Many Honored at Presidential
Address, Awards Ceremony
H
ighlighting the AsA Morita, Bob Rodriguez, W. Robert Science and co-editor of CHANCE;
Presidential Address and Stephenson, and Jessica Utts. and for exceptional service and
Awards Ceremony dur- Stephen E. Feinberg of leadership in a wide variety of pro-
ing the Joint Statistical Meetings Carnegie Mellon University for fessional and government-related
in washington, DC, were the outstanding leadership and contri- consultant activities.
announcement of the Founders butions in Bayesian approaches to June Morita of the University
Award winners and the official the analysis of contingency tables, of Washington for outstanding
induction of 57 ASA Fellows. confidentiality and data disclo- leadership; for energetic service
sure, and legal decisionmaking; to the association as chapter
Founders
for distinguished service on the president, regional vice chair and
The Founders Award is given for
ASA Board of Directors, includ- chair of the Council of Chapters,
extended, outstanding service to
ing his role as vice president; for and a member of the Council of
the statistics profession through
long-term active involvement in Sections Governing Board, the
a variety of leadership roles. As
ASA committees and remarkable Board of Directors, and numer-
in prior years, the names of the
leadership and participation in ous committees; for initiating,
winners remained a closely held
sister organizations; for superior promoting, and sustaining effec-
secret until the ceremony. The
editorial activities past and pres- tive programs to enhance quan-
2009 Founders Award winners
ent, including editor of Annals titative and statistical literacy in
are Stephen E. Feinberg, June
of Applied Statistics and Statistical schools nationally and interna-
tionally, including Making Sense
of Statistical Studies and programs
to prepare undergraduates as
mathematics/statistics tutors in
middle schools; and for setting a
standard of fun and excitement to
the Council of Chapters activities
at association meetings.
Bob Rodriguez of the SAS
Institute for extraordinary lead-
ership and service in crafting
the ASA Strategic Plan and for
obtaining a broad consensus for
its implementation; for serving
as a vice president of the ASA;
for editorial services to the asso-
ciation; for playing a critical role
in software development for lin-
ear models and statistical quality
improvement at SAS; for serving
as the editor-in-chief of the ASA-
SIAM Series on Statistics and
Applied Probability and as an
associate editor for The American
Statistician; and for serving
in leadership roles in the Section
on Physical and Engineering
Sciences and on the Committee
on Publications.
W. Robert Stephenson of
Iowa State University for sustained
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