Recently, the National Registration and Statistics Office of Mongolia and National University of Mongolia co-hosted a series of events under the theme “Applied Statistics: Teaching, Research, and Business Innovation.” The events were organized jointly with professors from the University of Alabama, Yale University, and Penn State University. Read on to find out what they accomplished.

Temple University’s Department of Statistics has been renamed the department of statistical science to reflect the discipline’s evolution.

Highlights from the board’s meeting at the Joint Statistical Meetings, including discussion items, action items, and reported items.

ASA members of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group recently coauthored a technical memo that accompanied an Amnesty International report detailing the conditions and mortality in Syrian prisons from 2011 to 2015.

“Your gifts will help many improve research literacy in the world,” Ronald LaPorte said about the generous donations of statistics books to improve statistical literacy in developing countries.