Lorrie Hoffman, Professor and Head of Mathematics, was awarded an NSF-AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Travel Grant to fund her trip to the Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC, in August where she is an invited chair for a session sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA) section for Statistical Education and will also talk about hers and Associate Professor in Mathematics Greg Knofczynski's research work in a contributed talk scheduled for the Nonparametric Models session sponsored by the ASA Biometrics Section.