Dear ASA Community Member -
As Chair of COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) President's Award Committee, I am writing to solicit nominations for this award.
The award is open to junior members of the statistical community regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality or citizenship. We welcome your nominations from diverse group of eligible candidates.
Specifically, eligible candidates either i) will be under age 41 throughout the award calendar year, or ii) will be under age 46 throughout the award calendar year and will have received a terminal statistically-related degree no more than 12 years prior to that year. For example, an individual eligible for 2019 nomination under (ii) must have been born in 1974 or later with terminal statistically-related degree dated 2007 or later.
The nominee shall be a member of at least one of the participating societies. Nominees must be living at the time of their nomination.
Nominations may be made by members of any of the COPSS affiliated organizations. Prior nomination does not exclude a nominee from consideration in subsequent years. (Of course, you will need to submit a new nomination to be considered this year again. It is a new committee).
No member of the Award Committee, officer of COPSS, or societal member of COPSS shall be eligible to receive the award during his or her term of service.
Eligible nominations shall be based on a nomination letter, letters of support, curriculum vitae, and other appropriate documentation as requested by the Award Committee.
This is a high profile award that is intended to highlight innovative and meritorious work by our junior colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
The candidate may be chosen for contributions
• to the development and/or application of statistics as a discipline;
• comprising either:
• a single contribution of extraordinary merit to the profession of statistics, or
• an outstanding aggregate of contributions to the profession of statistics.
More info can be found at
http://community.amstat.org/copss/awards/presidents
ACTION: I am writing to encourage you to nominate an individual for this award. Please consider candidates in your department and/or broadly from our profession. The process is straightforward: a letter of nomination, a copy of the nominee's CV, and other letters of support are all that is needed.
The due date for nominations is January 15, 2019. Nominations should be sent to me (Sastry.Pantula@csusb.edu).
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Cheers,
Sastry
Sastry G. Pantula
Dean, College of Natural Sciences
107Biological Sciences Building
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California State University-San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397
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Sastry Pantula
Dean, College of Natural Sciences
California State University- San Bernardino
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