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The Mosteller award
is presented annually by
students win Undergraduate
the Boston Chapter and
is named after Fred
Mosteller, the first recipi-
Research Awards
ent of the award. Other
recipients include Herman
Chernoff, Marvin Zelen,
Ralph D’Agostino, William
DuMouchel, Don Rubin,
Nan Laird, David Hoaglin,
Richard Goldstein, Arlene
Ash, Cyrus Mehta, Alan
Gelfand, Alan Zaslavsky,
John McKenzie Jr., Louise
Ryan, Mei-Ling Lee, Carl
Morris, L. J. Wei, and
From left, steven somers, Marshall Gaddis, Kristen Gore, Nicole Bader, erika Burger, Ashley Myers, and
Richard DeVeaux.
Jennifer James at the Capitol, November 22, 2008
Obituary
Hendrik S. Konijn
T
en North Carolina State University undergraduate students majoring in statistics
applied for university-wide undergraduate research awards and won. Six of the students
are participating in the NSF-sponsored Computation for Undergraduates in Statistics
Program (CUSP) and two are participating in the NSF-sponsored Vertical Integration of
Hendrik Konijn, a retired
Research and Graduate Education (VIGRE) program. The NCSU-CUSP prepares students to
professor of statistics, died
engage in a significant research experience and to be fluent in the languages of computing,
in Oakland, California, on
mathematics, and statistics.
October 14. He was 90.
The students participated in four team projects, and each of four projects won $750 for a
Konijn helped set up the
total of $3,000 in awards. The students and their projects are as follows:
Department of Statistics
at Tel Aviv University and
Jason Leone and Jamie Pearce “Forecasting Wildfires and Examining the Impact of
taught in the departments
Global Climate Change” Also contributing is Stephanie Bruns, who will be graduating in
of mathematics and eco-
December. The work is being done for Linda Chappell of the Environmental Protection
nomics at UC Berkeley,
Agency (EPA).
the University of Sydney
Steven Somers, Ashley Myers, and Erika Burger “Can Blood Lead Levels in Children
(Australia), Yale, and the
Be Reduced?” The work is being done for Barry Nussbaum, chief statistician at the EPA.
University of Minnesota. He
also taught in the Graduate
Jennifer James, Camille Clark, and William Jeff Rice “Crustal Matter: Exploring the
Division of the City
Differences Between Ambient Air Samples and Emission Inventories” The work is being
University of New York.
done for Tom Pace and Josh Drukenbrod of the EPA.
During World War Kristen Gore and Nicole Bader “Meteorologically Adjusted Fine Particulate Matter
II, Konijn worked in Trend Analysis” Also contributing is Marshall Gaddis. The work is being done for
Washington, DC, for George Bridgers, Bebhinn Do, and Pat Bello of the North Carolina Department of the
the National Bureau of Environment and Natural Resources.
Economic Research, the
“Mentored research experience is enhancing the communication and technical skills of our
Combined Shipping
undergraduate students,” said Sastry Pantula, head of the Department of Statistics at North
Adjustment Board, and the
Carolina State University. “In addition, working with problems that are of interest to EPA and
Office of Strategic Services.
other agencies is gratifying to our students and brings awareness to important societal issues.”
Donations in honor of
Seven of the students presented their work at the 2008 Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and
his memory may be made
Student Research Conference in Washington, DC, on November 21, and four students (one
to the Jewish National Fund
will graduate in December and is not eligible to apply for the undergraduate award) presented
(www.jnf.org) or the General
their work at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium
Fund of Camphill Village,
(SNCURCS) in Boone, North Carolina, on November 22. Of the 246 undergraduate students
Office of Development, 84
from 26 universities and colleges, the SNCURCS poster by Jason Leone, Jamie Pearce, and
Camphill Road, Copake,
Stephanie Bruns was highlighted in a note to Erskine B. Bowles, president of The University
NY 12516. n
of North Carolina as “the team of NCSU statistics students studying the link between global
warming and increasing annual damage from wildfires.” n
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