The American Statistical Association would like to thank its longtime members by continuing its tradition of honoring those members who joined the association 35 or more years ago.

Here, Stephen Miller talks about the challenges and rewards of being an AP Statistics teacher.

Anyone can be a mentor, however it takes hard work to train our future problemsolvers. A mentor is an excellent listener. He or she listens with the intent to understand and share experiences that the person being mentored can use. Here, Sastry Pantula, head of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation offers advice and shares ways to become a great mentor.

The Mayo Clinic Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics (BSI) recruits top statisticians at all levels. There is intense competition for talented people. What do they look for in a statistician? Here, you’ll find out what it takes to be the top candidate for a job.

Short for weblog, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes a blog as a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and hyperlinks provided by the writer. Recently, there has been an outcropping of blogs about statistics, so Amstat News asked a few statistical bloggers how they got started in both statistics and blogging. Read their answers here.

The statistics profession has had a profound impact on such diverse areas as health care, the environment, conducting the census, and education. Perhaps less visible has been the significant effect statistics has had on business and industry—the private sector. Here, Roger Hoerl from GE illustrates how business and industry affords statistics students another viable career option.

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.

ASA members are as diverse as the areas they study. In an effort to get to know our leading members better, we asked some of them to answer a few questions. Here, they tell us who inspired them and how they chose to be statisticians.