The NISS Distinguished Service Awards were established by the Board of Trustees in 2005 to recognize individuals who have given extraordinary service that significantly advances NISS and its mission. Each year, one or more recipients are chosen by a committee composed of the Vice-Chair of the Board, the chair of the Awards Committee of the Board and the Director. Each receives a memento and has his or her name added to a plaque in the NISS building.
Jon R. Kettenring Drew University |
Stephen E. Fienberg Carnegie Mellon University |
2007 NISS Distinguished Service
Award recipients |
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| Citations for the 2007 Winners STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, for long-term
support of NISS, including long-time membership on the Board of Trustees,
service on major board committees (and chairing the 2000 director
search committee), leadership of digital government research, and
persistent willingness to speak positively about NISS. And throughout,
you have engendered civility and humor within NISS. JON R. KETTENRING, for long-term contributions to NISS, including your willingness to support NISS visibly in many contexts (among them, your 1997 ASA presidential address), your seminal role in creation of the affiliates program, your extraordinary stint as chair of the Board of Trustees, and your ceaselessly positive outlook about the future of NISS. Your help has been invaluable. |
2006 NISS Distinguished Service Award recipients:
Daniel Solomon (North Carolina State University), Nancy Flournoy (University
of Missouri),
Ingram Olkin (Stanford University), Jerome Sacks (Director Emeritus)
| Citations for the 2006 Winners NANCY FLOURNOY, for many roles in the formation of NISS, long-term service on the Board of Trustees, and continuing strong support of the NISS/SAMSI affiliates programs. INGRAM OLKIN, for multiple roles in articulating the importance of cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences, catalyzing the formation of NISS, participating in NISS projects and stimulating a continuing NISS presence in the social sciences. JEROME SACKS, for extraordinary service as founding director of NISS, setting the scientific standards and tone for NISS, and bringing the NISS building to reality. DANIEL SOLOMON, for long-term devotion in NISS in ways that are too numerous to list, but include preparation of the proposal to locate NISS in Research Triangle Park, serving as vice-chair of the NISS Board of Trustees and chair of the SAMSI Governing Board, being a repository of NISS history, and throughout having challenged NISS to succeed. |
| Citations for the 2005 Winners: ALBERT H. BOWKER: Your role in creation of an institute dedicated to cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences, including chairing the site selection committee, and service as initial chair of the Board of Trustees of NISS. DANIEL G. HORVITZ: Your roles in helping produce the North Carolina proposal for NISS, in creating NISS as a functioning organization, as the first treasurer of NISS and on the 1997 NISS building committee, as well as your long-term support of NISS leadership. JANET NORWOOD: Your multiple roles in the early stages of NISS, especially service on the site selection committee and as second chair of the Board of Trustees, and your long-term membership on the Board of Trustees. MARTHA WILLIAMSON: Your extraordinary devotion to NISS as administrative assistant since 1992, as well as your unflagging optimism about the future of NISS. |
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