Juan Carlos Salazar Uribe

As the 2014 ASA Educational Ambassador, Juan Carlos Salazar Uribe of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, attended the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston, Massachusetts, to participate in Continuing Education (CE) courses.

The Educational Ambassador Program is an ASA outreach effort launched by the Committee on International Relations in Statistics to foster international collaboration and enhance statistics education worldwide. The program subsidizes an ambassador from a developing country to attend JSM and take CE courses. It also provides a one-year ASA membership.

Candidates are required to have a PhD in statistics, an interest in teaching, and be open to study in new areas of research. After attending CE courses in an emerging area of research, the educational ambassador returns to his or her country and teaches the subject matter learned in the CE course(s) within the next year to at least 10 students. While at JSM, Juan took several CE courses and was particularly interested in the course “Applied Longitudinal Analysis.”

Since the program launch in 2005, the Committee on International Relations in Statistics has chosen educational ambassadors from Argentina, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Morocco, Armenia, Costa Rica, Botswana, and Colombia.

For more information about the program, contact ASA Director of Education Rebecca Nichols at rebecca@amstat.org.

Editor’s Note: We appreciate the generous $1000 contribution by Monsanto that will make it possible to provide additional distance learning for the 2014 Educational Ambassador and his students through webinars and other means.