Awards

• Gottefried E. Noether Young Scholar Award, American Statistical Association, 2005:"The Noether Young Scholar Award will be given each year to an accomplished young researcher. This award will be made to foster, encourage and support both research and teaching in nonparametric statistics. The Noether Young Scholar will deliver an invited lecture the year after the award and will be asked to report of research performed since receiving the award."

• MD Anderson Cancer Center Faculty Scholar Award, 2004: Given to three faculty at MD Anderson Cancer Center annually "to  recognize an outstanding Assistant Professor (tenure track with a minimum  of  three years in rank)*, or an Associate Professor (tenure track or  with tenure, and no minimum time in rank requirements)*.  The candidate should  be early in his/her career path and exhibit outstanding ability and excellence in research, education, patient care, or prevention.

• Mitchell Prize, American Statistical Association Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Mitchell Prize Founders' Committee, 2003: Awarded for the paper "Wavelet-Based Nonparametric Modeling of Hierarchical Functions in Colon Carcinogenesis (with discussion)," by Jeffrey S. Morris, Marina Vannucci, Philip J. Brown, and Raymond J. Carroll.  The Prize is currently awarded every other year in recognition of an outstanding paper that describes how a Bayesian analysis has solved an important applied problem. The Prize is jointly sponsored by the ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS), the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), and the Mitchell Prize Founders' Committee.  This paper was also chosen as the 2003 JASA-ACS Invited Paper.                    

• Best Presentation, CAMDA 2003: "Identification of prognostic genes, combining information across different studies and oligonucleotide arrays," a paper by Assistant Professors Jeffrey S. Morris, Guosheng Yin, Keith A. Baggerly, and Li Zhang, and Graduate Research Assistant Chunlei Wu, was chosen as the winning entry in the 2003 Critical Analysis of Microarray Data (CAMDA) Competition.  The competiting entries are judged through an international conference on data analysis for microarray technology that is held annually at Duke University. This award represents the third winning submission in as many years for researchers in bioinformatics and biostatistics at M. D. Anderson.