PEOPLE NEWS
Subhash Aryal
Subhash Aryal, a PhD student in the
STATISTICIANS
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division
and Center for Health Statistics at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, received
IN THE NEWS
the 2008 Haenszel Research Award. The
Haenszel Research Award is presented
Read about your colleagues and friends in the news. Go to
annually to an outstanding student in the
www.amstat.org and click on “Statisticians in the News.”
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division
during a special awards ceremony. The
intent of the award is to foster high-quality
research among epidemiology and biosta-
tistics students.
Sujit Ghosh, Sayan
Mukherjee, Anindya Roy
Sujit Ghosh of North Carolina State
University, Sayan Mukherjee of Duke
University, and Anindya Roy of University
of Maryland Baltimore County recently
received the International Indian Statistical
Association’s Young Statistician Award for
their outstanding contributions to statistics
The Pentagon’s Latest Recruits: Professors
and its applications. The awards were pre-
sented at IISA’s conference at the University
The Defense Department formed the first group of the National Security
of Connecticut on May 24.
Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows. Read how the enlisted—including
ASA member Carey E. Priebe—will conduct research for the nation’s military.
William Bell and
Guatemala: The Secret Files
Robert Groves
How Silicon Valley helps uncover a dirty war
Submitted by Robert Parker,
Julius Shiskin Award Committee Chair
PBS’ “Frontline World’s” Clark Boyd travels to Guatemala and highlights
the humanitarian work of statistician Patrick Ball of Benetech. View the
William R. Bell, a senior mathemati-
video about how a simple database application has the potential to bring
cal statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau,
human rights perpetrators to justice. www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/
and Robert M. Groves, director of the
guatemala704
Survey Research Center of the University
of Michigan Institute for Social Research,
Related coverage on Patrick Ball and Benetech’s work:
have been selected as the recipients of the
The Forensic Humanitarian - The New York Times, www.nytimes.
2008 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for
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Economic Statistics. This award recognizes
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unusually original and important contribu-
tions in the development of economic sta- A Human Rights Statistician Finds Truth in Numbers - The Christian
tistics or in the use of statistics in interpret- Science Monitor, www.csmonitor.com/2008/0207/p20s01-wogn.html
ing the economy.
Bell is recognized for innovative statisti-
Why U.S. Infants Die Too Often
cal research that led to improved economic
statistics through important contributions
Marian MacDorman, a statistician at the National Center for Health
to the theory and practice of seasonal adjust-
Statistics, helps explain.
ment, small area estimation, and time series
Terrorism Study Drops a bombshell on boise
modeling. Groves is recognized for innova-
tive statistical research that led to improved
Which city in the United States is most vulnerable to a terrorist attack?
economic statistics through important
ASA member Walter W. Piegorsch, a professor at the University of Arizona,
contributions to the theory and practice of shares his coauthored four-year study with Lyndsey Layton and Ashley
survey methods for the conduct of sample Surdin of the The Washington Post.
surveys of both households and establish-
ments. Bell and Groves are the 34th and
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