ASA member Mikaela Meyer was awarded a Truman Scholarship to support her graduate studies in public policy and completed an internship at the US Government Accountability Office.

The International Data Science in Schools Project had released the details of a global project to beef up the teaching of data studies in high schools throughout the world and train teachers in data science.

An update from the management team of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation touches on recent program activities from DMS and an outlook for the future.

StatFest 2017—a free one-day event aimed at encouraging undergraduate students from under-represented groups to consider graduate studies and careers in the statistical sciences—will be held September 23 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The University of Alabama will host an NIH-funded short course, titled “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research,” at the University of Alabama at Birmingham July 24–28.

The Joint Program in Survey Methodology—with faculty from the University of Maryland, University of Michigan, and Westat—is introducing new programs to respond to the ever-increasing use of Big Data and the corresponding need for methods of analysis and inference.

The 2017 ASA election opens March 15 at 12:01 a.m. ET and closes May 1 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Make sure you’re ready.

ASA is sponsoring the 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2017), which provides a forum for researchers, industry practitioners, and Big Data users to exchange ideas and discuss best practices of applications and the latest theoretical developments in data science and analytics.

Approximately 150 participants from various countries attended the International Conference on Analysis of Repeated Measures Data at Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of the University of Dhaka.

The biostatistics community rallied to make the case for the importance of biostatistics to public health research and practice when the 2016 draft CEPH Masters of Public Health Accreditation Criteria no longer included specific mention of biostatistical skills among the required competencies.