STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 16, 2006 — Judith Tanur, a Distinguished Teaching Professor at Stony Brook University, has been selected by the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools as the 2005-2006 winner of the Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award.
The award given for “her outstanding support of graduate students from course completion through research and placement” will be presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Friday April 7.
The Marshall Award is named in memory of Geoffrey Marshall, past president of NAGS who was instrumental in creating the mentoring award during his tenure in 1997-98.
Professor Tanur is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and American Association for the Advancement of Science, an elected member of International Statistical Institute, and recipient of ASA’s Founders’ Award. She resides in Montauk with her husband Dr. Michael Tanur and has two daughters and two grandchildren.
The Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) is one of four regional affiliates of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). Founded in 1975, NAGS draws institutional membership from the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, D.C., and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Quebec.
