PEOPLE NEWS
Suraj Prakash Anand and
Juan Jia
A Toast to Student
Quintiles recently selected Suraj Prakash
Anand from North Carolina State
University and Juan Jia from the University
of California at Los Angeles as recipients
of its 2008 scholarship. Each will receive
$5,000. Quintiles offers the annual schol-
arship to students who demonstrate great
potential for leadership in the statistics/
biostatistics field.
Anand is a PhD student in statistics
who has a 3.98 GPA and has been work-
ing as a graduate industrial trainee in
clinical pharmacology and statistical sci-
ences at GlaxoSmithKline Research and
Development. He also holds a master’s degree
in statistics. Previously, Anand won the
Young Researcher Award at the International
Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary
Statistics and Combinatorics.
Ed Mulrow with his wife, Jeri Mulrow, in Ireland
Juan Jia is a PhD student in the biostatis- at the Gosset Plaque in the Guinness Brewery
tics program who maintains a 3.9 GPA. She
Storehouse; both are members of the ASA.
also received her master’s in biostatistics from
William Gosset worked as a chemist for Arthur
UCLA. Juan has worked as a graduate stu-
Guinness, the firm of brewers in Dublin. Gosset’s
dent researcher in the areas of cancer, nurs-
alias, “Student,” was 32 years old in 1908 when he
ing, and ophthalmology and recently won
published his most famous paper, “The Probable
the Dean’s Outstanding Student Award.
Eligible students must be in their final
Error of a Mean,” in Biometrika.
year of graduate study in statistics/bio-
statistics in a master’s or PhD program.
development,” said Schafer in announcing
The selection criteria includes academic
the selection. “I look forward to working
achievement; career objectives; letters of
with her as the NASS administrator.”
recommendations from faculty; student
Clark recently directed statistical
Smith Hanley
experience with teaching, tutoring, and/or
research and survey methodology for the
consulting; and industry exposure, includ- Winner Announced
United Kingdom’s Office for National
ing part-time work and internships. For
Statistics. Prior to that, she was at the U.S.
more information, contact Manisha Chugh
Census Bureau.
at Manisha.Chugh@Quintiles.com.
Undersecretary for Research, Education,
Cynthia Clark
and Economics Gale Buchanan announced
the selection to NASS staff. “NASS’ mis-
Agriculture Secretary sion of providing timely, accurate, and use-
Ed Schafer announced ful statistics is vital to the entire agricultural
the selection of Cynthia community,” said Buchanan. “I’m confi-
Clark as administrator dent Cynthia Clark’s extensive knowledge
of the USDA’s National and experience will help NASS continue to
Agricultural Statistics carry out this mission and lead to new and
Service (NASS). Clark exciting opportunities for the agency.”
will oversee the agen- Clark will lead NASS’ efforts to conduct
cy’s efforts to collect hundreds of surveys and issue nearly 500
David Loewen, an instructor at
Clark and disseminate data national reports each year on issues includ-
the University of Manitoba, was
on every facet of U.S. ing agricultural production, economics,
the winner of the Smith Hanley
agriculture. demographics, and the environment. NASS
“Cynthia Clark is known as an accom-
Associates raffle. He won a $200
also conducts the Census of Agriculture
plished statistician, highly respected both every five years, providing the only source
American Express gift card.
here in the United States and overseas of uniform, comprehensive agricultural
for her expertise in survey research and data for every county in the nation.
OCTOBER 2008 AMSTAT NEWS 49
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