Our History

Honors and Awards

Honorary Life Membership

Honorary Life Members are Regular Members elected by Representative Council to the status of Honorary Life Members of the Society. Honorary Life Members have all the rights and privileges of a Regular Member but are exempt from the payment of annual dues. The announcement of the newly elected Honorary Life Member, if any, is made by the President at the International Biometric Conference.

Honorary Life Membership Nomination Instructions

Honorary Life Member Awardees

Year	Name	Region
1964	Chester Ittner Bliss (1899-1979)	Eastern North American Region
1964	Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978)	Eastern North American Region
1971	Gustavo Barbensi (1875-1974)	Italian Region
1971	George W. Snedecor (1881-1974)	Eastern North American Region
1971	Frank Yates (1902-1994)	British & Irish Region
1975	Arthur Linder (1904-1993)	Austro-Swiss Region
1976	William G. Cochran (1909-1980)	Eastern North American Region
1978	Erna Weber (1897-1988)	Region of the German Democratic Republic
1984	David J. Finney (1917-2018)	British & Irish Region
1985	C. R. Rao	Eastern North American Region
1998	Peter Armitage	British & Irish Region
1998	Pierre Dagnelie (dec. 2022)	Belgian Region
2001	David Cox	British & Irish Region
2003	Rob Kempton (1946-2003)	British & Irish Region
2004	L.C.A. Corsten	The Netherlands Region
2006	John Ashworth Nelder (1924-2010)	British & Irish Region
2006	Norman E. Breslow (1941-2015)	Western North American Region
2008	Niels Keiding	Nordic Baltic Region
2010	Robert N. Curnow	British & Irish Region
2012	Susan Wilson	Australasian Region
2014	Lutz Edler	German Region
2014	Roger Mead (1938-2015)	British & Irish Region
2014	Byron Morgan	British & Irish Region
2016	Kaye Basford	Australasian Region
2016	Peter Bauer	Austro-Swiss Region
2016	Thomas Louis	Eastern North American Region
2018	Marie Davidian	Eastern North American Region
2018	Hans C. van Houwelingen	The Netherlands Region
2018	Martin Schumacher	German Region
2018	Alan H. Welsh	Australasian Region
2020	Warren J. Muller	Australasian Region
2022	Lynne Billard	ENAR Region
2022	Jean-Louis Foulley	French Region
2022	Elizabeth Thompson	WNAR Region

IBS Awards

Two of the Society’s most revered Awards are given in even numbered years to coincide with the International Biometric Conference. These are the Rob Kempton Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Biometry in the Developing World and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of the IBS.

Jane Hutton (British & Irish Region) receiving The Rob Kempton Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Development of Biometry in the Developing World.

Past Members of Distinction

Roger Mead

Norman E. Breslow

Rob Kempton Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Development of Biometry in the Developing World

The International Biometrics Society (IBS) announces that nominations are now open for one of the Society’s most revered awards. This is the Rob Kempton Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Biometry in the Developing World. The award will be presented at the 2024 International Biometric Conference in Atlanta, Georgia USA.

The award consists of a Recognition Award, which will be presented in Atlanta, and complimentary IBS membership for the next calendar year (which may be donated to a member from a lower-and-middle-income country at the awardee's discretion, if they so choose). A full list of Kempton Award recipients may be found below.

We invite Regional Presidents and/or Network coordinators to submit nominations of Regular members until 17 June 2024.

Instructions:

Those submitting a nomination must be either a Region President or Network Coordinator.
Each nomination must be in support of a member who, in the eyes of the nominator, has made or is making significant contributions to the development of biometry in the developing world.
Current Representative Council Members and Executive Board Members are ineligible for nomination. A list of these members may be viewed here.
The nomination must be sponsored by at least two Regular members from other Regions.
A statement supporting the nomination should be submitted in editable text by the nominator.
Please send all nominations via e-mail to Representative Council Liaison Peter Doherty, with a copy sent to Special Projects Manager Heidi Lapka.
Nominations will only be accepted through 17 June 2024.

The IBS Representative Council will receive and consider all nominations in late June, 2024. Note that the nominee should not be made aware of the nomination that is being made on their behalf. The Representative Council will make the final decision regarding all Kempton Award Winners.

If you would like a sample nomination package, please contact Special Projects Manager Heidi Lapka.

We invite you to make nominations of those colleagues worthy of recognition. Thank you for your interest!

Past Recipients - Rob Kempton Award

2022 - Mary Lou Thompson (WNAR Region)
2020 – Henry G. Mwambi (South African Region)
2018 – Jim Todd (British & Irish Region/ Tanzanian Region)
2016 – Kaye Basford (AR)* - listed as winner on /6092-2/
2016 – Jane Hutton (British & Irish Region)
2014 – No award was given
2012 – Paul Janssen (Belgian Region)
2010 – Clarice G. B. Demétrio (Brazilian Region)
2008 – Larry Nelson (Central American-Caribbean Region)
2006 – Sagary Kaku Nokoe (Group Nigeria)

Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of the IBS

The International Biometric Society has presented an Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Development of the IBS since 2006. In addition to a recognition award, recipients of the award receive complimentary IBS membership for the next calendar year.

Aim: To honor the contributions of IBS members to the development to the society, and to promote the participation of members in the development of the society.

Prize: Recognition Award and complimentary IBS membership for the next calendar year.

Eligibility: Any IBS member who has made or is making a significant contribution to the development of the IBS is eligible to be nominated.

Application process: Individuals may be nominated by a Regional President or Network Coordinator, with support from IBS members from at least two (2) other Regions.

Timetable and Instructions: The nomination deadline is 17 June 2024. Nominations and letters of support for the award should be sent via e-mail to Representative Council Liaison Peter Doherty, with a copy sent to Special Projects Manager Heidi Lapka.

Reminders:

Regional Presidents or Network Coordinators may submit a nomination of any regular member.
Each nomination must be sponsored by two (2) regular members from at least two other Regions.
A statement of support of the nomination should be in editable text by the sponsor.
Current Representative Council members and Executive Board members are ineligible for nomination.
The Representative Council will make the final decision on all award winners. The announcement of the awards shall be made by the IBS President at the 2024 International Biometric Conference in Atlanta, Georgia USA.

If you would like a sample submission, please contact Special Projects Manager Heidi Lapka.

Past Recipients - Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of the IBS

2022 - Jürgen Kübler (German Region)
2020 – Motomi (Tomi) Mori (Western North American Region)
2016 – Jane Hutton (British & Irish Region)
2014 – Linda J. Young (Eastern North American Region)
2012 – Marie Davidian (Eastern North American Region)
2010 – Geert Molenberghs (Belgian Region)
2008 – Laurence Freedman (Eastern Mediterranean Region)
2006 – Andrew Mead (British & Irish Region)

Best Paper in Biometrics by an IBS Member

The award is given by the IBS biennially to one Biometrics paper from each of the previous two years identified by the co-editors as being of the highest quality and importance.

2022 – Hong, C., Salanti, G., Morton, S. C., Riley, R. D., Chu, H., Kimmel, S. E., & Chen, Yong | Title: Testing small study effects in multivariate meta‐analysis (76(4): 1240-1250, 2020)
2022 – Tran, Trung Dung, Lesaffre, E., Verbeke, G., & Duyck, J. | Title: Latent Ornstein‐Uhlenbeck models for Bayesian analysis of multivariate longitudinal categorical responses. (77(2): 689-701, 2021)

Best Paper in JABES by an IBS Member

The award is given by the IBS biennially to one JABES paper from each of the previous two years.

2022 – Théo Michelot, Richard Glennie, Catriona Harris, and Len Thomas | Title: Varying-Coefficient Stochastic Differential Equations with Applications in Ecology 26: 446-463 (2020)
2022 –Giri Gopalan and Christopher K. Wikle | Title: A Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition Tensor Emulator for Spatiotemporal Simulators 27: 22-45 (2021)