William S. Connor Award

The William S. Connor Award is presented to the graduate student whom the faculty deems the most outstanding among those students passing the preliminary examinations during the current year. Thus, a winner is not selected until the beginning of the year following the year designated on the award. The award reads: Presented by the faculty of the Department of Statistics to outstanding Ph.D. candidates in memory of a former colleague Dr. William S. Connor scholar, teacher, and gentleman.

 

1967- B. R. Waldron 1996- Jeffrey D. Maca
1968- F. M. Speed 1997- Christian Galindo
1969- J. H. Matis 1998- Birgir Hrafnkelsson
1970- A. H. Feiveson 1999- Christopher Shane Reese
1971- M. D. McKay 2000- Chunfeng Huang
1973- R. L. Kodell 2001- Stanley Pounds
1974- L. D. Gianchetta 2002- Daniel P. Gaile
1975- R. K. Burdick 2003- Tanya Apanasovich
1976- David A. Lamb 2004- Christie Spinka
1977- Paul P. Biemer 2005- Yehua Li
1978- Randall L. Eubank 2006- Arnab Maity
1979- J. Richard Alldredge 2007- Brad Barney
1980- William J. Riley 2007- Kristin Lennox
1981- T. J. Woodfield 2009- Xiaolei Xun
1982- Philip C. Spector 2010- Tanya Garcia
1983- Anne T. Coleman 2011- Qifan Song
1984- Edgar W. Richardson 2012- Kun Su
1985- Katherine M. Ensor 2013- Ya Su
1985- Ronald H. Berdine 2014- Jingnan Xue
1986- Julia U. Oñate 2015- Kejun He
1987- Scott D. Grimshaw 2015- Shiyuan He
1988- William P. Alexander  2016- Yabo Niu
1989- Jangsun Baek 2017- Zijuan Chen
1990- James W. Hardin 2018- Yan Zhong
1991- Cheng Cheng 2019- Zhao Tang Luo
1992- Huay-Min Pu 2020- Myeongjong Kang
1993- Stephen Eckert 2021- Hyunwoong Chang
1994- Qinli Yu 2022- Arhit Chakrabarti
1995- Andy Liaw 2023- Jose Rodriguez Acosta