<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div id="DWT218" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; direction: ltr;" class="">Caros colegas da rede da ABE,<br class=""></div><div id="DWT219" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr;" class=""><br class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="DWT220" class=""><font face="Tahoma" size="2" class="">Gostaria de compartilhar com os colegas desta rede este email que recebi pela manhã e que deixou-me muito feliz. Eu venho trabalhando com o querido prof. Bala durante estes últimos anos e esta escolha como "</font><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class="">the Honorary Doctorate Degree </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class="">of the National University of Athens, Greece,</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> 2017 é mais do que merecido pela sua excelente contribuição para a Probabilidade e Estatística brasileira e </span><font face="Tahoma" size="2" class="">internacional. Abs. Josemar</font></div><div id="DWT221" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Dear Josemar and Francisco:<br class=""><br class="">I trust this will find you both very well. I just got back from India this morning after spending a week with my mother whose health is failing. Upon return, I got a very good news this morning. I got a call from the office of the Rector of the National University of Athens, Greece, that I have been selected to be awarded the Honorary Doctorate Degree in their University in early 2017 for my contributions to the field of Probability and Statistics. I thought I will share this news with both of you.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks and best wishes,<br class=""><br class="">Bala...<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><b class="">Professor N. Balakrishnan</b><br class=""><b class="">Distinguished University Professor</b><br class="">Department of Mathematics and Statistics<br class="">McMaster University<br class="">Hamilton<br class="">Ontario <br class="">Canada L8S 4K1<br class="">email: <i class=""><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT302_com_zimbra_email" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a href="mailto:bala@mcmaster.ca" class="">bala@mcmaster.ca</a></span></i><br class=""><br class="">"It is good to remember that time is precious, but it is more important to realize that you can make it memorable by being good to yourself and to all those around you."</div></div></div></body></html>