Donate to the Statistics Fund for Excellence

As part of the campus phase of the World of Opportunity Campaign, the Department of Statistics established an endowment fund called the Statistics Fund for Excellence. The purpose of this fund is to facilitate our continued efforts to enhance our academic programs, particularly our efforts to attract increased numbers of excellent students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Income from the fund is used to provide: prizes to recognize and encourage outstanding undergraduate and graduate students; assistance with travel expenses for incoming graduate students from foreign countries for whom the cost of air travel is a fundamental obstacle to entry into graduate studies at UBC, and for current graduate students to travel to research conferences; supplementary support, in the form of Statistics Graduate Fellowships, for outstanding incoming or current graduate students; and, journal subscriptions to upgrade and sustain the departmental Reading Room, thereby enhancing student access to the current research literature. These expenditures are intended to increase the visibility of the discipline, to recognize outstanding students and encourage them to identify with the discipline, to allow us to be more competitive in recruiting graduate students, and to enhance graduate studies in the discipline at UBC.

Two awards are given regularly, the Nash Medal, given to the most outstanding graduating student in the B.Sc. program in Statistics, and the Marshall Prize, awarded to an oustanding Statistics graduate student.

In addition, each year the Statistics and the Mathematics Departments honour an undergraduate or graduate student who has excelled in the fields of probability and statistics. This honour is conveyed via the Lorraine Schwartz Prize.

Individuals wishing to donate to this fund may mail cheques payable to UBC / Statistics Fund for Excellence to the Department of Statistics. For more information on the Statistics Fund for Excellence, please contact

Head
Department of Statistics
333-6356 Agricultural Road
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, B.C.,
V6T 1Z2
Tel: 604.822.0570
Fax: 604.822.6960
E-mail: head at stat dot ubc dot ca

Receipts for income tax purposes will automatically be issued to all donors. All income derived from the fund will be used for the purposes described above.