The William S. Connor Award is presented to the graduate student whom the faculty deems the most outstanding among those students passing the preliminary examinations during the current year. Thus, a winner is not selected until the beginning of the year following the year designated on the award. The award reads: Presented by the faculty of the Department of Statistics to outstanding Ph.D. candidates in memory of a former colleague Dr. William S. Connor scholar, teacher, and gentleman.
1967 B. R. Waldron |
1985 Ronald H. Berdine |
2003 Tanya Apanasovich |
2020 Myeongjong Kang |
1968 F. M. Speed |
1986 Julia U. Oñate |
2004 Christie Spinka |
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1969 J. H. Matis |
1987 Scott D. Grimshaw |
2005 Yehua Li |
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1970 A. H. Feiveson |
1988 William P. Alexander |
2006 Arnab Maity |
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1971 M. D. McKay |
1989 Jangsun Baek |
2007 Brad Barney |
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1973 R. L. Kodell |
1990 James W. Hardin |
2007 Kristin Lennox |
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1974 L. D. Gianchetta |
1991 Cheng Cheng |
2009 Xiaolei Xun |
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1975 R. K. Burdick |
1992 Huay-Min Pu |
2010 Tanya Garcia |
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1976 David A. Lamb |
1993 Stephen Eckert |
2011 Qifan Song |
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1977 Paul P. Biemer |
1994 Qinli Yu |
2012 Kun Su |
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1978 Randall L. Eubank |
1995 Andy Liaw |
2013 Ya Su |
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1979 J. Richard Alldredge |
1996 Jeffrey D. Maca |
2014 Jingnan Xue |
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1980 William J. Riley |
1997 Christian Galindo |
2015 Kejun He |
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1981 T. J. Woodfield |
1998 Birgir Hrafnkelsson |
2015 Shiyuan He |
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1982 Philip C. Spector |
1999 Christopher Shane Reese |
2016 Yabo Niu | |
1983 Anne T. Coleman |
2000 Chunfeng Huang |
2017 Zijuan Chen | |
1984 Edgar W. Richardson |
2001 Stanley Pounds |
2018 Yan Zhong | |
1985 Katherine M. Ensor |
2002 Daniel P. Gaile | 2019 Zhao Tang Luo |