Today@Dal

Kudos to Chris Field, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, who has awarded Honorary Membership in the Statistical Society of Canada. Professor Field received his award at University of Alberta, Edmonton, where more than 500 statisticians are gathered for the Society’s 41st Annual Meeting. This award is intended to honour an individual who has made exceptional contributions to the development of the statistical sciences in Canada and whose work has had a major impact in this country.

Professor Field is one of Canada’s most broadly influential statisticians and educators and a gifted and dedicated teacher. He is also a devoted public servant, who, with great competence, has served Canadian statistics through leadership roles, as Chair of the NSERC Statistical Sciences Grant Selection Committee, as Director of Statistics at Dalhousie and founding Director of the Statistical Consulting Service, and in many other administrative roles at Dalhousie where the department has been shaped by his influence. He was President of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, and President of the SSC, and has acted as the Program Chair for two of the Society’s Annual Meetings and as Local Arrangements Chair in two others.

Kudos to Claude Caldwell of the Faculty of Agriculture, who was recently selected to receive an Honorary Life membership Award from the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association. This award is presented to person who, by distinguished services to the association, has contributed to the betterment of Canadian agriculture. Dr. Caldwell was also selected to receive the Clark-Newman-Clayton Award. This award is presented only to individuals who have made exceptional contribution to Canada’s pedigreed seed production and to Canadian agriculture through research, plant breeding and administration.

The recipient is able to name a post graduate student to receive a $2500 bursary. Dr. Caldwell has selected Libiao Gao, a student studying comparative aspects of camelina and canola seed at the Faculty of Agriculture to receive the bursary for this award.

The awards will be presented at the Canadian Seed Growers Association annual general meeting in Halifax, July 12, 2013.