Faculty Awards and Activities

The National Academy of Sciences elected Distinguished University Professor

Katharine Abraham (ECON/JPSM/ Maryland Population Research Center) to its 2022 cadre of 120 members and 30 international members. The honorees were recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

“I am truly honored to have been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy has a well-earned reputation for providing independent and objective analysis and advice to the nation. I hope to be able to contribute to that work,” Abraham said.

Professor Yan Li gave a presentation for the 29th annual Morris Hansen Lecture in 2022. Being asked to deliver this lecture is an honor, as the series was established by the Washington Statistical Society and Westat to honor Morris Hansen. His pioneering contributions to survey sampling and related statistical methods during his career at the Census Bureau and at Westat established many standards and methods, mostly still in use, for the conduct of surveys.

Professor and Director Partha

Lahiri received the Neyman Medal in a joint session of the 3rd Congress of Polish Statistics and 2022 International Association of Official Statistics held in Krakow, Poland. Established in 2012 on the 100th anniversary of the Polish Statistical Association, the Neyman Medal is awarded for outstanding contributions to the development of statistical sciences. The award was established in honor of Jerzy Neyman, the most outstanding statistician of Polish origin and one of the pioneers of modern statistics. •

JPSM-World Bank Training Program in Sampling Techniques

WITH FUNDING FROM the World Bank, the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) designed an innovative remote training delivery mode for a 10-week intensive training program providing a much-needed overview of survey sampling procedures to statisticians at the National Bureau of Statistics and academic institutions in Tanzania.

The World Bank received more than a thousand applications to their call to enter this JPSM training program. Ultimately, 20 students were selected to take the training course.

“Our World Bank colleagues say that many graduates are currently applying this JPSM training to technically support the sampling activities of such upcoming surveys as the National Panel Survey, the Household Budget Survey, the Annual Agricultural Sample

Survey, the Financial Scoping Survey, and more,” Professor and Director Partha Lahiri said. “We expect that this new training delivery mode will play a major role in capacity building.”•