Here are the highlights of the March 2012 ASA Board meeting that took place at the ASA office in Alexandria, Virginia.

Nominations for the 2013 Deming Lecturer Award are due July 15. The awardee will give the Deming Lecture (an invited paper) at the Joint Statistical Meetings and receive a $1,000 honorarium, award plaque, and money for travel expenses.

Mathematica Laboratories for Mathematical Statistics: Emphasizing Simulation and Computer Intensive Methods, by Jenny A. Baglivo, provides a model for incorporating technology and modern statistical methods into mathematical statistics courses. Although the print book was originally published in 2005, the electronic material accompanying the text (previously provided on CD-ROM) were recently updated for use with current versions of Mathematica and are available online.

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.

The ASA and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics recently recognized the needed synergy between mathematics and statistics to address major challenges at the interface of computer modeling of complex processes and data by embarking on a joint effort to create the Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.

The National Science Foundation and U.S. Census Bureau have awarded interdisciplinary research grants aimed at finding new ways to interpret social, behavioral, and economic data and new ways to use and disseminate the resulting statistics.

As 2011 ASA president, Nancy Geller was invited to be a plenary speaker at the International Statistics Conference last December in Columbo, Sri Lanka. Here, she tells us about her experience.

A preliminary microdata file of January–September data from the 2011 National Health Interview Survey is available through the National Center for Health Statistics Research Data Center.

Five ASA members participated in the second annual Climate Science Day (CSD) on Capitol Hill February 1. Co-organized by the ASA and jointly sponsored by the ASA and other professional societies, the event’s primary purpose is for scientists to develop relationships with congressional staff so they will consult the scientists on climate-related questions.

The March 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Statistical Association is the first for new Theory and Methods section editors Xuming He of the University of Michigan and Jun Liu of Harvard University. Their first issue contains the usual broad assortment of theory and methods contributions, affecting both study design and data analysis. The Applications and Case Studies section includes applications in education, environmental science, medicine, and public health.