ASA Past President Sastry Pantula led the final board meeting of 2010 from November 19–20 at the ASA office in Alexandria, Virginia. Board members were joined by incoming members for 2011 as part of the annual transition process. Here are the highlights.

In the featured article of the February issue, Enrique del Castillo and Bianca M. Colosimo consider a different kind of complex data: the geometric shape of an object.

The issues in the 2010 volume covers a wide range of topics, including nonparametric testing for survival data, bootstrap estimation for clustered data, nonparametric functional estimation, time series modeling and prediction, two-sample nonparametric testing, and a review of Spearman’s footrule and Gini’s gamma with complements.

Nancy Geller discusses the big change in coordination of ASA committee activities.

This month’s member spotlight is on Ann Oberg, a statistician who works at the Mayo Clinic.