The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 poster and project competitions. First-place winners received $200, a plaque, a plaque for their school, and graphing calculators from Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $100 and a plaque; third-place winners received $50 and a plaque; and honorable mentions received certificates.
The competitions are directed by the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability. Information about the competitions—including entry forms, instructional webinars, and a rubric of how the posters and projects are judged—is available on the ASA Education website via the K–12 link.

Last month, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager Keith Crank wrote about The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States, a recent report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). He expressed his disappointment with the report, especially with its authors’ failure to use data appropriately. This month, Crank brings up one more issue with the data and relates it to what’s going on in statistics and biostatistics.

The June 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Statistical Association features a diverse set of articles. Here are the highlights.

Highlights from volume 3, issue 4 of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, which features three prize-winning works.

Here are the highlights to the August 2010 issue of Technometrics, which opens with the feature article “Nonparametric Profile Monitoring by Mixed Effects Modeling” by Peihua Qiu, Changliang Zou, and Zhaojun Wang.