CHAPTER NEWS
Boston
De Veaux Named Mosteller Statistician of
the Year
R
ichard De Veaux of
Williams College was
awarded the Mosteller
Statistician of the Year award by
the ASA’s Boston Chapter dur-
ing a banquet and ceremony on
March 11 at Frontier Science in
Mosteller
Boston. To mark the occasion,
De Veaux gave an interesting talk, titled
“Lessons From the Trenches: What Data
Mining Teaches Me About Statistics.”
De Veaux has been professor of statistics
at Williams College since 1994. Previously,
he was an assistant professor at the Wharton
School and Princeton. He has won numerous
teaching awards, including a Lifetime Award Richard De Veaux and Dominique Haughton
for dedication and excellence in teaching
from the Engineering Council at Princeton
and the Wilcoxon and Shewell awards from
the American Society for Quality. De Veaux
is a Fellow of the ASA.
In 2006/2007, he was the Kenan Visiting
Professor for Distinguished Teaching at
Princeton University. In 2005/2006, he was
an invited professor at the Université Réné
Descartes in Paris (medical school), and
in 1997/1998 he was a visiting research-
er at the Institut National de Recherche
Agronomique in Montpellier, France.
De Veaux holds degrees in civil engi-
neering, mathematics, dance education, and
statistics. He has been a consultant for more
than 20 years for such Fortune 500 compa-
nies as Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, American
Express, Bank One, GlaxoSmithKline,
Dupont, Pillsbury, Rohm and Haas, Ernst
and Young, and General Electric. He holds
two U.S. patents and is the author of more
than 30 refereed journal articles. He is the
coauthor, with Paul Velleman and David
Bock, of Intro Stats, Stats: Modeling the
World, and Stats: Data and Models.
De Veaux’s hobbies include cycling,
swimming, singing (barbershop, doo-wop,
and classical), and dancing. He is the father
of two boys and two girls—all teenagers. ■
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