The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) is pleased to announce the winners of two recent undergraduate-level statistics project competitions. Read on to learn more.

The 2013 recipient of the Roger Herriot Award is the 1973 Current Population Survey (CPS)-Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-Social Security Administration (SSA) Exact Match Study. The study was a joint undertaking by the SSA and U.S. Census Bureau that linked survey records for persons in the March 1973 CPS to their respective earnings and benefit information in SSA administrative records and to selected items from their 1972 IRS individual income tax returns.

Gary R. Sullivan discusses leadership development for statisticians.

CDC Stacks is a free digital repository of publications produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This month, ASA President Marie Davidian discusses the opinions and comments about this year’s JSM in Montréal.