PEOPLE NEWS
Karl Peace
David L. Donoho Receives
Georgia Southern University
Honorary Degree
faculty member Karl E.
Peace was recently honored
on the floor of the U.S.
House of Representatives for
his numerous professional
and charitable contributions.
Peace is a Georgia Cancer
Coalition Distinguished
Cancer Scholar, senior
research scientist, and pro-
fessor of biostatistics in the
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of
Public Health at Georgia
Southern University.
Peace
Rep. Robert Wittman
(R-VA) cited Peace’s numer-
inclusion in the Cong-
ous contributions to drug
ressional Record,” said Peace.
research and development,
“This is good for the schools
public health, biostatistics,
with which I’ve been associat-
and philanthropy. He said,
ed and especially for our
“Dr. Peace has a dedicated
Jiann-Ping Hsu College of
record of philanthropy to
David Donoho and the Chicago Department of statistics. From left:
Public Health at Georgia
education. He has created 21
Peter mcCullagh, Dan Nicolae, mathias Drton, David wallace, Ron
Southern University.”
endowments at five institu-
thisted, David Donoho, michael stein, stephen stigler, mary sara
Peace was recently elected
tions, including three at his
mcPeek, steve Lalley, Debashis mondal, and mei wang
as the chair-elect of the statis-
alma mater—the Medical
tics section of the American
College of Virginiaa— nd one
Public Health Association.
O
n October 9, David L. Donoho received the hon-
at Randolph-Macon College.
orary degree of Doctor of Science from The
He is the founder of the
He endowed the Jiann-Ping
University of Chicago. The occasion was a special
Biopharmaceutical Applied
Hsu College of Public
convocation, the 500th in the university’s history, and
Statistics Symposium and the
Health, the first school of
Donoho’s was one of four degrees awarded.
Journal of Biopharmaceutical
public health in the Univ-
In presenting the degree, the university’s president—
Statistics.
ersity of Georgia system. His
mathematician Robert Zimmers— aid, “David L. Donoho
Peace is the recipient of
endowments have enabled
is a mathematical statistician and also one of the more influ-
numerous citations and
hundreds of students to com-
ential applied mathematicians of his generation. Building
awards and is a Fellow of the
plete their undergraduate or
upon the discipline of statistics, Donoho has developed
American Statistical
graduate degrees. Dr. Peace
effective new approaches to constructing low-dimensional
Association. He is also the
has generously donated time
representations for modern high-dimensional data prob-
author or editor of nine
and resources to organiza-
lems. His work provides new insight into some of the most
books and the author or co-
tions such as the American
pressing scientific questions of the present day.”
author of 200 articles. His
Cancer Society, the Georgia
Donoho is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in
autobiography, Paid in Full,
Cancer Coalition, the
the Humanities and Sciences and professor in the depart-
was released earlier this year
Southeast Georgia Cancer
ment of statistics at Stanford University.
and traces his life from his
Alliance, and the Southwest
The University of Chicago awards honorary degrees only
childhood on a sharecropping
Georgia Cancer Coalition
for distinguished scholarship. Previously, honorary degrees
farm in Georgia to his rise in
that are dedicated to cancer
have gone to R. A. Fisher, Harold Hotelling, Jerzy Neyman,
the pharmaceutical industry
research, treatments, and
Maurice S. Bartlett, John W. Tukey, Fred Mosteller, Erich L.
and to his work in higher
cures.”
Lehmann, Charles M. Stein, Ulf Grenander, Bradley Efron,
education and philanthropy.
“I am grateful to con-
David Aldous, Persi Diaconis, and Grace Wahba. n
Read more about Peace’s
gressman Wittman for his
contributions at https://
acknowledgement of my
my.georgiasouthern.edu/index.
achievements on the floor of
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the U.S. Congress and their
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