Medpedia is a project sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, the University of Michigan, and several health care organizations. Its goal is “to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine, and the body among medical professionals and the general public.”

Every year at JSM, those staffing the ASA-SIAM series booth offer a short survey to obtain attendee feedback on issues relating to the series. This year’s survey asked demographic questions and then focused on respondents’ use of electronic books (e-books).

At the Joint Statistical Meetings, the ASA Board of Directors voted that all ASA journals will move to make electronic publication their primary medium. This comes with new advantages. Read on to find out what they are.

The first IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting took place at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, June 28–July 1. The new meeting series provides a forum for researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim to communicate and collaborate and promotes communication and collaboration between area researchers and those from other parts of the world.

In 2009, the Biostatistics Consulting and Survey Center in the Department of Biostatistics at the Medical College of Georgia was contracted by the American Statistical Association to design and implement a survey of the association’s nonacademic members in the United States employed by business, industry, or government.