Honors:

Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 
Member, International Statistical Association 
Member, American Meteorological Society 
Fellow, American Statistical Association
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

       Selected Awards:

Received the Honorary  D.Sc from the University of Chicago, June 2007
Named "Statistician of the Year" by the Chicago Chapter of ASA, 2004
IJ Schoenberg-Hilldale Chair in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Mathematics, University 
   of Maryland, 2001 
International Meetings on Statistical Climatology Achievement Award, 1998
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Elizabeth Scott Award, 1996 
First Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation, 1994 

   Selected Major Addresses (see TALKS link for other talks)

JSM 2007 President's Invited Address (ASA) , July 2007 
26th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland (CASI) Plenary Lecture, 2006
Wald Lecturer, Joint Statistical Meetings 2003
Foundations of Computational Mathematics Plenary Lecture 2002
C. G. Khatri Memorial Lectures, Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Keynote Speech, Interface 2000, New Orleans, 2000
Keynote Speech, IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing Meet, Madison 1999 
Full oral presentation, Neural Information Processing
      Society Meeting (24 selected out of 474 submissions), Denver, 1998 
Buehler-Martin Lectures, University of Minnesota, 1997 
Neyman Lecturer, IMS Annual Meeting, 1994 
SIAM Plenary Lecturer, SIAM Annual Meeting, 1994