RISK newsletter:
Students Receive Best Paper Awards

Source: The Society for Risk Analysis' RISK newsletter, Second Quarter 1995

Six student papers submitted for the 1994 SRA Annual Meeting were judged to be of high quality based on scientific rigor, creativity, and the advancement of risk assessment. Each student received a $500 travel award and the opportunity to make a platform presentation. The awardees, their paper titles, and supporting authors, if any, are listed below:

Christopher S. Crockett, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "Prevalence of Shigellosis in the U.S.: Consistency with Dose-Response Information," with C.N. Haas.

Charles D. Linville, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Information Value Theory: Informing Global Change Research Priorities."

David L. MacIntosh, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, "Uses of Probabilistic Exposure and Dose Models in Environmental Health Management and Risk Assessments," with J. Xue and H. Ozkaynak.

Laura Painton, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Optimization Under Uncertainty: A Case Study in System Reliability," with P. Fischbeck.

Sharon Sigethy, Duke University, Durham, and U.S. EPA Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, "Comparing Three Approaches for Deriving Potency Estimates for Acute Noncancer Health Effects: Phosgene_A Case Study," with I.L. Cote, D. Costa, M.J. Selgrade, and J.J. Vandenberg.

William J. Wheeler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, "Perceptions of Global Warming: Causes and Effects."

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