Ehsan Karim, Statistics PhD student, has been awarded a Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada 
Studentship for his research project "Causal Inference with Observational Multiple Sclerosis Data".   
See http://mssociety.ca/en/research/pdf/research-studentships.pdf.
Although officially awarded for only 1 year, these studentships are open to up to 3 renewals.   
Ehsan will carry out this research in collaboration with Drs  Paul Gustafson,  John Petkau and 
Helen Tremlett (the latter of the Division of Neurology, Dept of Medicine).

I'm happy to announce that Ehsan Karim has been awarded the Statistics Department's  2011-12 
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

Ehsan has contributed in many ways to our teaching.   He has served as a teaching assistant for 
Stat 200, Stat 203, Stat 241/251 and Stat 302, a head TA for Stat 241/251, and a lecturer for a 
term in one section of Stat 200. He has been involved with TA training and has been a superb mentor 
and role model to many in the department.

Congratulations, Ehsan!  and thank you for all that you have done and continue to do.

The Departmental Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the co-winners
of the 2011 Marshall Prize are Luke Bornn and Corinne Riddell.
Luke is completing a PhD thesis with Jim Zidek (and Arnaud Doucet) and
Corinne's MSc thesis was supervised by John Petkau (and co-supervised by 
Dr. Yinshan Zhao of the UBC MS/MRI Research Group). 
In addition to excellence in course work, they were active in other
academic activities in the Department.  They have both previously received
other awards at UBC and also have publications from their thesis research.

Congratulations to Luke and Corinne!

The prize honours Professor Emeritus Albert Marshall for his scholarly
contributions and his role in establishing the Department of Statistics
at UBC.  It is awarded to statistics graduate students who have achieved
great distinction.
See http://www.stat.ubc.ca/Department/Marshall.php

Harry Joe (on behalf of the Awards Committee)