The ASA and five other statistical organizations joined to commend Andreas Georgiou for upholding the highest professional standards in his public service in the pursuit of integrity of statistical systems.
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Larry Hedges Awarded 2018 Yidan Prize for Education Research
Northwestern University professor Larry Hedges, a pre-eminent scholar and global heavyweight in education research, was awarded the 2018 Yidan Prize for Education Research, the world’s largest prize in education research.
Karl E. Peace Award Recognizes Work of Patrick Ball
The American Statistical Association’s 2018 Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society recognized the work of leading human rights mathematician Patrick Ball of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.
2018 Causality in Statistics Education Prize Winners Announced
The American Statistical Association awarded the sixth Causality in Statistics Education Prize to Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, and Bernhard Schölkopf for their open-access textbook, Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms.
Carol Gotway Crawford, Howard Hogan Honored with Mentoring Award
Carol Gotway Crawford and Howard Hogan are dual recipients of the 2018 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award, which recognizes individuals working in federal, state, and local government agencies for their efforts in mentoring junior statistical staff.
Obituary: Albert Philip Shulte
Albert Philip Shulte passed away May 4, 2017, at the age 82.
People News October 2018
Updates and achievements from ASA members for the month of October 2018.
Kreuter Selected as Links Lecturer
Frauke Kreuter—director of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park—has been selected as the inaugural Links Award lecturer.
People News August 2018
Awards, honors, and other news about ASA members for August 2018
Obituary: Charles Perry Jr.
Charles R. Perry Jr. died peacefully at home in Fairfax, Virginia, May 8, 2018, at the age of 81.