Distinguished Professor Jane-Ling Wang

Jane-Ling Wang wins 2016 Noether Award

1/11/16: We are very pleased to announce that Distinguished Professor Jane-Ling Wang has won the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award for 2016.

This award is presented alongside the Noether Junior Scholar Award by the American Statistical Association, and carries an endowment fund to recognize distinguished researchers and teachers and to support research in the field of nonparametric statistics. The Noether Awards were established in 1999 as a tribute to Gottfried Emanuel Noether, a leading scholar in nonparametric statistics with interests in research and teaching, who died in 1991.

The Noether Senior Scholar Award is presented annually to a distinguished senior researcher/teacher in nonparametric statistics. The recipient is also invited to deliver a special lecture.

You can find out more about the Gottfried E. Noether Award, as well as the list of previous winners, on the ASA website: http://www.amstat.org/awards/gottfriednoetherawards.cfm

Congratulations to Jane-Ling on winning this prestigious honor!

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