Spaig Award
NSF-Census Research Network honored with Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award from American Statistical Association
BALTIMORE, MD – The National Science Founda- tion-Census Research Network (NCRN), a node of which has been hosted at Cornell University for the past six years, has been awarded the American Statistical Association’s Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award. The award recognizes excellence in collaboration between academe, industry, and government that results in significant contributions to statistics with applications to real-world problems. The award was announced at the ASA’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, MD, on July 30, 2017. The NCRN is composed of nodes at eight universities (Carnegie Mellon University, University of Colorado joint with the University of Tennessee, Cornell University, Duke University joint with the National Institute of Statistical Science, University of Michigan, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and Northwestern University) and the United States Census Bureau, and was established in 2011 to provide support for a set of research nodes, staffed by teams of researchers conducting interdisciplinary research and educational activities on methodological questions of interest and significance to the broader research community and to the federal statistical system, particularly the U.S. Census Bureau. The Coordinating Office for the NCRN, created in 2012 and managed by Cornell University and Duke/NISS, organized conferences and workshops, compiled the NCRN newsletter, and served as the primary marketing mechanism for NCRN public forums and work products. The NCRN tackled “challenging issues that could not have been addressed so productively by either academic or government researchers acting on their own,” said Prof. Sarah Nusser, Vice-President for Research at Iowa State University, and Dr. Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician of the United States, noted that based on her own observation, “the collaboration has been highly successful.”
For more information, see the NCRN Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 4.