Mu Sigma Rho

Mu Sigma Rho (ΜΣΡ) is an American national honor society for statistics It was established at Iowa State University in 1968.

History
Mu Sigma Rho was founded by Ted Bancroft, David Huntsberger, and Oscar Kempthorne at the Statistical Laboratory and Department of Statistics at Iowa State University in 1968. It was formed as the National Statistics Honor Society. Mu Sigma Rho seeks to promote and encourage scholarly activity in statistics, and to recognize outstanding achievement of students, faculty, and professional statisticians in academic and non-academic institutions.

The society was incorporated in the state of Iowa. Its first chapter, Alpha, was established at towa State University. Donald K. Hotchkiss was the first president of the national society, while Eric West was the first president of the Alpha chapter.

In February 2005, the society began allowing American Statistical Association chapters to join Mu Sigma Rho as affiliate chapters. The allows students to join the society who attend universities and colleges that do not have a Mu Sigma Rho chapters.

Activities
Mu Sigma Rho provides outreach and professional service. Some chapters host speakers and provide tutoring services to other students. The society publishes an occasional newsletter, The Mu Sigma Rhover.

Mu Sigma Rho presents annual awards, including the William D. Warde Statistics Education Award and the Mu Sigma Rho Early Career Undergraduate Impact Award. The Early Career Undergraduate Impact Award is presented to a statistics faculty member for contributions to the success of undergraduate students. The Warde Statistics Education Award known as the Statistics Education Award before 2000, is presented to a statistics instructor for excellence in the classroom and a lifetime of commitment to statistics education. Faculty at any academic institution in the United States are eligible; recipients do not have to work for Mu Sigma Rho member institutions.

Membership
Mu Sigma Rho's membership consists of undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and honorary members.

To be eligible for membership, undergraduates must have completed two years of college and eight semester hours of statistics courses, including five hours at a junior level, with a 3.40 GPA in those courses and a 3.20 GPA overall. Graduate students seeking membership must have completed twelve semester hours with a 3.50 GPA.

Chapters
Following is a list of Mu Sigma Rho chapters. Active chapters are in bold. Inactive chapters are in italics.

Notable members

 * Marcia Gumpertz, professor of statistics at North Carolina State University