FACULTY AWARD: Storey receives Mortimer Spiegelman Award for health statisticians under 40

By Staff on May 28, 2015, 4:15 p.m.

John Storey, the William R. Harman '63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics and professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has been awarded the 2015 Mortimer Spiegelman Award by the American Public Health Association (APHA). The award was created in 1970 to honor a statistician 40 years or younger who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics. The award's intent is to encourage talented young statisticians to become involved in public health. Storey, who also is director of Princeton's Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, will receive the award at the 2015 APHA annual meeting in November.

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