Other News
- Larry Shepp –
Research fellow at the Miller Inst. for Basic Research in Science, UC Berkeley, 1999.
- Selected as the first "Statistician in Residence" at the Univ of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC Canada - This is a newly endowed position at UBC. Sept. ’99.
- Elected to the Council of IMS, ’00-’02.
- Selected as one of 2 Foreign Mathematicians to be funded by CNRS (the French equivalent of our NSF ) 99/00.
- Served as the chair of the ASA section on Bayesian Statistical Science in ’99.
- Selected to give one of the IMS Special Invited Papers in 2001, JSM in Atlanta.
- Yehuda Vardi
- Named Professorship at Hebrew University under Lady Davies fellowship, Spring 2001.
- Susana Eyheramendy
, a Ph.D. student in the department, has received the 2001 Mary G. Natrella Scholarship from Quality and Productivity Section of ASA. It consists of $1,000 and a certificate of distinction.
- Yaning Yang
got the best student-paper-award at the ENAR meeting of the Biometrics society in 2000
- Angela Klein
welcomed her 1st grandson (5th grandchild) this year.
- Pat Wolf’
s daughter, Lynn, is starting graduate school at Temple University this Sept.