Meet Kalil Deschamps, ASA’s new marketing coordinator.

In this article, you will learn the three main roles an acquisitions editor has in acquiring new books for his or her publisher.

Each Friday, C-SPAN’s “America by the Numbers” segment features information from the U.S. Census Bureau or other agencies in the federal statistical system.

The ASA offered its first “Stats for Staffers” class on April 27 in conjunction with the Senate Office of Education and Training (OET). The class, titled “How Sound Are the Data?,” was the first in the OET’s Critical Statistical Thinking series. Taught by Mary Foulkes of The George Washington University, the class lasted 90 minutes and was attended by 22 staffers from both personal and committee offices.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Section on Statistical Genetics will offer the second annual National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)–funded short course, “Statistical Genetics and Genomics,” from July 9–13.