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JSM 2024: Robert Tibshirani Wins 2024 COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship
COPSS selected Robert Tibshirani for the 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, which recognizes researchers who have made exceptional contributions to statistical methods with significant impact on scientific investigations.
UCS’s Science for Public Good Fund Targets Projects with Local Impact
The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Science for Public Good Fund offers grants up to $1,500 to support science in service to the public, making it ideal for a wide range of data for good advocates and projects.
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Honors Top Statisticians
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies honored four statisticians at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto, Canada, on August 9. These awards are jointly sponsored by the COPSS founding partner members: American Statistical Association; Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Eastern and Western regions of the International Biometric Society; and Statistical Society of Canada.
Building a Stronger Community at JSM 2023
The 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings—held in Toronto, Ontario, August 5–10—attracted more than 6,000 participants from academia, industry, and government and served as a platform for intellectual exchange, business discussion, friendship building, and networking.
Distinguished Achievement Award Lectureship Goes to Bin Yu
The Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship recognizes meritorious achievement and scholarship in statistical science and the significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations.
COPSS Chooses 8 for Leadership Academy
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession.
COPSS Honors 13 with Awards
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. For 2021, COPSS awards were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings on August 11 by COPSS Chair Bhramar Mukherjee and the award committee members.
Rina Foygel Barber Wins 2020 COPSS Presidents’ Award
The Presidents’ Award parallels the Fields Medal in mathematics and is given annually by COPSS to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. The Presidents’ Award and International Prize in Statistics are the two highest statistics honors.
Winners of the 2020 COPSS Awards
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. For 2020, three awards were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings on August 5 by COPSS Chair Bhramar Mukherjee and the award committee members.