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I. Olkin 191.4.4 Elizabeth L. Scott AwardIn recognition of Elizabeth L. Scott’s lifelong efforts to further the careers ofwomen, this award is presented to an individual who has helped foster opportunitiesin statistics for women by developing programs to encourage womento seek careers in statistics; by consistently and successfully mentoring womenstudents or new researchers; by working to identify gender-based inequities inemployment; or by serving in a variety of capacities as a role model. Firstawarded in 1992, it is given every other year in even-numbered years.Elizabeth Scott was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on November 23, 1917.Her family moved to Berkeley, where she remained for the rest of her life. Shewas in the UC Berkeley astronomy program and published more than ten paperson comet positions. She received her PhD in 1949. Her dissertation waspart astronomy and part statistics: “(a) Contribution to the problem of selectiveidentifiability of spectroscopic binaries; (b) Note on consistent estimatesof the linear structural relation between two variables.” She collaborated withJerzy Neyman on astronomical problems as well as weather modification.In 1970 Elizabeth Scott co-chaired a university sub-committee which publisheda comprehensive study on the status of women in academia. Subsequentlyshe led follow-up studies concerning gender-related issues such assalary discrepancies and tenure and promotion. She developed a toolkit forevaluating salaries that was distributed by the American Association of UniversityProfessors and used by many academic women to argue successfullyfor salary adjustments. She often told of her history in the Astronomy Departmentwhich provided a telescope to every male faculty, but not to her.She received many honors and awards, and served as president of the IMS,1977–78, and of the Bernoulli Society, 1983–85. She was Chair of the StatisticsDepartment from 1968 to 1973. She was a role model for many of the womenwho are our current leaders. She died on December 20, 1988.TABLE 1.6Recipients of the Elizabeth L. Scott Award.Year Winner Affiliation (at the Time of the Award)1992 Florence N. David University of California, Riverside1994 Donna Brogan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill1996 Grace Wahba University of Wisconsin, Madison1998 Ingram Olkin Stanford University2000 Nancy Flournoy University of Missouri, Columbia2002 Janet Norwood Bureau of Labor Statistics2004 Gladys Reynolds Centers for Disease Control and Prevention2006 Louise Ryan Harvard University2008 Lynne Billard University of Georgia2010 Mary E. Thompson University of Waterloo, Canada2012 Mary W. Gray American University