Elias Shiu, professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and director of undergraduate studies was honored as a CLAS Collegiate Fellow. His research interest includes actuarial science and mathematical finance. He is also an honorary editor of the journal Insurance: Mathematics and Economics and was a co-editor of the North American Actuarial Journal. In 2017 the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, awarded him an honorary doctorate in actuarial science.