NISS 2021 Jerome Sacks Award: Call for Nominations
Nominations are being sought for the 2021 National Institute of Statistical Sciences' (NISS) Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research. The prize recognizes sustained, high-quality, cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences. An award of $1,000 will be presented during the National Institute of Statistical Sciences reception at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Seattle, WA, August 7-12, 2021. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2021.
PROCEDURE: To nominate an individual, the nominator is asked to collect 2 letters of recommendation from others, (please be sure that the names and contact information of letter writers are included), and submit both of these letters together along with your own nomination letter and the most current version of the nominee's CV and submit this as ONE PDF document to sacksaward@niss.org by April 30, 2021: (please submit all 3 at one time/as one PDF)
- Nomination letter (maximum two pages),
- Supporting letters from two individuals (other than nominator), and
- The nominee's most current CV.
For more information, including a list of previous award winners, please see: https://www.niss.org/about/awards/jerome-sacks-award-outstanding-cross-disciplinary-research. Questions about the award or the nomination process can be sent to sacksaward@niss.org. Submissions can also be uploaded online at: https://www.niss.org/form/jerome-sacks-award-nomination-form as one PDF file.
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Randy Freret
Sr. Executive Assistant/Administrator
National Institute of Statistical Sciences
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