Graduate student recipients of the Kempthorne Award, the Vera David Fellowships and the Holly and Beth Fryer Scholarship were announced. (Photos below.)

Professor Koehler summarized the previous years activities and reviewed the upcoming activities, including plans to remodel Snedecor Hall, the new home for CSSM in the Research Park, and our temporary move to Wilson Hall.

Dan Nettleton, Associate Professor of Statistics at Iowa State University has been named the Laurence H. Baker Endowed Chair in Biological Statistics.

http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/nettleton-baker.shtml

Associate Professor

Research interests: Statistical Inference, Experimental Design, Statistical Genetics

Research interests: Mathematical Programming, Sampling Theory, Optimization, Software Reliability.

Recipient, Patrick Chapin

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.

Recipients, Bridget Lavelle & Cherie Alf

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.

Recipients, Adam Pintar & Emily Berg

This is awarded to a top graduate student for the third year of study with intention to complete the Ph.D. 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..