NOMINATIONS SOLICITED FOR 2005 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, presented at the NISS/SAMSI JSM Reception, recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.

The 2005 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. "Nonstandard" achievements, such as patents and software creation, will be considered.

Nomination letters (no supporting materials are necessary) should be submitted by May 13, 2005 to sacksaward05@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"

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

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