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IN HIS TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AT BALL STATE
UNIVERSITY,DR. ALI HAS PROVEN THAT EXCELLENT
RESEARCHERS CAN BE OUTSTANDING TEACHERS. THE DIRECTOR OF
BALL STATE'S GRADUATE PROGRAM IN STATISTICS,
HE OFFERS FIRST-RATE
INSTRUCTION WHETHER THE
COURSE IS COLLEGE ALGEBRA
OR A GRADUATE
SEMINAR IN PROBABILITY THEORY.
HIS DEDICATION IS FOUND IN THE
MANY CLASSES HE HAS ARRANGED
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND
IN THE ATTENTION
HE GIVES TO
THE UNDERGRADUATE STATISTICS
SEQUENCE FOR MATHEMATICS AND
ACTUARIAL SCIENCE MAJORS, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL STUDIES
COURSE MATHEMATICS 125.
A SPECIALIST IN ORDER STATISTICS, DR. ALI REGULARLY WORKS
ON ONE OR MORE RESEARCH GRANTS. IN 1985, BALL STATE
RECOGNIZED HIM AS ITS OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER, AND THAT
RECOGNITION SEEMED ONLY TO INCREASE HIS SCHOLARLY
PRODUCTIVITY. ANOTHER CAREER HIGHLIGHT CAME IN 1991 WHEN
THE BANGLADESH STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION PRESENTED HIM WITH
ITS FIRST HUSAIN GOLD MEDAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING
CONTRIBUTIONS TO STATISTICAL SCIENCE.
ALTHOUGH IT MIGHT SEEM THAT PROFESSOR ALI WOULD HAVE LITTLE
TIME LEFT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, HIS VITA RECORDS A
SIGNIFICANT LEADERSHIP IN HIS OWN DEPARTMENT, IN THE
UNIVERSITY-AT-LARGE, AND IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, IN 1976 HE
ORGANIZED AT BALL STATE A STATISTICS DAY CONFERENCE, A
CONFERENCE SO SUCCESSFUL THAT IT EVOLVED INTO THE MIDWEST
BIOPHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS WORKSHOP. CO-SPONSORED BY THE
AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, IT ATTRACTS ALMOST 200
PARTICIPANTS EACH YEAR.
PLEASE JOIN ME NOW IN CONGRATULATING BALL STATE'S 1992-93
OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARD RECIPIENT, DR. MIR ALI, PROFESSOR
OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES.