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William S. Connor Award

Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University


This award is presented to the Texas A&M University Department of Statistics 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 Deparment 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 1968   F. M. Speed 1969   J. H. Matis
1970   A. H. Feiveson 1971   M. D. McKay 1973   R. L. Kodell
1974   L. D. Gianchetta 1975   R. K. Burdick 1976   David A. Lamb
1977   Paul P. Biemer 1978   Randall L. Eubank 1979   J. Richard Alldredge
1980   William J. Riley 1981   T. J. Woodfield 1982   Philip C. Spector
1983   Anne T. Coleman 1984   Edgar W. Richardson 1985   Ronald H. Berdine
1985   Katherine M. Ensor 1986   Julia U. OƱate 1987   Scott D. Grimshaw
1988   William P. Alexander 1989   Jangsun Baek 1990   James W. Hardin
1991   Cheng Cheng 1992   Huay-Min Pu 1993   Stephen Eckert
1994   Qinli Yu 1995   Andy Liaw 1996   Jeffrey D. Maca
1997   Christian Galindo 1998   Birgir Hrafnkelsson 1999   Christopher Shane Reese
2000   Chunfeng Huang 2001   Stanley Pounds 2002   Daniel P. Gaile
2003   Tanya Apanasovich 2004   Christie Spinka 2005   Yehua Li