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FALL WELCOME SEMINAR ... August 24, 2009
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Ken Koehler, Chair and Director and Co-DOGE, Alicia Carriquiry welcomed and inducted to the newly renovated Snedecor Hall: three new faculty, a lecturer, two visiting scholars, a new IT support specialist and 35 incoming graduate students at the Fall Welcome Seminar on Monday, August 24th. As the photo above indicates, Ken and Alicia's mild to dry sense of humor surfaced periodically.
Graduate student recipients of the Oscar Kempthorne Award, the Vera David Graduate Fellowship in Statistics Award and the Holly C. and E. Beth Fryer Award in Statistics were announced. There were also numerous awards to various faculty and students (see below).
Professor Koehler summarized successes from the previous year, including national awards won by faculty and students, the SPAIG award given to the Department of Statistics, and the success of the Snedecor Hall rededication, open house, conference and banquet for Dean Isaacson. He also shared what he did this past summer. Ken, Alicia, Vasant Honovar, Robert Jernigan and David Oliver wrote a proposal for an anticipated 24,000 sq. ft. addition to Snedecor Hall. This is an $11,000,000 NIST proposal. They are hoping to hear if it will be accepted next Spring.
Ken wrapped up the seminar by encouraging the students to "do good work", "be patient and cooperative", "get involved" and "have fun"!
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| New Faculty |
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Zhengyuan Zhu, Assistant Professor, PhD, 2002, University of Chicago
Research interests: Spatial statistics; time series analysis, optimal design for correlated data, long range dependent processes, applications to biostatistics, environmental statistics, network traffic modeling, survey sampling
Previous posiiton: UNC-Chapel Hill
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Chong Wang, Assistant Professor, VDPAM and Statistics PhD, 2006, Cornell University
Research interests: Diagnostic test evaluation, epidemiology, longitudinal data analysis, Bayesian statistical modeling, bioinformatics and genomics.
Previous position: Univ. of Kentucky
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Ulrike Genschel, Assistant Professor, PhD, 2005, University of Dortmund
Research interests: Statistics education, dimension reduction procedures, robust statistics, reliability
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| Lecturer |
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Todd Abraham, Lecturer, PhD, 2007, ISU Psychology
Research interests: Stability of personality characteristics during stressful life events
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| Visiting Scholars |
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Weechang Kang, Assoc. Prof., Daejeon Univ., South Korea
Research interests: Biostatistics, clinical trials, clustered binary data, analysis of longitudinal studies
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Yan Jiang, Assoc. Prof., Renmin University of China
Research interests: Sampling design, nonresponse error, marketing research and econometric modeling
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| New System Support Specialist III |
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Justin Funk, System Support Specialist III, Bachelors of Management Information Systems, ISU |
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| NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS 2009 |
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Daniel Able
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Robert Bell
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Joshua Bernhard
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Amy Borgen
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Yunhui Cao
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Emily Casleton
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Jason Crowley
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Brenna Curley
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Takisha Harrison
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Francisco Izquierdo Reyes
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Kevin Kasper
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Yew Meng Koh
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Dason Kurkiewicz
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Vanessa Kvam
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Cory Lanker
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Jie Li
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Jing Li
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Jun Li
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Hui Lin
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Hexuan Liu
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Lu Liu
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Dennis Lock
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Hong Lu
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Fanqi Meng
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Serdar Neslihanoglu
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Karsten Maurer
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David Osthus
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Matthew Simpson
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Bryan Stanfill
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Yihui Xie
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Ruo Xu
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Zhiwei Zhai
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Jian Zhang
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Yun Zheng
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Stephanie Zimmer
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FALL 2009 GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
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Ye Tian
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Oscar Kempthorne Award
Recipient, Ye Tian
This is a memorial fund
established to honor Oscar Kempthorne, former
Distinguished Professor of Statistics. He joined the Iowa State
College statistics faculty in 1947 and retired in 1989. This award is
given annually to a promising graduate student in the Department of
Statistics at ISU. Although Dr. Kempthorne was recognized
internationally for his contributions to statistics, he was most
passionate about his students and his teaching. Throughout his
professional life and into his retirement, he derived considerable
pleasure in learning of the accomplishments of former students.
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Rui Zhong
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Vera David Graduate Fellowship in Statistics Award
Recipient, Rui Zhong
This fellowship, in memory
of past director and head H. A. David's late wife Vera, is given to a
female student who has just completed her first year of graduate
studies. The Vera David Graduate Fellowship is awarded to top female
graduate students for the second year of study.
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Kristian Schmidt
Pingshou Zhong
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Holly C. & E. Beth Fryer Award in Statistics
Recipients, Kristian Schmidt and Pingshou Zhong
This is awarded to a top graduate student for the third year of study with intention to complete the PhD program.
The award is given to those graduate students who have completed Stat 642. Criteria include grades received in Statistics and related courses, performance in assistantship duties, and other information providing insight into the likelihood that the student will make career contributions to the statistics profession.
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The above Scholarship & Award recipients are selected by the Honors and Awards Committee, in consultation with the Department Chair each June.
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MORE AWARD RECIPIENTS: |
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ASA Founders Award
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W. Robert (Bob) Stephenson. This highly honored award was kept secret until JSM. It is not even put in the JSM program, but is printed in the following year's program!
This award was presented to Bob..."for sustained and outstanding efforts to improve statistics teaching through distinguished editorial work; for effective outreach to students, guiding the development of STATS, and directing Mu Sigma Rho; for being an inspiring role model throughout an award winning career as a statistics educator." Congratulations Bob!
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ASA and IMS Fellow
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Song Xi Chen. For fundamental and important contributions to empirical likelihood and nonparametric function estimation and for development of novel statistical techniques for estimation of animal abundance, analysis of financial data, and multiple system surveys. |
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Chambers Statistical Software Award
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Statistical Computing Section. |
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Data Expo
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(2nd place), went to Heike Hofmann, Di Cook, Chris Kielion, Barret Schloerke, Jon Hobbs, Adam Loy, Lawrence Mosley, David Rockoff, Yuanyuan Sun, Danielle Wrolstad and Tengfei Yin. |
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Ellis R. Ott Scholarship Award
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Wendy Kisch received this scholarship award in recognition of her academic achievements, her involvement in industry, contribution to teaching and otehr student activities, and her promise for future success. This national scholarship is awarded by the ASQ Statistics Division to a graduate student studying applied statistics and applications in quality management. "This is a very high honor to an extremely deserving student", Ken Koehler. Professor Steve Vardeman is her advisor. |
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Laha Travel Awards
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Awarded to Yili Hong, Wen Li, Yingli Qin. |
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Natrella Scholarship
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Quality and Productivity Section, was awarded to Adam Pintar. |
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SPAIG Award
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ISU and Los Alamos National Laboratory win the 2009 SPAIG Award (Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government). Our graduate students began visiting LANL in 2000 and this increased under our NSF Research Training Grant. Professors Meeker, Morris, Vardeman and Wilson have formal affiliations with LANL and a history of collaborative research. This is the second award the department has received. (More on SPAIG Award) |
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Student Paper Award
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Statistical Graphics Section (Twisted Sisters: Disentangling Selection in Overlapping Reading Frames), awarded to Wei-Chen Chen. Advisor, Karin Dorman. |
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