CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE EIGHTH ANNUAL JANET L. NORWOOD AWARD
For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences
The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are pleased to request nominations for the Eighth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The award will be conferred on Wed 9/16/2009. The award recipient will be invited to deliver a lecture at the UAB award ceremony, and will receive all expenses paid to deliver this lecture, a plaque, and a $5,000 prize.
Eligible individuals are women who have completed their terminal degree, have made outstanding contributions to the statistical sciences, and, if selected, are willing to deliver a lecture at the award ceremony.
To nominate a candidate, send a full curriculum vita accompanied by a letter of not more than two pages in length describing the nature of the candidate's contributions. Contributions may be in the area of development and evaluation of statistical methods, teaching of statistics, application of statistics, or any other activity that can arguably be said to have advanced the field of statistical science. Self-nominations are acceptable.
Please send nominations to:
David B. Allison, Ph.D.
Professor & Head Section on Statistical Genetics
Department of Biostatistics, RPHB 327
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1665 University Boulevard
Birmingham, Alabama 35294-0022
Phone: (205) 975-9169
Fax: (205) 975-2541
Email: dallison@uab.edu
Deadline for receipt of nominations is 6/29/2009. Electronic submissions of nominations are accepted and encouraged. The winner will be announced by 7/03/2009.
1st (2002): Dr. Jane F. Gentleman, Director of the Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics and Vice President of the American Statistical Association.
2nd (2003): Dr. Nan M. Laird, the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
3rd (2004): Dr. Alice S. Whittemore, Professor and Co-Chair of Health Research and Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Whittemore is a member of the Institute of Medicine, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a past President of the International Biometric Society.
4th (2005): Dr. Clarice R. Weinberg, Chief of the Biostatistics Branch of the NIEHS. Dr. Weinberg holds Adjunct Professorships at the University of North Carolina's Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. She was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1995.
5th (2006): Dr. Janet Turk Wittes, President of Statistics Collaborative Inc. Dr. Wittes is the previous Chief of the Biostatistics Branch of the NIDDK, as well as the past president of the International Biometric Society (ENAR) and the Society for Clinical Trials. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the Society for Clinical Trials.
6th (2007): Dr. Marie Davidian, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. Dr. Davidian is the 2004 past president of the International Biometric Society (ENAR). She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
7th (2008): Dr. Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard's School of Public Health. Dr. Lin is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She is a recipient of the COPSS President's Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.