Starting in 2025, the Dionne Price Public Lecture will be a celebration of our profession, which informs decisions and drives discoveries, and will advance the mission of promoting the practice and profession of statistics. The series is supported by donations, which are used to pay for expenses associated with an annual lecture, including an honorarium and travel expenses for the lecturer, the venue, and livestreaming.
Catching Up with Nathan Yau: 14 Years Later
We recently caught up with Nathan Yau to see what he has learned since 2010 and what he can teach statisticians and data scientists about data visualization and information design.
Pilot Program to Allow Exception to One Session Policy at JSM 2025
In a groundbreaking move for JSM, the ASA Membership Council and JSM Policy Committee launched a pilot program allowing select presenters to participate in both technical and professional development sessions in 2025.
Extending Horizons: Data for Good Collaborations Across Academia, Industry, Government
David Corliss looks at how statisticians and data scientists working in industry are the best people to help identify scientists in academia and government who can provide essential expertise.
Buchmann, Ryu, Smit Vega Garcia Receive EDGE Awards
The Mary Beth Ruskai Research Fund for Women helps women advance their research careers through travel, collaboration, or other activities, while the Karen EDGE Fellowship Program supports and enhances the research programs and collaborations of mid-career mathematicians who are members of an underrepresented group.
NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education Teams Up with Statisticians, Data Scientists
To bridge the gap between the statistical community and the National Science Foundation, we continue to pose questions to NSF program officers and awardees. This month’s program officer is from the Division of Undergraduate Education and the awardees are from several universities. Here, they discuss the innovative efforts and impactful projects making a difference in undergraduate education.
Data Visualization Poster & Statistics Project Competition Winners
First-place winners received $300, a certificate, and grade-appropriate graphing calculators provided by Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $200 and a certificate, third-place winners received $100 and a certificate, and honorable mentions received certificates.
Rethinking Faculty Research Evaluation
Bertrand Clarke, Murali Haran, Galin Jones, and Steven MacEachern look at academia and the increasing emphasis on publishing many papers.
‘Practical Significance,’ Take II: With a Little Help from My Friends … Mentoring and the ASA
During a recent episode of the ASA podcast, Practical Significance, Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein interviewed Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Ruth Etzioni, and Carolyn Rutter about strengthening and expanding mentoring in the ASA community and the working group.
SDSS 2024: Forging Connections and Bridging the Gap
More than 300 attendees in Richmond, Virginia, took short courses; gave and attended paper, poster, and panel sessions; mingled and made new friends between sessions; and immersed themselves in the city’s historic neighborhoods.