Calyampudi R. Rao , Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics and Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis at The Pennsylvania State University, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Rao is internationally acknowledged as one of the world's top five statisticians for his multifaceted distinctions as a scientist, teacher, mathematician, and researcher. His pioneering contributions to mathematics, statistical theory, and applications have become part of graduate and postgraduate courses in statistics, econometrics, electrical engineering, and many other disciplines in most universities throughout the world. He is the holder of twenty distinguished honorary degrees from universities in fifteen countries. The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences is an advisory body to the Government of Lithuania in all fields of science.
Members represent all fields of learning and foreign membership is lifelong.
The visit was sponsored by the Intercollege Division of Statistics and co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, the Department of Family Practice in the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Management, and the Hydrology Program. She lectured on asymptotic theory and consulted with faculty and graduate students.