NOMINATIONS SOLICITED FOR 2009 JEROME SACKS AWARD

Annual Award Honors Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research

The NISS Board of Trustees established the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research in 2000 to honor Sacks’ service as the founding director of NISS. The annual prize of $1,000, to be presented this year at the NISS/SAMSI JSM Reception in Washington, DC, recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.

The 2009 award selection committee solicits nominations of researchers whose work is cross-disciplinary, sustained and encompasses innovation in the statistical sciences. Preference will be given to work that, in the spirit of NISS, creates new research relationships bridging the statistical sciences and other disciplines. Achievements, such as patents and software creation, will be considered.

Nomination letters -- no supporting materials are necessary -- should be submitted by May 31, 2009 to sacksaward09@niss.org.

Previous award winners are:

• 2001: Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington, for "research bridging the statistical sciences and genetics"
  
  
• 2002: Max Morris, Iowa State University, for "contributions to the statistical sciences, engineering, health physics, geology and toxicology"
  
  
• 2003: Raymond Carroll, Texas A & M University for "contributions to the statistical sciences, epidemiology, public health, nutrition, molecular cell biology and environmental toxicology"
  
  
• 2004: Douglas Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, for "contributions to the statistical sciences, both theory and practice, atmospheric science, climatology, environmetrics and the geosciences"
  
  
• 2005: C. F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology, for "outstanding statistical contributions to the design of experiments and quality improvement, and for bringing sound statistical ideas and applications to the engineering sciences"
  
  
• 2006: Adrian Raftery, University of Washington, for "outstanding contributions at the interface of the statistical sciences and the social, environmental and health sciences, as well as methodological research on Bayesian model selection and averaging"
  
  
• 2007: Cliff Spiegelman, Texas A&M, for "outstanding cross-disciplinary contributions to the statistical sciences, chemometrics, forensics, transportation and environmetrics"
  
  
• 2008: John Rice, University of California Berkeley: "outstanding, diverse cross-disciplinary contributions to ion channel receptors, energy demand, transportation, astronomy and functional data analysis"
  
  

For more information on NISS and the award, visit the NISS web site at www.niss.org/sacksaward/sacksaward.html.