Jeff Leek, vice president and chief data officer of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, presented the 2024 Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics on April 15.
Richard Zink: Reflections on Volunteering with the Biopharmaceutical Section
Reflecting on nearly five years since serving as the 2019 chair of the Biopharmaceutical Section, Richard Zink highlights his journey and contributions to the section’s growth. He also offers suggestions for those interested in volunteering.
Predict 5 Contest Winners Looked to the Past to Predict the Future
Congratulations to the winners of the Predict Five competition that involved predicting events that took place in April 2024 as part of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
ASA/AAAS Mass Media Fellow Hopes to Address Disparities in Health Care
ASA/AAAS Mass Media Fellow and Duke computer science major Freya Gulamali will spend 10 weeks this summer as a science journalist with The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Lumivero Offers $20,000 Research Grant for Early-Career Researchers
The grant will go to a researcher who shares Lumivero’s commitment to improving the world through research excellence.
Highlights of the April 19–20, 2024, ASA Board of Directors Meeting
The ASA Board convened in April and approved editor appointments, made minor changes to naming and renaming policies for ASA awards, and recommended changes to the bylaws.
ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop Provides Student Travel Grants
There is funding for a maximum of 10 student travel grants to support students’ participation in the workshop.
Introducing Our Newest Members: Spotlight on Stephen Lewis
We’re excited to unveil our latest series, which we introduce one of our newest members. This month, we welcome Stephen Lewis, who looks to connect with statisticians in the field of sports.
Telling Our Stories of Innovation and Impact
In her column this month, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar shares three stories about individuals using statistics and data science to make the world a better and more equitable place.
JASA Partners with Authors to Enhance Reproducibility
In 2016, the Journal of the American Statistical Association Applications and Case Studies introduced a reproducibility initiative to address the lack of standardized practices for reproducibility in scientific research. This initiative established minimum criteria for the inclusion of code, data, and workflow for JASA Applications and Case Studies papers and piloted a new editorial role—associate editor of reproducibility—to implement these standards. This initiative has since expanded to all original research manuscripts published in the journal.