UC Berkeley School of Public Health Faculty Win Major International Statistics Awards
Biostatistics professors from the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley were presented with two of the top statistics awards at the 2005 Joint Statistical Meeting in Minneapolis. Dr. Mark van der Laan and Dr. Nick Jewell each received honors for outstanding achievements in the field.
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies presented Dr. van der Laan with the 2005 Presidents’ Award, given annually to a young member of the statistics community in recognition of extraordinary merit. The Committee of Presidents, which represents four of the major international statistical organizations, recognized Dr. van der Laan’s work in several areas of theoretical and applied statistics, including causal inference in longitudinal studies and computational biology. Recipients must be age 40 or younger to be eligible for the award.
Dr. Nick Jewell received the prestigious 2005 George W. Snedecor Award for an outstanding publication in biometry. The award recognizes an individual who has been instrumental in the development of statistical theory in biometry. Jewell was honored for his paper, “Case-control current status data,” which appeared in a 2004 issue of the journal
Biometrika.
