CMU Ph.D. student Maria Cuellar received the 2016 Wray Jackson Smith Award in April 2016.
Each year, the Government Statistics Section (GSS) and the Social Statistics Section (SSS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) make a scholarship award in memory of Wray Jackson Smith, a founding member of the Government Statistics Section and long-time contributor to Federal statistics. The Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship (WJSS), co-sponsored with the Washington Statistical Society, the Caucus for Women in Statistics, Harris-Smith Institutes, Mathematica Policy Research, and Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., is intended to reward promising young statisticians for their diligence, thereby encouraging them to consider a future in government statistics. The WJSS Award provides funding of $1,000 for use in exploring any of a broad number of opportunities for furthering the development of a career related to government statistics.
Previous recipients include Mauricio Sadinle (2014), who was also a CMU graduate student at the time, and is now a post-doc at Duke University.