Faculty
Accomplishments
 Hamparsum
Bozdogan received the Medal
of Honor Award Plaque from the Governor of Fethiye, Turkey for
outstanding contributions to the international conference "Inverse Problems:
Modeling and Simulation" June 7-12, 2004.
Statistics
faculty Halima Bensmail, Hamparsum Bozdogan,
Hyunjoong Kim, and Mary Leitnaker
were finalists for the 2003 College of Business Administration teaching
awards.
William
Seaver was a finalist for the College of Business
Administration's advising award for 2003.
Robert
Mee was a recipient of the College of Business Administration's
2003 Greg Dobbin's Outstanding Research and Teaching Award.
Ramon
Leon has been named associate editor of the ASQ magazine
Six Sigma Forum.
Robert
Mee was named fellow of the American Statistical Association on
August 13, 2002,
during the annual awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings in New
York City. The citation reads as follows: "
Robert W. Mee, Professor and Department Head of
Statistics, University of Tennessee: For research in random effects and
tolerance interval estimation, for exemplary leadership of a non-traditional
statistics department, and for teaching excellence."
For her
contributions in executive education, Mary
Leitnaker received the Richard Sanders Leadership Award
at the CBA
annual awards banquet in spring 2002.
Hamparsum
Bozdogan, Toby and Brenda McKenzie Professor in Business,
Information Complexity, and in Model Selection, of the Department of
Statistics, in the College of Business Administration (CBA) received the Bank
of America Faculty Leadership Award at the CBA Honors Banquet April
2001.
William
Seaver received an Excellence in Teaching citation at
the April 2001 Provost’s Honors Banquet.
The award is issued from the Provost’s Office, the Teaching
Council, and the Student Government Association to honor faculty for
superb classroom teaching. As
quoted from the banquet program, “Dr. Bill Seaver, associate professor
of statistics, excels as a teacher, advisor, and recruiter.
Under his leadership, the department has seen unprecedented
enrollment growth. Faculty
and students alike attribute this to his enthusiasm for bringing
statistics to life.”
At the Joint Statistics Meetings in August 2000,
Robert Mee received an Honorable Mention Presentation Award from the
Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences Section for his talk the
previous year titled "Efficient Resolution V Designs."
Also in summer 2000,
Robert Mee was invited to the National Institute of Standards and
Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland to work for one week on the NIST/SEMATECH
Engineering Statistics Handbook. To see a working draft of the
handbook, go to http://mirror.sematech.org/nist-handbook/.
Charlie Cwiek received
the Allen H. Keally Teaching Award at the CBA annual awards banquet
in spring 2000.
For her Stat 571 internet course, Mary Sue
Younger received the Innovations in Teaching Award at
the CBA annual awards banquet in spring 2000.
In November 1999, Robert Mee (dept. head)
was named "Honored Professor" of the Technical University of
Timisoara, Romania.
Esteban Walker was invited by the Department
of Statistics of the Universidad de Los Andes
in Merida, Venezuela to teach a short course in Nonparametric Regression the 24th and 25th
of June 1998. There were 30 attendees from different parts of the country.
The
Physicians' Executive MBA (PEMBA)
program began January 1998. David Sylwester
worked with eleven other College of Business Administration faculty to develop the
one-year program designed for physicians who wish to develop their skills in business
operations of medical organizations. It includes four, one-week residential periods
in Knoxville, plus two-way computer and audio links for weekly instruction.
Mary Sue Younger's book,
SAS Companion to P.V. Rao's Statistical
Research Methods in the Life Sciences, SAS Companion to P.V. Rao's Statistical
Research Methods in the Life Sciences, was
published by Duxbury Press, Belmont, CA, 1998.
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