The recipient of this award is recognized at the Convocation ceremony for the School of Information Technology and Engineering. This award is given annually by the Washington Statistical Society upon the nomination of the faculty of the Department of Applied and Engineering Statistics. It is awarded to a full-time student in either the Ph.D. or M.S. program majoring in statistical sciences. The student need not be graduating, but must have at least three semesters of work completed by the time the award is made. The award consists of a plaque, a certificate, and a one-year membership in the American Statistical Association and the Washington Statistical Society.
Consideration is given to all full-time graduate students enrolled in the spring semester.
The dissertation may be completed in any Ph.D. program in George Mason University and is awarded for the best dissertation written on the theory, methodology, or application of statistical science and data analysis. This would include not only statistics dissertations written in the Ph.D. in Information Technology or the Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics programs, but dissertations in allied fields such as mathematics, probability, statistical signal processing, stochastic control, survey methodology, public policy and the like. The award is made based on the recommendations of a committee that reviews all nominated dissertations. The award is made based on the recommendations of a committee that reviews all nominated theses.