Professor Edoardo Airoldi gave his 2017 Medallion Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Baltimore on “Design and Analysis of Randomized Experiments on Networks.” Each year the Institute of Mathematical Statistics selects eight Medallion lecturers from the fields of statistics and probability.

Congratulations to Professor Xihong Lin, who has been awarded the 2017 Florence N. David Award by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Society of Canada and the Eastern and Western North American Regions of the International Biometric Society). The award is “granted to a female statistician who serves as a role model to other women by her contributions to the profession through excellence in research, leadership of multidisciplinary collaborative groups, statistics education, or service...