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ISBA stewards conservatively-managed accounts containing funds for
several specific purposes. Funds are created (and may be merged or
discontinued) by acts of the Board of Directors. In addition, ad-hoc
funds are frequently created for short-term needs. Current funds include:
The Pilar Iglesius Fund
Pilar Iglesias-Zuazola was a research leader in Latin America in the areas of
Bayesian theory and analysis and an outstanding educator. She received her
Ph.D. from the Universidade de São Paulo in 1993, a student of Carlos
Pereira, and quickly assumed a leadership role in Chilean statistics. She
served as President of the Chilean Statistical Society, SOCHE, and headed its
Bayesian section; she served as Director of the only Ph.D.-granting Statistics
department in Chile, Catholic University; she worked to bring Statistical
Science to Chilean high school students through her leadership of the
Explora-Conicyt project (using animated cartoons to bring exploratory
analysis to life); and she interacted with the international Statistical
community at the highest levels, bringing fruitful interaction between Latin
American statistical scientists and those in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North
America.
Pilar contributed to the profession through service in ISBA and in the
Chilean Statistical Association and was a dedicated mentor of students and
young researchers. Pilar was a vital force in ISBA, head of the Chilean
chapter of ISBA, and organized the superb 2004 ISBA World Meeting at
Vinã del Mar, Chile. But above all she was loved for her warmth and
vitality. On the third of March in 2007, Pilar passed away.
A fund in memory of Pilar has now been established by ISBA to endow an award
in her name, to be given in perpetuity. The award provides travel grants for
one or two graduate students or young researchers from a developing nation so
that they can participate in an ISBA World Meeting or a Valencia meeting.
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Pilar's home institution,
provided the initial $5,000 to initiate the fund; the goal of raising $20,000
was more than half-way completed by December of 2007. Donations to maintain
and increase the fund may be given by secure on-line transaction when joining or
renewing ISBA membership, or at any time through a web page dedicated to
processing donations to the Pilar Iglesias fund.
The DeGroot Prize Fund
ISBA maintains an endowment fund to support offering the periodic
awarding of the DeGroot Prize
to the author or authors of an outstanding book on statistical science.
The fund was begun by contributions from Morrie's many friends at Carnegie
Mellon U, Duke U, George Washington U, Harvard U, Iowa State U,
Microsoft Research, National Technical U of Athens, Ohio State
U, the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the ASA, U Connecticut,
U of Durham, U Kent, U Minnesota, U Sheffield, U Texas at Austin, U Warwick,
and the Valencia Organizing Committee.
Donations to maintain and
increase the fund may be given by secure on-line transaction when joining or
renewing ISBA membership.
The Lindley Prize Fund
ISBA maintains an endowment fund to support offering the periodic
awarding of the Lindley Prize
for an outstanding contributed paper at an ISBA world meeting.
The fund was initiated by donations from Dennis's many friends at
Carnegie Mellon U, Duke U, George Washington U, Harvard U, Iowa State U,
Microsoft Research, National Technical U of Athens, Ohio State U, the
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the ASA, U College London,
U Connecticut, U Durham, U Kent, U Minnesota, U Sheffield, U Texas at Austin,
U Warwick and the Valencia Organizing Committee.
Donations to maintain and
increase the fund may be given by secure on-line transaction when joining or
renewing ISBA membership.
The Mitchell Prize Fund
ISBA maintains an endowment fund to support offering the periodic
awarding of the Mitchell Prize
for a Bayesian analysis of an important applied problem. The fund
was initiated by donations from Tobey's many friends and colleagues at the
Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Duke U, Peter Rossi, Jerome Sacks,
Microsoft Research, the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the
ASA, U California at Los Angeles and Donald Ylvisaker.
Donations to maintain and
increase the fund may be given by secure on-line transaction when joining or
renewing ISBA membership.
The Savage Prize Fund
ISBA maintains an endowment fund to support offering the periodic
awarding of the Savage Award
for outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian statistics.
The Savage Award was funded initially from royalties due to the authors and
editors of a series of books produced over a number of years under the
auspices of the Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics.
Donations to maintain and
increase the fund may be given by secure on-line transaction when joining or
renewing ISBA membership.
The Thomas Bayes Tomb Maintenance Fund
ISBA maintains a small fund, replenished by member donations, devoted towards
continuing the upkeep of the tomb of the Reverand
Thomas Bayes, namesake of ISBA, into the future. Initial contributions
to the fund were from BEST (Bayesian Efficient Strategic Trading) LLC of
Hoboken, NJ, after an introduction by ISBA. Donations to maintain and
increase the fund may be given by secure on-line transaction when joining or
renewing ISBA membership.
The Graduate Award Fund
ISBA maintains a fund devoted towards defraying some of the expenses for some
graduate students or young researchers so that they can participate in an
ISBA World Meeting or a Valencia meeting. Funds are not restricted to
individuals from developing countries. They are increased through the
securing of conference-specific grants from philanthropic or government
agencies (past contributors have included NSF, NIH, EuroStat, and others).
Individual contributions may be given by secure on-line transaction when joining or
renewing ISBA membership..
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