professor and Canada research projects. The award citation rec- COPSS awards the Presidents’
chair in statistical theory and ognized Cressie for “his pioneer- Award and Fisher lectureship
applications in the Department ing advances in statistical meth- annually, while the Snedecor and
of Statistics at the University of odology inspired by science and F.N. David awards are given bian-
Toronto. This award recognizes a engineering, particularly in nually in odd-numbered years
female statistician who exemplifies
the areas of spatial and spatio- and the Elizabeth Scott award is
the contributions of David. The
temporal statistics, and for his given biannually in even-num-
award citation recognized Reid for
vision and leadership in the statis- bered years. Each award consists
“her pioneering research in statis-
tical modeling of uncertainties in of a plaque, citation, and cash
tical asymptotics, her imaginative
environmental science.” honorarium. The award criteria
teaching, and her outstanding
The awards are sponsored by and nominating procedures are
record of service to the statistical
the ASA, IMS, Eastern North available at
www.niss.org/copss. n
profession.” Reid’s research inter-
American Region of the IBS,
ests are in asymptotic statistical
Western North American Region
theory, likelihood inference, and
of the IBS, and SSC.
applications to health and par-
ticle physics. She is co-author of
the book Applied Asymptotics: Case
Studies in Small-Sample Statistics.
Reid has been a strong advo-
cate for statistics in Canada and
internationally and an enthusias- The Gertrude Cox
tic mentor to young researchers.
She has served as president of the
Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
5k Race Winners
and Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (IMS) and as vice presi-
dent of the International Statistical
Institute. She has received numer-
ous awards, including the 1992
COPSS Presidents’ Award and the
2009 SSC Gold Medal.
The 2009 R. A. Fisher
Lectureship was awarded to
Noel Cressie of The Ohio State
University. The Fisher lecture-
ship honors the contributions of
sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher and the Quinlan O’Hair
work of a present-day statistician
and recognizes the importance of
statistical methods for scientific
investigations. Cressie gave a pre-
sentation titled “where, when,
M
ichelle Quinlan was this year’s Gertrude Cox 5k fun run
women’s winner, with a time of 20:41:00. The men’s win-
ner was Joel O’Hair, with a time of 17:05:00. This year
and Then Why.” He opened his
marked the 20th anniversary of the fun run, which takes place at the
lecture with historical background
Joint Statistical Meetings. The race was sponsored by RTI and orga-
on Fisher and a few humorous
nized by the Caucus for Women in Statistics and the ASA Committee
quotations attributed to him.
on Women in Statistics.
Then, he went on to discuss sta-
The Getrude Cox Scholarship was established in 1989 to encour-
tistical challenges involved in
age more women to enter statistically oriented professions. For more
analyzing large data sets and solu-
information about the Getrude M. Cox scholarship and an applica-
tions he proposed in a variety of
tion, visit
www.amstat.org/education/coxscholarship.cfm. n
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