Professor Stanley Lemeshow Receives L. Adrienne Cupples Award.
Stanley Lemeshow, professor of biostatistics at the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University, is this year’s recipient of the L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics. Lemeshow will accept the award and give a presentation at the School of Public Health on April 4.
The annual L. Adrienne Cupples Award recognizes a biostatistician whose academic achievements reflect the contributions to biostatistics exemplified by L. Adrienne Cupples, professor of biostatistics and epidemiology and the award’s first recipient.
Lemeshow is the founding dean of OSU’s College of Public Health, a position in which he served from 2003 to 2013. He has taught biostatics at the College of Public Health and the College of Arts and Sciences since 2009. Prior to joining OSU, he was a professor of biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and served as chair of the school’s Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology for several years.
“I am deeply honored to have been selected as the winner of the L. Adrienne Cupples Award,” Lemeshow says. “I have been very fortunate to have had a career that allowed me to focus on activities that I truly love. I can think of few things that I enjoy more than standing in front of a class and trying to make biostatistics not only understandable, but also enjoyable.”
Lemeshow is highly regarded for developing the Hosmer–Lemeshow test of goodness-of-fit for logistic regression, and for his books on biostatistics topics, including logistic regression and survival analysis. The award selection committee at SPH was particularly impressed with Lemeshow’s seminal work on applied logistic regression, which has influenced the work of countless biostatisticians. The committee also noted the breadth of Lemeshow’s teaching, reaching worldwide audiences via numerous short courses, online courses, and textbooks, as well as his willingness to assume leadership positions.
“For the second year in a row, we had a large number of impressive nominations, making the selection process extremely challenging,” says Josée Dupuis, professor and chair of biostatistics. “Dr. Lemeshow, with his exceptional methodological and collaborative research and his outstanding service to the field of public health, is highly deserving of this honor.”
Cupples joined SPH in 1981 and served as the founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics and co-executive director of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics. During her time at SPH, she has advanced the field of biostatistics through more than 600 publications in major journals and book chapters on collaborative and methodological research, development and effective teaching of a wide range of biostatistics courses, and mentorship of numerous graduate students and faculty.