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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award competition. 

We received many outstanding submissions this cycle and will again award two honorable mentions for exceptional scholarship, in addition to the two prizes for the top two papers. 

The 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award winners: 

• Andy Shen (UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics)
• Chengyu Cui (University of Michigan, Department of Statistics)

The 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award Honorable Mentions: 

• Daniel Suen (University of Washington, Department of Statistics)
• Wenbo Fei (Columbia University, Department of Biostatistics)

There will be an award ceremony at the Mental Health Statistics Section mixer at JSM 2025 to honor the winning submissions and honorable mentions and to present awards. We look forward to seeing you then! 

This year, nine MHSS members were selected to become ASA fellows. We congratulate

• Hongyuan Cao
• Guoqing Diao
• Birol Emir
• Tanya Pamela Garcia
• Samiran Ghosh
• Douglas D. Gunzler  
• John Kornak
• Michelle Shardell
• Min Zhang

Please join us in congratulating them on this accomplishment. There will be a special acknowledgement of these members at the Mental Health Statistics Section Mixer (co-hosted with the Heath Policy Statistics Section) at JSM.