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A Special Volume 37, October 2011 of the prestigious journal Social Choice and Welfare has been published in honor of Professor Prasanta Pattanaik . This is a leading theory journal specializing in choice and social decisions both in a deterministic and a stochastic framework.The Guest Editors of this special volume are Taradas Bandyopadhyay, Rajat Deb and Maurice Salles.
Professor Helfand is the recipient of this year's senior CHASS Distinguished Teaching Award.This includes the Patricia McSweeny McCauley Chair in Teaching Excellence, which is given to Professor Helfand because of his demonstrated excellence in teaching in CHASS.
Professor Mindy Marks research on changes in college student time use has been featured in the NY Times, CNN and The Boston Globe. The research documents that: "The average student spent only about 12 to 13 hours per week studying — about half the time a full-time college student in 1960 spent studying"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15arum.html , http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/23/college-students-less-study-more-leisure/
http://articles.boston.com/2010-07-04/bostonglobe/29288580_1_college-students-students-and-professors-college-admissions-officials

Distinguished Professor Aman Ullah was honored for his contributions to the study of econometrics with an Inetrnational Econometrics Symposium in the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics , Chengdu, China, on May 24. The one-day conference was organized by Professors Qi Li and Li Gan of Texas A & M University and Essie Maasoumi of Emory University.

Professor Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera has been elected to the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters (http://www.forecasters.org ).

Ullah Elected AAAS Fellow
Professor Aman Ullah has been elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Professor Ullah is recognized "for outstanding contributions in mathematical sciences, for outstanding contribution to graduate study, and for contributions in the field of statistical inference." Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed by the AAAS because of efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. The fellows will receive official certification at the AAAS Annual Meeting on February 17, 2011 in Washington, D.C.