The National Science Foundation has several funding opportunities that support research, education, and training for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

The 2011 People to People trip to Israel was spent discussing matters of common interest to statisticians, including statistical literacy and general statistical education for various majors in college, training problemsolvers for all sectors (academia, industry, and government), professional development, continuing education, and roles of statisticians in official statistics.

The department of mathematics and statistics and the department of biostatistics at Boston University are hosting the 26th New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) on April 21.

The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute recently partnered with the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics and several institutes in India to form the Virtual Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.

2011 ASA President Nancy Geller reflects on Paul Meier’s life and describes the memorial held in his honor last November.