There are many applied sessions taking place at this year’s JSM in Seattle. Here, Chuck Kincaid sorts through some of the best opportunities and lists them for you.

Ian Crandell, from Virginia Tech, visited Nigeria this past January and shares what he learned about cross-cultural statistical collaboration.

Natalie Cheung Hall discusses the benefits of having a master’s degree.

Marcos Carzolio reflects on his summer in Mozambique collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data.

Jonathan Stallings talks about the lessons he learned while being a lead statistical collaborator at Virginia Tech’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis.

Sharon Murray of GlaxoSmithKline, Amarjot Kaur of Merck Research Laboratories, and Jennifer Gauvin of GlaxoSmithKline share some of the ideas for increasing visibility that arose during a panel discussion organized by the members of the Committee on Applied Statisticians.

There is more to career growth than being mentored. Here, Sara Kalicin illustrates how coaching, and sponsoring are also needed to leverage a persons career.

Whitney Murphy, senior statistician for NORC at the University of Chicago, discusses how statistics training can lead to an opportunity in management.

Andy Hoegh describes the essential skills residing in the four domains of the ideal modern statistician.

Master’s level statistician Richard Morris discusses what he would be doing now if he were starting over as a statistician.