The November Amstat News member spotlight is on Jean Dickinson Gibbons, retired chair of the applied statistics program and Russell Professor at the University of Alabama.

The ASA and Wiley InterScience are excited to announce that ASA members now have a new benefit of membership—free online access to Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (SAM).

A group of 44 scholars traveled from 11 countries to meet in Potomac, Maryland, to share knowledge about the status of women worldwide in chemistry, computer science, and mathematics. The meeting was convened by the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology.

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Executive Council recently found that the refusal by Atlanta-based Strategic Vision LLC to provide sufficient information about the methodology used in its surveys was “inconsistent with AAPOR’s Code of Professional Ethics and Practices and contrary to basic principles of scientific research.”

View this slideshow of photos from the 2009 JSM in Washington, DC.

With an ever-increasing demand for statistics, we are desired. But with lingering uneasiness about our methods and concepts, we also are feared.

October’s Amstat News member spotlight is on Sherri Rose, a third-year PhD student in biostatistics at UC Berkeley.

The August issue of Technometrics includes 10 articles that cover a broad range of topics, including forecasting, reliability, design of experiments, computer experiments, automatic control, regression, and measurement.

The 2008 “Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences, Second Report” is now available. The report presents information about departments, faculties, and students in the mathematical sciences at four-year colleges and universities in the United States.

Nominations and applications are being sought for several ASA journals. The deadline for nominations is December 1, 2009.