Press Releases

Below are press releases from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.

Air Pollution Effects Measured by PM2.5 Not Consistent Across United States

S. Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics for the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), and Jessie Q. Xia, former NISS postdoctoral fellow, report on the re-analysis of a data set used in a 2009 New England Journal of Medicine paper by C. Arden Pope, III, and co-authors.... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

NISS Elects New Board Members

The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) named Mary Batcher, Ernst & Young, and Robert Rodriguez from SAS Institute to the Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2013. Karen Kafadar, Indiana University and Fritz Scheuren, NORC at the University of Chicago, were... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

NISS Associate Director and Trustees Named AAAS Fellows

December 13, 2012, Washington D.C - Nell Sedransk, Associate Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Also elected were two members of the NISS Board of Trustees: Karen Kafadar,... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

William Q. Meeker Receives the 2012 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research

The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) has presented the 2012 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to Dr. William Q. Meeker, Iowa State University. Susan Ellenberg, chair of the Board of Trustees, announced the award at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego,... more
Posted by: Katherine Kantner

Landwehr and Young Receive the 2012 NISS Distinguished Service Awards

James Landwehr and Linda Young are this year's recipients of the Distinguished Service Awards from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The awards were presented by NISS director Alan Karr at the NISS/SAMSI reception at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego, California... more
Posted by: Katherine Kantner

Yili Hong Awarded 2012 y-BIS Best Paper Award

Yili Hong, Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, received this year’s Young Statisticians in Business and Industry (y-BIS) Award. The award recognizes the best paper, based on both content and delivery, presented by an early career researcher at the International... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

NISS Receives Five-Year Grant from NSF for Triangle Census Research Network

The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and Duke University received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Census Bureau  for the Triangle Census Research Network (TCRN).  The award, one of eight nationwide under the NSF-Census Research Nodes... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

In article in Significance Magazine, Young and Karr Propose Ways to Improve How Observational Studies are Conducted

S. Stanley Young, assistant director for bioinformatics at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), and Alan Karr, director at NISS, have published a non-technical article in the September issue of Significance magazine pointing out that medical and other observational studies often... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

Emery N. Brown, MD, PhD Receives the 2011 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research

The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) has presented the 2011 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to Dr. Emery N. Brown of MIT and Harvard. Susan Ellenberg, chair of the Board of Trustees, announced the award at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meetings in Miami, Florida... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

Rosenberger and Utts Recipients of the 2011 NISS Distinguished Service Awards

James Rosenberger and Jessica Utts are this year's recipients of the Distinguished Service Awards from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The awards were presented at a NISS-sponsored reception at the Joint Statistical Meetings that were held recently in Miami, Florida. The... more
Posted by: Jamie Nunnelly

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