June 30 is the application deadline for the William G. Hunter Award, sponsored by the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality. Presented annually, the award was designed to encourage the creative development and application of statistical techniques to problem solving in the quality field. Named in honor of the division’s founding chair, the award recognizes that person (or persons) whose actions most closely mirror who Bill Hunter was, which includes the following:
- A Communicator
- A Consultant
- An Educator (especially for practitioners)
- An Innovator
- An Integrator (of statistics with other disciplines)
- An Implementor (who obtained results)
