Warwick People

First published in CommUnicate issue 316.

Professors Sebastian van Strien and Mark Pollicott have been awarded Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships for 2007/08.

First published in CommUnicate issue 316

Professor Carol Rutter, Director of the CAPITAL Centre, was recently re-elected as the University’s representative trustee on the governing body of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

First published in CommUnicate issue 316

German Department Associate Professors Jim Jordan and Steve Lamb recently met Günter Grass, author of The Tin Drum and Nobel Laureate for Literature. As board members of the Ernst Toller Society they were in Neuburg, Bavaria, representing the University at a ceremony to award Grass the Ernst Toller Prize for his contribution to literature and politics.

Professor David Firth and Dr Heather Turner, of the Department of Statistics,  are to be made the winners of the 2007 John M Chambers Statistical Software Award by the American Statistical Association for their software gnm - an R Package for Generalized Nonlinear Models.

The Chambers Award aims to encourage innovative and well-designed statistical software, and is awarded annually to one project worldwide.

The German department celebrates a double victory this week, following the announcement that two of the department’s final-year undergraduates, Adam Walther and Oliver Hopwood, have carried off first and third prize respectively in a national essay competition.