We are proud to announce that Statistics Ph.D. students Erin Lipman and Jess Kunke have received Best Student Paper Awards from the American Statistical Association

Erin Lipman is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science for her work “Explaining Differences in Voting Patterns Across Voting Domains Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models”

Jess Kunke is the recipient of the Best Paper Award issued jointly by the Government Statistics, Social Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Sections for her work “Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) Estimators”

Both Erin and Jess will be presenting their work at special sessions in August at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland.  Congratulations to them!