Submit your nominations for the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences by July 26.
Janet Norwood Award
Nominations Wanted for Norwood Award
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health and Department of Biostatistics request nominations for the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences.
Janet Wittes
Janet Wittes was leaning toward a major in biochemistry at Radcliffe College until faculty mentor John Edsall noted her preference for inference and guided her to statistics. In 1970, with two toddlers in tow, Wittes and her husband—physician Robert E. Wittes—moved to Bethesda, Maryland, where she worked part time as a postdoctoral researcher with Jerome Cornfield at The George Washington University and he served in the USPHS Commissioned Corps as a Yellow Beret. She founded a consulting firm, Statistics Collaborative, in 1990 and remains its president.
Judith D. Singer
An internationally renowned statistician and social scientist, Judith D. Singer’s scholarly interests focus on improving the quantitative methods used in social, educational, and behavioral research. She is primarily known for her contributions to the practice of multilevel modeling, survival analysis, and individual growth modeling—and to making these and other statistical methods accessible to empirical researchers. She is senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity and James Bryant Conant Professor of Education at Harvard University.
Francesca Dominici
Francesca Dominici always loved mathematics and probability, but statistics was love at first sight because she could become an expert in different fields as long as there was data. Her studies have directly and routinely affected air quality policy and led to more stringent ambient air quality standards in the United States. For her contributions, she has earned the Janet Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences.