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Dr. Cavell Brownie Mentoring Faculty Award



This award is named for Cavell Brownie, who was a faculty member at NC State from 1982-2007. Professor Brownie was outstanding in every way. She was a great teacher with high evaluations alongside demanding expectations. She was a leading researcher in wildlife sampling and capture-recapture methods, having co-authored two highly-cited monographs, published widely in statistics and non-statistics journals, won two Snedecor Awards, and she became an ASA Fellow in 2003.

This award honors Cavell Brownie for generous mentoring of faculty and students and seeks to encourage such mentoring by current faculty. She played an important role in mentoring female junior faculty, junior faculty involved in statistical consulting, and in mentoring graduate students. Her mentoring, collaboration, and statistical discussions are remembered with gratitude by current and former faculty and alumni.

Past Winners

  • 2022-2023 Dr. Srijan Sengupta
  • 2021-2022 Dr. Brian Reich
  • 2020-2021 Dr. Jonathan Duggins
  • 2019-2020 Dr. Arnab Maity
  • 2018-2019 Dr. Ana-Maria Staicu
  • 2017-2018 Dr. Butch Tsiatis
  • 2016-2017 Dr. Wenbin Lu
  • 2015-2016 Dr. Eric Laber
  • 2014-2015 Dr. Subhashis Ghoshal
  • 2013-2014 Dr. Sujit Ghosh
  • 2012-2013 Dr. Leonard Stefanski
  • 2011-2012 Dr. Marcia Gumpertz