370:"for her fundamental research contributions in adaptive designs, sequential analysis, clinical trials, and particularly in bone marrow transplantation trials; for her devoted teaching; for her passionate mentoring to young statisticians, new investigators, women, and minorities, and researchers in small universities; for her leadership in the profession including her role as the chair of a major statistics department".
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292:, and Flournoy writes of sorting data sets manually at the laundromat while doing laundry. The center hired Leonard Hearne to create a shared clinical database before the term "database" existed, and Flournoy married him in 1978. Her work in this time on the graft-versus-tumor effect become "the first major application of the
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Curators' Distinguished Professor in 2012. In the same year she also won the Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences. In 2019 Flournoy received the Founders Award from the
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young faculty; for her scholarship in teaching and research, and for her many contributions to the statistical sciences". In 2007 they gave her their
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