future technologies and a role model and for the U.S. government, analyzing popu-
advocate for others. As a mathematician, his lation patterns. He started working for the
current research focuses on nonlinear optimi- U.S. Census Bureau in 1946 as a social sci-
STATISTICIANS
zation with an emphasis on methods for par- ence analyst and, in less than a year, was laid
allel computing. He also has worked on vari- off. After completing his graduate work in IN THE NEWS
ous scientific and engineering applications, sociology from the University of Wisconsin,
including scalable methods for nanoscience, he was hired again at the bureau to work on
power grid reliability, molecular conforma- the 1950 Census.
Read about your colleagues
tion problems, optimal design of chemical In 1953, Beale took a job in the and friends in the news. Go to
vapor deposition furnaces, and semiconduc- demographic unit of the Department of
www.amstat.org and click on
tor device modeling. He is both a national Agriculture, where he worked with farm
“Statisticians in the News.”
and international speaker on topics ranging population and labor. His demographic
from his own research to the importance of research required him to travel widely, and
diversity. Recently, he gave a presentation as his experiences are described in A Taste of
the 2008 Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium the Country: A Collection of Calvin Beale’s
Speaker for the University of Michigan’s Writings, published in 1990 by the Rand
Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. Population Research Center.
Meza’s record of service to communities Beale was a member of the Population
under-represented in mathematics includes Association of America, the Southern
chairing the Mathematical Sciences Research Demographic Association, the Association
Institute (MSRI) Human Resources Advisory of American Geographers, and the Rural
Who Won the Olympics
Committee and co-chairing the annual Sociological Society.
Forecasting Competition?
diversity day workshops of the Society for For more information about the life
Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has and work of Beale, visit
www.ers.usda.gov/
The Wall Street Journal Numbers
served on high-level advisory committees, Amberwaves/Feb03/Profiles/beale.htm.
Guy, Carl Bialik, asks ASA members
working directly with early career mathemat-
Shane Reese and Scott Berry to
ics students from under-represented groups.
review the measure of how closely
In addition to his other recognitions,
Obituary
economic researchers projected the
Meza will also receive the 2008 Distinguished
medal count, by country, before the
Scientist Award from the Society for the James H. P. Hughes
Olympic Games began.
Advancement of Chicanos and Native
James Henry Pius Hughes, 96, an atmo-
Americans in Science (SACNAS), presented
Another Storm Brewing
spheric physicist at the Office of Naval
October 9 at the 2008 SACNAS National
for Vytorin
Research (ONR), died April 13, 2008, at
Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington,
Matthew Herper of Forbes magazine
DC. He lived in McLean, Virginia.
talks to Oxford University statistician
Hughes became director of ONR’s atmo-
Richard Peto about the studies
Karl E. Peace
spheric physics program in 1975 and worked
linking the cholesterol drug Vytorin
Karl E. Peace, Georgia Cancer Coalition
in atmospheric testing until his retirement
to cancer.
Distinguished Cancer Scholar, senior
in 1988. As a science administrator, he pro-
research scientist, and professor of biostatis-
moted basic research and secured funding for
Web Site Helps Students
tics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public
numerical atmospheric modeling projects
Rate Professors
Health at Georgia Southern University, was
and new concepts in aerosols and cloud phys-
Peter Moschopoulos, statistics
named the 2008 recipient of the Award
ics. He also secured funding for a 1965 inter-
teacher at The University of Texas at
for Excellence in Research and Scholarly
national workshop, titled “Possible Responses El Paso, weighs in on whether the
Activity at Georgia Southern’s Convocation
of Weather Phenomena to Variable Extra- rating results from the web site www.
Ceremonies on August 13, 2008.
Terrestrial Influences.”
ratemyprofessors.com give professors
He was born in New York and graduated a fair evaluation.
from New York University. He received cre-
Obituary
dentials in aerological engineering from the Return of Serve (and Volley)?
post-graduate school at the Naval Academy
Aron Pilhofer, writing for the tennis
Calvin Beale
in 1943, and, during World War II, he served
blog of The New York Times asks Leo
Calvin L. Beale, a
in the Navy in the Aleutian Islands.
Levin, head statistician for IBM and the
demographer with
He was a member of the Cosmos Club,
U.S. Open, if the tennis style of serve-
the Department of
the Royal Meteorological Society, the
and-volley is making a comeback.
Agriculture, died
Meteorological Society of Japan, and the
September 1, 2008;
American Geophysical Union.
Read these and other stories at
he was 85.
His wife of 53 years, Charlotte P. Donlan,
www.amstat.org.
For more than 50
died in 1995. n
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years, Beale worked
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