The Statistical Education Section navigated a successful JSM 2017 under Section Program Chair Dalene Stangl and Roundtable Chair Kelly McConville, sponsoring or co-sponsoring five invited panels/sessions, nine topic-contributed panels/sessions, six contributed paper sessions, one traditional poster session, one speed poster session, and five roundtables. Also, Carol Blumberg and Rebecca Nichols organized the Statistical Education booth, coordinating with Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences Section to create a one-stop shop for all things educational.

Slides from many JSM 2016 talks are available on the section’s website, and others are being collected from JSM 2017. You can submit these to Brigitte Baldi.

The following six section members were named as new ASA fellows:

• Sam Behseta, California State University, Fullerton
• Joe Fred Gonzalez, US Department of Health and Human Services
• Charles Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/li>
• Tim Hesterberg, Google
• Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College
• Michael Posner, Villanova University

Contact Nicholas Horton—Fellows Committee chair—with nominations, questions, or suggestions for next year.

The section also announced the following education award honorees:

• Robin Lock, St. Lawrence University, 2016 Ron Wasserstein Award for Best Contributed Paper, for “Data Surfing on the World Wide Web – Part 2”
• Kelly McConville, Swarthmore College, 2016 Statistical Education Section Speed Session Award for “Are Volcanic Eruptions Increasing? An Example of Teaching Data Wrangling and Visualization in Stat 2”
• Jane Watson, University of Tasmania, and Lyn English, Queensland University of Technology, 2016 Jackie Dietz Award for Best JSE Paper for “Repeated Random Sampling in Year 5”
• James Cochran, University of Alabama, 2017 Distinguished Teaching Career Award
• Anna Bargagliotti, Loyola Marymount, 2017 Waller Education Award
• Ann Cannon, Cornell College, 2017 Mu Sigma Rho William D. Warde Statistics Education Award
• Nicholas Horton, Amherst College, 2017 Founders Award
• Jane Pendergast, Duke University, 2017 Founders Award

The following items of interest to section members were discussed at the open meeting: 

The section’s new blog provides a modern way to keep up with the latest section news. It is mobile device–friendly, and you can subscribe to receive email notifications. Please send any ideas for posts to Kay Endriss, communications officer.

Registration for the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (eUSR) is open. This free conference will take place November 3 from 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST and is open to all undergraduate students and faculty. This is a great opportunity for students at all stages of their undergraduate career to learn more about undergraduate statistics research. If you have any questions about eUSR, send an email to Kelly McConville.

Resources for eCOTS 2018 (the electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics), taking place May 21–25, will soon appear online. Rebecca Nugent is the program chair.

The 10th International Conference on Teaching Statistics will take place July 8–13 in Kyoto, Japan. The theme is “Looking back, looking forward.” Submission deadlines vary; see the website for details.

Kelly McConville will chair the section’s 2018 JSM program; Stacey Hancock will chair the 2019 JSM program.

Election Results

In the spring 2017 section elections, the following members were elected and officially began their terms January 1:

• Beth Chance of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Chair
• Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel of Duke University, Chair-elect
• Matthew Hayat of Georgia State University, Council of Sections Representative
• Sharon Lane-Getaz of St. Olaf College, Executive Committee at Large
• Cassandra Pattanayak of Wellesley College, Executive Committee at Large
• Stacey Hancock of Montana State University, JSM Program Chair-elect

A detailed handout and minutes from the business meeting will be posted to the section’s website.