The Section on Quality and Productivity (Q&P) is happy to welcome Di Michelson as chair-elect and Ming Li as program chair-elect for 2013. If any section member would like to nominate a candidate for an elected office (chair or program chair) or appointed office for 2013, please email the nomination to Teresa Utlaut at theresa.l.utlaut@intel.com.

Three members of the section were elected as ASA Fellows this year: Jeffrey Hooper of BT Group US&C, Dongseok Choi of Oregon Health and Science University, and Joan Hu of Simon Fraser University.

The 2013 Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be held June 5–7 at GE Global Research in Schenectady, New York. A short course will be presented by Stephan Steiner from the University of Waterloo on June 4. For details, contact Martha Gardner at martha.gardner@research.ge.com.

Members can submit JSM 2013 invited session proposals to Willis Jensen at wjensen@wlgore.com.