Planning is underway for the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings, taking place August 1–6 in Boston, Massachusetts. Invited sessions have been accepted, and student awards have been announced.
The Survey Research Methods Section will sponsor five invited sessions this year. Two of these—Strategies in Creating Community Area Estimates in Health Surveys and Survey Research at the Crossroads: Novel Pathways to Better Data Science—speak to the 2026 conference theme of Communities in Action: Advancing Society.
The other invited sessions cover a range of subjects, including AI, nonprobability samples, and health-related applications.
The following students won paper and travel awards:
- Arisa Sadeghpour of the University of California, Berkeley
- Sean Tomlin of The Ohio State University
- Jungang Zou of Columbia University
- Sergio Daniel Martinez of the University of Michigan
- Yanhao Lu of the University of Virginia
- Shubao Zhang of Columbia University
The application for JSM 2027 awards will be available in October. SRMS is committed to helping students attend JSM and encourages applications.
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