To promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even-numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research contributions include innovations that have affected statistics practice and whose PhD degree is at least 25 years old.

The prize consists of an honorarium of $1,000 and travel to College Station, Texas, to present a lecture at the prize ceremony.

Nominations for the 2024 prize should include the following:

• A letter describing the nominee’s outstanding contributions to high-impact innovative research in statistics
• A current curriculum vita
• Two supporting letters

Nominations should be emailed by March 29 to Samiran Sinha, chair of the 2024 Parzen Prize Committee, or mailed to Samiran Sinha, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, TAMU 3143, College Station, TX 77843-3143.

The Parzen Prize is awarded by the department of statistics at Texas A&M University and selected by members of the Parzen Prize Committee (consisting of three internal faculty members and two external members). Recent winners include Bin Yu of the University of California, Berkley in 2018 and Herman Chernoff of Harvard University (emeritus) and Peter McCullagh of The University of Chicago in 2022.