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The ASA’s first follow-up survey of master’s graduates is complete. The results provide insights into starting salaries, hiring sectors and companies, most frequently used technical and nontechnical skills, and undergraduate training—all valuable information for current and prospective students, statistics and biostatistics departments, and new graduates.
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Experienced statisticians offer advice for advancing your career in academia.
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The Career Development Committee provides resources relevant to you at each stage of your career, including several important sessions this year at JSM 2016 in Chicago.
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Robert Starbuck became aware of the statistics field when he was an undergraduate student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Here, he tells the story of his journey from an undergraduate student to a statistician working in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Howard County held its first Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Festival June 9 at Howard County Community College.
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While a math student at Vassar, Deborah Nolan was first exposed to statistics during a summer internship during which she helped analyze data from a survey in a women’s magazine about how family life had changed as more women became breadwinners. That experience convinced her to stay away from statistics and stick with the comfortable world of theoretical math. After graduating, she worked for IBM and learned how to code in several languages. It was her work as an applications programmer that brought Nolan back to the world of statistics, and she went on to earn a PhD in the field. Since then, Nolan has earned multiple awards for her dedication to teaching, including the ASA Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award and Berkley’s Distinguished Teaching Award. She co-developed the first data science course at Berkeley and played a pivotal role in designing the data science major, leading to the establishment of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. Currently serving as the inaugural associate dean, Nolan is instrumental in meeting the growing demand for data science education, with nearly 1,000 students graduating annually with a data science major from Berkeley.