Statistical Science
Student Awards
The John Walsh Award is given to the student with the most outstanding performance on the Ph.D. written exam.
The Paul Minton Award is given to the first year student with the best overall performance in class and the basic exam. Paul Minton Memorial Article (AmStat News, Sept 2008)
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The
Scheuren Award
for Academic Excellence is given to two first-year students
for outstanding performance in the theory and applied portions,
respectively, of the first-year curriculum. The first recipients of this
award are Tracy Xu and Kinfemichael Gedif (2004).
Luke Peterson and Lisa Cannon are the winners of this award in 2005.
Getaneh Yismaw is the 2006 winner of the Scheuren
Award and Heather Lin is the 2007 winner.
The following is a list of recipients of the WALSH and MINTON Awards:
Walsh Award |
Minton Award |
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| 2007 | EJ Liao, Ke Wang & Getaneh Yismaw | Fang Duan |
| 2006 | James Haney | Fan (Frank) Hu |
| 2005 | Kinfemichael Gedif | Darcie Delzell and James Haney |
| 2004 | Katherine Lin | Yan Wang |
| 2003 | Qihua (Katherine) Lin | |
| 2002 | Huiping Jiang | |
| 2001 | Karla Genter | Shuyi Shen |
| 2000 | Jian Han |
Eun-Ha Choi Yan Zhong |
| 1999 | Krista B. Cohlmia |
Karla H. Genter Chu-Ping Vijverberg |
| 1998 | Jeff Pitblado | Krista Blevins Cohlmia |
| 1997 | None Awarded | Jeffrey Pitblado
Brent Juusola |
| 1996 | None Awarded | Jorge Montemayor |
| 1995 |
Mike Ernst,
An Jia Ying Wan, Jinping Wang |
Molly Hartfield |
| 1994 | Greg Miller | Stephen Wiechecki |
| 1993 | Tommy Fu and James Miller | Mike Ernst |
| 1992 | None awarded |
Tommy Fu James Miller |
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| 1990 |
M. S. Moon David Daniel |
Patrick Gerard |
| 1989 |
Warren Bao Joyce Wellman |
John Han |
| 1988 | None Awarded | M. S. Moon |
| 1987 |
Helen Li Fred Curtis |
Joyce Wellman |
| 1986 | Michael Ames | None |
| 1985 |
David Lamb Miriam Reilman |
Fred Curtis |
| 1984 |
Tom Carmody Lori Thombs |
Michael Ames |
| 1983 | J. C. Shyu | Miriam Reilman |
