General Information

1. Birth

March 7, 1947 in The Dalles, Oregon (U.S. citizen)

2. Education:

B.A. University of Oregon 1965-69 Mathematics

-- Yale University 1969-70 Mathematics

Ph.D University of Washington 1974-78 Biomathematics

3. Military Svc:

1970-1974, U. S. Coast Guard

4. Positions:

1979-1985 Assistant Professor of Statistics, Penn State U.

1985-1987 Associate Professor of Statistics, PSU

1987-1991 Professor of Statistics, PSU

since 1992 Distinguished Professor of Statistics, PSU

5. Visiting Positions:

Fall 1987 Visiting Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University

Spring 1988 Visiting Scholar, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cornell University

Fall 1990 Visiting Professor, Yale University

Spring 1991 Visiting Humboldt Scholar, Free University of Berlin

1996-7 Visiting Lansdowne Scholar, University of Victoria

6. Interdisciplinary Affiliations:

Since 1979 Member of the statistical ecology group of the graduate, program in ecology

Since 1990 Faculty Associate of the Population Research Institute

7. Awards, Honors, and Offices

• 1969....Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• 1969....Phi Beta Kappa's Senior 12, U. of Oregon
• 1969....Three year NSF Graduate Fellowship
• 1976....Two year NIH Fellowship
• 1979....NSF NATO Postdoctoral Fellow (Imperial College)
• 1987....Selected as Fellow, Inst. of Math. Stat.
• 1990....Elected member of Intern. Statist. Institute
• 1990....IMS Special Invited Paper (only U.S. Speaker in 1990)
• 1990....Humboldt Senior Scientist Research Award
• 1991....Elected IMS Council
• 1992....Named Distinguished Professor of Statistics
• 1993....Principal Speaker (10 lectures), NSF-CBMS Regional Conference (sole statistics speaker in 1993)
• 1994....Elected IMS Council
• 1996....Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1997....Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria
• 1997....Cowinner of Snedecor Award of COPSS; for best paper in biometrics in 95-96
• 1997....Program Secretary for the IMS (till 2000)
• 1998....Program chair, IMS annual meeting
• 1998....Certificate of Recognition, Sigma Xi of Penn State, for outstanding support of students doing research
• 1998....Named Fellow of the American Statistical Association