The Gertrude M. Cox Award Committee is seeking nominations for the 2021 Gertrude M. Cox Award.
The award was established in 2003 through a joint agreement between the Washington Statistical Society (WSS) and RTI International. It annually recognizes an early to mid-career statistician (fewer than 15 years after terminal degree in statistics or related field) who has made significant contributions to one or more of the areas in which Gertrude Cox worked: survey methodology, experimental design, biostatistics, and statistical computing.
The award—which includes a $1,000 honorarium, travel expenses to attend the WSS Annual Dinner, and a commemorative WSS plaque—is presented at the WSS Annual Dinner, usually held in June, with the recipient delivering a talk on a topic of general interest to the WSS membership before the dinner.
In 1945, Cox became director of the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. In the 1950s, as head of the department of experimental statistics at North Carolina State College, she played a key role in establishing mathematical statistics and biostatistics departments at The University of North Carolina. Upon her retirement from North Carolina State University in 1960, Cox became the first head of the Statistical Research Division at the newly founded RTI. She was a founding member of the International Biometric Society (IBS) and, in 1949, became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. She served as president of both the American Statistical Association (1956) and IBS (1968–1969). In 1975, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Email nominations to Marcus Berzofsky by February, 28, 2021. The application should consist of the candidate’s CV (or a link to it) and a supporting statement from the nominator. Additional supporting statements can be submitted to strengthen the application.
If you previously nominated a candidate and wish that nomination to be reconsidered, you must resubmit the nomination.
The award committee consists of WSS President Jill Dever (co-chair), WSS Past President Eileen O’Brien, WSS President-elect Mark Otto, Daryl Creel of RTI, Phil Kott of RTI, and Marcus Berzofsky (co-chair) of RTI.
Recent recipients are Sharon Lohr, Alan Zaslavsky, Tom Belin, Vance Berger, Francesca Domenici, Thomas Lumley, Jean Opsomer, Michael Elliott, Nilanjan Chatterjee, and Amy Herring.
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