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Linda Young Named West Texas A&M University Distinguished Alumni
ASA Founder and Fellow Linda Young was named one of West Texas A&M University’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni. Young earned her bachelor’s and master’s in mathematics at WT A&M.
Two Given Ellis R. Ott Scholarship for 2025–2026 Academic Year
Each year, the Ellis Ott Scholarship Governing Committee awards two $7,500 scholarships to promising master’s and PhD candidates pursuing advanced degrees in statistics and related disciplines. This year’s recipients are Blessed Mbogo and Aubree Krager.
Noel Cressie Honored with Jerome Sacks Award
Distinguished professor Noel Cressie at the University of Wollongong has been awarded the 2026 Jerome Sacks Award. The Sacks award recognizes sustained, high-quality, cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.
Nominations Sought for 2028 Waksberg Award
The journal “Survey Methodology” established an annual invited paper series in honor of the late Joseph Waksberg to recognize his outstanding contributions to survey statistics and methodology. Each year, a prominent survey statistician is chosen to write a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in survey statistics and methodology.
Call for Nominations: C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize
Members of the Rao Prize Committee are accepting nominations for the C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize for Outstanding Research in Statistics. Submissions are due January 15, 2027.
Meet New Member: Brie Coyne
Meet Brie, who started off as an English major who hated numbers until she read “Love and Math” by Edward Frenkel. A book that changed her life.
Akua Kwartemaa Owusu: Driven by Curiosity, Guided by Data
For Akua, statistics is about more than numbers. It is about using evidence responsibly to address health challenges, identify inequities, and improve outcomes for communities around the world.
Wu Receives the 2026 SSC Gold Medal
The award recognizes Changbao Wu’s outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of survey methodology.
Raftery Awarded the IFCS Research Medal
Adrian Raftery is recognized for his pioneering work on model-based clustering and foundational contributions to Bayesian model selection and Bayesian model averaging.