Noether Award
The Noether Awards Committee is currently seeking nominations Deadlines and Contact Information
for the Noether Senior Scholar and Young Scholar awards. The
for ASA National Awards, Special
Noether Senior Scholar Award is bestowed upon a distinguished
individual who has made outstanding contributions to the meth-
Lectureships, and COPSS Awards
odology and/or theory and teaching of nonparametric statistics that
have had substantial, sustained impact on the subject, its practical
December 7, 2008 Nicholas I. Fisher
ASA Deming Lectureship Chair, Deming Lectureship
applications, and its pedagogy. The Noether Young Scholar Award
Visit
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Committee
is bestowed upon a distinguished researcher, younger than 35 years
cfm?fuseaction=deming for details
University of Sydney
of age, who has made significant research accomplishments in non-
and nomination forms. If you have
School of Math & Stat., F07
questions, contact the committee
Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
parametric statistics. The Noether Senior Scholar receives a crystal
chair.
nif@valuemetrics.com.au
award and $5,000 and presents a lecture at the Joint Statistical
Meetings. The Noether Young Scholar receives a crystal award and
December 15, 2008 Jeremy Taylor
COPSS Fisher Lectureship and Award Chair, Fisher Lecturer Committee
$2,500 and presents a lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings the
Visit
www.niss.org/copss for nomina-
Department of Biostatistics
year after the award is received. Nominations are due by December tion information.
University of Michigan
1420 Washington Heights
31, 2008. Visit
www.amstat.org/awards/index.cfm?fuseaction=noether
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
for nomination information. If you have questions, contact Carlos
jmgt@umich.edu
J. Morales, committee chair, at
cmorales@wellington.com.
December 31, 2008 Carlos J. Morales
ASA Noether Senior and Young Chair, Noether Awards
Fellow
Scholar Awards Committee
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Wellington Management
Fellow nomination packages must be received by Monday, March cfm?fuseaction=noether for nomina-
Company, LLP
3, 2009. Fellow nominees for 2009 must have had continuous ASA
tion information. If you have ques-
75 State Street
tions, contact the committee chair.
Boston, MA 02109
membership between March 1, 2006, and February 28, 2009. Also,
cmorales@wellington.com
nominees should not have already been inducted. A searchable list
January 15, 2009 Marianthi Markatou
of ASA Fellows, the nomination form, and guidelines are available COPSS George W. Snedecor Award Chair, Snedecor Award
at
www.amstat.org/fellows.
Visit
www.niss.org/copss for nomina-
Committee
tion information.
Department of Biostatistics
722 West 168th Street, Room 632
Columbia University
SPAIG
New York, NY 10032
mm168@columbia.edu
The American Statistical Association, through the Statistical
January 15, 2009 Juliet Shaffer
Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government COPSS Florence Nightingale Chair, FN David Award
Committee, is seeking nominations for the 2009 SPAIG Award.
David Award Committee
This award differs from other ASA awards in that it recognizes
Visit
www.niss.org/copss for nomina-
Department of Statistics
organizations, instead of individuals. The partnership must include
tion information.
325 Evans Hall
University of California-Berkeley
an academic institution and an industry or government institution
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
shaffer@stat.Berkeley.edu
where at least one of the institutions is located in the United States.
If you have an ongoing partnership, please consider applying for the
January 15, 2009 Mark van der Laan
award. The winners receive an engraved award that is presented at the
COPSS Presidents’ Award Chair, Presidents’ Award
awards ceremony during the Joint Statistical Meetings. Nominations
Visit
www.niss.org/copss for nomina-
Committee
tion information.
Biostatistics & Statistics
are due by March 5, 2009. Visit
www.svsu.edu/orgs/spaig/awards.html
University of California, Berkeley
108 Haviland Hall
for details and nomination forms. If you have questions, contact Jai
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
Won Choi, committee chair, at
jchoi@mcg.edu.
laan@berkeley.edu
March 3, 2009 John H. Thompson
Fellows Award National Opinion Research Center
Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship
Visit
www.amstat.org/fellows for
55 E. Monroe Street, Suite 4800
The Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship Committee is accepting appli-
nomination information. If you have
Chicago, IL 60603-5805
questions, contact the committee
THOMPSON-JOHN@norc.org
cations for 2009. Application is limited to women who are citi-
chair.
zens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada and
who are admitted to a graduate statistics (including biostatistics
March 5, 2009 Jai Won Choi
SPAIG Award Chair, SPAIG Award
and other statistical sciences) program by July 1 of the award year.
Two awards will be made, one to a woman in or entering the early
Visit
http://www.svsu.edu/orgs/spaig
NCHS, 153 Brickinridge Drive
for nomination information. If you
North Augusta, SC 29841
stages of graduate training (MS or PhD) and one to a woman in have questions, contact the commit-
jchoi@mcg.edu
a more advanced stage of training. Each recipient receives a cer-
tee chair.
tificate and cash prize, presented at the awards ceremony during
the Joint Statistical Meetings. The current amount of the prize is
$4,000, which is divided evenly among the winners. Applications
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are due by March 15, 2009. Visit
www.amstat.org/awards/index.
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