  Seymour Geisser received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the City
College of New York in 1950, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematical
Statistics at the University of North Carolina in 1952 and 1955, respectively.
He then held positions at the National Bureau of Standards and the National
Institute of Mental Health until 1961. From 1961 until 1965, he was Chief of
the Biometry Section at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic
Diseases, and also held the position of Professorial Lecturer at the George
Washington University from 1960 to 1965. From 1965 to 1970, he was the founding
Chair of the Department of Statistics at the State University of New York,
Buffalo, and in 1971, he became the founding Director of the School of
Statistics at the University of Minnesota, remaining in that position until
2001. He held visiting professorships at Iowa State University, 1960;
University of Wisconsin, 1964; University of Tel-Aviv (Israel), 1971;
University of Waterloo (Canada), 1972; Stanford University, 1976, 1977, 1988;
Carnegie Mellon University, 1976; University of the Orange Free State (South
Africa), 1978, 1993; Harvard University, 1981; University of Chicago, 1985;
University of Warwick (England), 1986; University of Modena (Italy), 1996; and
National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), 1998. He was the Lady Davis Visiting
Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1991, 1994, 1999, and the Schor
Scholar, Merck Research Laboratories, 2002-2003. He was a Fellow of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.
