Proposals for JSM 2023 invited sessions are due in early September, and proposals for topic-contributed sessions are due in early December.
CAUSE Offers Cartoon Caption Contest
The contest is open to all who use or enjoy statistics, including students, instructors, and professionals.
Significance Highlights: June Issue Looks at Using Social Media to Measure Subjective Well-Being
The issue also looks at Wordle, the gender breakdown of most Significance writers, college admissions during COVID-19, women and astronomers, and data-driven advertising.
Adji Bousso Dieng Wins 2022 Annie T. Randall Innovator Award
Dieng is recognized for her innovative statistical methods on artificial intelligence and probabilistic machine learning and her focus on societal impact as the founder and president of the nonprofit group The Africa I Know.
Committee Spotlight: Committee on Career Development
The ASA Committee on Career Development’s mission is to provide support and information about career decisions to statisticians. Here, Elizabeth Mannshardt tells us how the committee works to accomplish that mission.
Apply for Student and Early-Career Travel Funds
The purpose of the ASA Student and Early Career Travel Fund is to encourage students and early-career professionals to become engaged in the statistical community through participation in ASA-sponsored professional meetings.
Riffenburgh Award Honors Cross-Disciplinary Work
The award will recognize the transfer or extension of statistical methods developed for or used in one field of application into another where it has never or seldom been used.
Peter A. Parker Receives Gerald Hahn Award
Parker is a renowned NASA expert and recognized leader in the statistics field.
Register for WSDS 2022 Today
The Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference will convene in person to celebrate women in statistics and data science and bring together leaders from academia, government, and industry.
ASA GivesBack: Stories from the Fields
The six GivesBack members recently held a panel discussion in which they talked about ways their jobs are engaged in giving back to public health, society, and drug development.