Award deadlines and information from the May 2011 issue of Amstat News.
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NIAID Awarded Contract to Develop Statistical Methods, Math Models
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded a five-year, $11.9 million contract to the University of Rochester Medical Center to continue the work of the Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling.
Section Congratulates Award Winners
During this year’s JSM in Vancouver, BC, Section Chair Dale Zimmerman presented several awards during the ENVR business meeting/mixer.
Priebe Wins Achievement Award
The Statistics in Defense and National Security (SDNS) Distinguished Achievement Award was presented to Carey E. Priebe during the section’s business meeting and mixer at JSM 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Priebe was given the award for outstanding leadership and accomplishments on research projects for the Navy, Army, Air Force, DARPA, and the intelligence community.
Member Funds JSE Award
William (Bill) I. Notz, a professor at The Ohio State University, recently approached the ASA with an offer to fund an award that recognizes the best paper published in the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) each year.
Researcher Wins ASA/NISS Award
Veronika Czellar of HEC Paris was honored recently with the Best y-BIS Paper Award, valued at $1,000 and sponsored by the ASA and National Institute of Statistical Sciences.
Fellow Award: Revisited (Again)
The 2010 ASA Fellow awards were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, earlier this month. This article presents a brief update to previous Amstat News articles on this subject. A few corrections have been made to previous counts of Fellow nominees and awardees.
NISS, SAMSI Win InSpire Award
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences was recently awarded the North Carolina Public Relations Society of America InSpire Bronze Best of Category Award for the social media category.
2010 Mortimer Spiegelman Award
The Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association invites nominations for the 2010 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, honoring a statistician aged 40 or younger who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics.
Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award Nominations Sought
Nominate an outstanding supervisor, technical director, team coordinator, or other member of a governmental statistical staff who encourages mentoring of junior staff in the federal, state, or local statistical system for the 2010 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award.