James Landwehr, chair of the board of trustees for the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), recently announced Mary Ellen Bock, Lee Wilkinson, and James Thomas as the recipients of this year’s NISS distinguished service awards. The awards were presented by Alan Karr, director of NISS, at the NISS/SAMSI reception held on August 2 at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the October issue. For a complete listing of news and information about members of the ASA, click here.

Five assistant professors in the statistics program of the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech have earned the National Science Foundation CAREER Award throughout the last four years.

Members of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies are pleased to announce the 2010 award winners, presented during JSM in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 4 by COPSS president, Xihong Lin.

This is a listing of ASA members who have recently passed away. For a complete listing of the most recent members’ obituaries, click here.

News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the August issue. For a complete listing of news and information about members of the ASA, click here.

The Princeton Trenton Chapter held its annual spring meeting on June 11; adaptive design was the topic.

The Snake River Chapter’s annual business meeting, held on June 4 in Boise, Idaho, featured an invited talk by Robert Lund, an ASA Fellow and professor in the department of mathematical sciences at Clemson University.

Members of the Quality and Productivity Section invite you to attend the 54th Annual Fall Technical Conference (FTC), which will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, from October 6–9. The conference is a premier forum in which to discuss topics at the interface of statistics and quality, leading to a more effective use of statistics to improve quality.

On the afternoon of June 23, Deborah H. Griffin of the U. S. Census Bureau was presented with the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award in the conference center of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.