, University of Florida
Ann R. Cannon, Cornell College
Hua-Hua Chang, Purdue University
Jinbo Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Gerda Claeskens, KU Leuven
Keith N. Crank, Part-Time Consulting
Catherine M. Crespi, University of California, Los Angeles
Yingying Fan, University of Southern California
Michael P. Fay, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Haoda Fu, Eli Lilly and Company
Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Medical University of South Carolina
Michele Guindani, University of California, Irvine
Sebastien J-P. A. Haneuse, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Alexandra L. Hanlon, Virginia Tech
Miguel A. Hernan, Harvard University School of Public Health
Craig A. Hill, RTI International
Jianhua Hu, University of Columbia
Rebecca A. Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania
Peter B. Imrey, Cleveland Clinic
Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jiashun Jin, Carnegie Mellon University
Katerina Kechris, Colorado School of Public Health
Charles L. Kooperberg, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Eric Benjamin Laber, North Carolina State University
Michael Leo LeBlanc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Bo Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jia Li, Penn State University
Yehua Li, University of California, Riverside
Jeff D. Maca, Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania
Samuel Mueller, University of Sydney
Lei Nie, FDA
Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Eun Sug Park, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Judea Pearl, University of California, Los Angeles
Igor Prünster, Bocconi University
Brian James Reich, North Carolina State University
Jason A. Roy, Rutgers University
Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
Joseph L. Schafer, US Census Bureau
Jonathan Scott Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University
John Scott, DA
J. Michael Shaughnessy, Portland State University
David A. Stephens, McGill University
Tim Brian Swartz, Simon Fraser University
Sally W. Thurston, University of Rochester
Alexander Tsodikov, University of Michigan
Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
William J. Welch, University of British Columbia
David Christopher Woods, University of Southampton
Min Yang, University of Illinois at Chicago
Xiangrong Yin, University of Kentucky
Menggang Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lanju Zhang, AbbVie
Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo
Hui Zou, University of Minnesota

Many more people were honored for their contributions to various causes that advance the field of statistics. Following are some of the awards and recipients:

Dan Apley
Editor, Technometrics
2017–2019

F. Jay Breidt
Editor, Reviews, Journal of the American Statistical Association and The American Statistician
2017–2019

Li Cai
Co-Editor, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
2015–2019

Scott R. Evans
Editor, CHANCE
2014–2019

Dan McCaffrey
Co-Editor, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
2015–2019

Gertrude Cox Scholarship in Statistics

Born in 1900, Gertrude Cox is fondly known as the “First Lady of Statistics” for her pioneering roles in the predominantly male-dominated discipline of statistics. Among her many accolades and accomplishments, she became the first woman—and the first person—to earn a master’s degree in statistics from Iowa State University, where she was appointed assistant professor of statistics in 1939. In 1940, she became professor of statistics at North Carolina State University.

Jointly sponsored by the ASA Committee on Women in Statistics and the Caucus for Women in Statistics, the Cox scholarship has been presented annually since 1989 to encourage women to enter statistically oriented professions. This year’s Gertrude Cox Scholarship went to Maria Jahja and Claire Kelling.

    To Maria Jahja, statistics PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, for academic success; for multiple interdisciplinary research achievements that strengthen data-driven decision-making in areas including education, industry, medicine, and public health, as evidenced by many publications, patents, and awards; for contributions to STEM outreach to middle- and high-school students; and for growing leadership activities in her local community.

    To Claire Kelling for her extraordinary leadership and volunteerism in developing safe, supportive, and educationally rich environments, especially for girls and women, including participation in relevant state and national committees; for academic success in pursuit of a dual doctoral degree in statistics and social data analytics at The Pennsylvania State University; and for promising independent research in spatial statistics related to criminology.

Mentoring Award

The ASA Mentoring Award honors those recognized by their colleagues for their sustained efforts to champion the work and develop the careers of statisticians.

The 2019 ASA Mentoring Award honoree is Steven Schwager of Cornell University for more than 40 years of passionate dedication to the mentoring and personal and professional welfare of students, co-workers, and colleagues; for teaching and emphasizing that the role of statistician goes well beyond math and includes characteristics and values such as courtesy, respect, honesty, integrity, obligation, and empathy; for inspiring and providing council for many to pursue statistics as a career path; for teaching and inspiring mentees to mentor others; for offering and providing support, encouragement, and council in matters of statistics, education, consulting, professionalism, and life; for pushing mentees to achieve as much as possible, commending our success, and telling us—when necessary—that failures occur for each of us but we should not allow them to define us; and for treating mentoring as his ‘main job’ with a ‘life warranty.’

Award of Outstanding Statistical Application

This award celebrates the authors of a paper that is an outstanding application of statistics in the physical, biological, or medical sciences. The 2019 Outstanding Statistical Application Award honorees are Liangyuan Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Joseph Hogan, Brown University School of Public Health; Ann Mwangi, Moi University School of Medicine; and Abraham Siika, Moi University School of Medicine.

Causality in Statistics Education Award

Established in 2013 by Judea Pearl, professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA, this award recognizes the work of an individual or team that enhances the teaching and learning of causal inference in introductory statistics coursework. Peter Steiner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Julian Schuessler, Universität Konstanz, are jointly awarded the 2019 Causality in Statistics Education Award for their respective courses, “Design and Analysis of Quasi-Experiments for Causal Inference” and “Causal Graphs.” Both well-designed courses introduce a range of course causal inference concepts accessibly and rigorously to students working in a range of applied sciences, and each makes an independent and complementary contribution to statistical education in causality.

Jackie Dietz Best JSE Paper Award

Established in 2011, this award is given to the best paper published in the Journal of Statistics Education from the previous year. The 2019 Jackie Dietz Best Journal of Statistics Education Paper Award honorees are Nathan Tintle, Dordt College; Jake Clark, University of Iowa; Karen Fischer, Mayo Clinic; Beth Chance, Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo; George Cobb, Mount Holyoke; Soma Roy, Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo; Todd Swanson, Hope College; and Jill VanderStoep, Hope College, for their paper, “Assessing the Association Between Precourse Metrics of Student Preparation and Student Performance in Introductory Statistics: Results from Early Data on Simulation-Based Inference vs. Nonsimulation-Based Inference.”

Waller Awards

These honors—the Waller Distinguished Teaching Career and Waller Education awards—were established with a contribution from retired ASA Executive Director Ray Waller and his wife, Carolyn. The former recognizes an individual for sustained excellence in teaching and statistics education, and the latter honors an individual for innovation in the instruction of elementary statistics.

    The 2019 Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award honoree is Robert L. Gould of the University of California, Los Angeles in recognition of his many years of outstanding teaching and contributions to and creative efforts in statistical education.

    The 2019 Waller Education Award honoree is Benjamin Baumer from Smith College in recognition of his outstanding contributions to and innovations in the teaching of elementary statistics.

W.J. Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting

Established through a gift from the family of Wilfrid J. Dixon, this award recognizes outstanding contributions to the practice of statistical consulting. The 2019 W.J. Dixon Award for Excellence in Statistical Consulting recipient is Herbert Weisberg of Causalytics for his integrity and excellence in statistical consulting that fosters longstanding client relationships; for adding to the statistical body of knowledge and improving general statistical practice in varied areas of application; and for promoting greater understanding of statistical analyses through skilled, effective communication.

Karl E. Peace Award

The Peace award was established by Christopher K. Peace, son of Karl E. Peace, on behalf of the Peace family to honor the life work of his father. The 2019 Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society honoree is Joseph L. Gastwirth of The George Washington University in recognition of a distinguished career as a leading authority in the area of legal statistics who has developed novel methodological and theoretical statistical approaches to address economic and health inequalities, to combat discrimination, and to advance civil rights and social justice.

Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate Award

In 2002, the Chicago Chapter established the Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award in honor of Harry V. Roberts, an exemplar of statistical advocacy. The award recognizes the accomplishments and contributions of those who have successfully advocated appropriate and effective uses of statistics and data-analytic approaches in business and the public sector. Additionally, the award recognizes the promotion of statistical reasoning by individuals who may or may not be statisticians.

The 2019 Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award honoree is Howard Wainer.

Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award

The Wilks award honors the memory and distinguished career of Samuel S. Wilks and is bestowed upon a distinguished individual who has made statistical contributions to the advancement of scientific or technical knowledge, ingenious application of existing knowledge, or successful activity in the fostering of cooperative scientific efforts that have been directly involved in matters of national defense or public interest.

The 2019 Wilks award honoree is Alan E. Gelfand of Duke University for fundamental breakthroughs in Bayesian statistical theory and methods and his enrichment of the discipline through outstanding contributions to mentoring, teaching, service, and administration.

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