Meijing Wu and Di Zhang—editors of the Biopharmaceutical Report—interview Ivan Chan from BMS and Bill Wang from Merck about the impact of regulatory guidance/policies in driving statistical innovation.
Data Science Statement Updated to Include AI
The ASA Committee on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence revised the ASA Statement on the Role of Statistics in Data Science to include artificial intelligence. The statement is now titled the ASA Statement on the Role of Statistics in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
People News for August 2024
John Abowd, D. Anthony Miles, and Frederick Faltin are featured in the news this month.
Nashville Is Calling: Time to Submit JSM 2025 Invited Proposals
With the theme “Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society” in mind, JSM 2025 program committee members invite proposals for invited sessions.
Fulbright US Scholar Program Competition Open
The application deadline for the Fulbright US Scholar Program is September 16.
Paul Dixon Minton
Funded primarily by a training grant from the National Institutes of Health for training biostatisticians, Minton established a new Department of Statistics at Southern Methodist University in 1962.
Mentoring Is the Way
To understand strategies of successful mentoring programs and identify potential gaps, members of the mentoring working group conducted an environmental scan that included surveys of the ASA community. Do you have areas of practice you would like to build communities around? Let the working group know.
Budgets See Cuts, Flat Funding for Research, Federal Statistical Agencies
Finalized in March, the federal government fiscal year 2024 budget generally delivered cuts for research funding and statistical agencies. President Joe Biden’s FY25 budget request was also more modest than in past years, largely requesting flat funding.
WSDS Provides Student Travel Awards
Awards are available to help students and early-career professionals pay for the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference.
Nominations Open for the International Prize in Statistics
Nominations are open through October 1 for the 2025 International Prize in Statistics, awarded for a major achievement developed over time.