The November Amstat News member spotlight is on Jean Dickinson Gibbons, retired chair of the applied statistics program and Russell Professor at the University of Alabama.

The ASA and Wiley InterScience are excited to announce that ASA members now have a new benefit of membership—free online access to Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (SAM).

A group of 44 scholars traveled from 11 countries to meet in Potomac, Maryland, to share knowledge about the status of women worldwide in chemistry, computer science, and mathematics. The meeting was convened by the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology.

The American Association for Public Opinion Research Executive Council recently found that the refusal by Atlanta-based Strategic Vision LLC to provide sufficient information about the methodology used in its surveys was “inconsistent with AAPOR’s Code of Professional Ethics and Practices and contrary to basic principles of scientific research.”

Established in 1949 by Boyd Harshbarger, the Virginia Tech Statistics Department was one of the first in the nation.