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Texas A&M to Host CBMS Conference
The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University will host the five-day CBMS conference, “Foundations of Causal Graphical Models and Structure Discovery,” May 15–19 in College Station, Texas.
2023 ASA Election – BOD Candidate Statements and Open Section Positions
The ASA announces the candidates for the 2023 election. Voting begins April 3 and runs through May 1.
NISS to Sponsor Statistics on Combatting Human Trafficking Forum
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences is sponsoring an Ingram Olkin forum to bring world experts together to discuss statistical strategies for estimating the prevalence of human trafficking. The forum will kick off with a webinar from 1–4 p.m. ET on March 15.
ASA History of Statistics Group Wants Input
The History of Statistics Special Interest group will have a new column in CHANCE magazine called History Chronicles and could use your suggestions and submissions for future columns.
Call for Papers: Inclusive Statistics Education with Digital Resources
For the 2024 special issue of Statistics Education Research Journal, guest editors are interested in scholarly articles that address the aspects of inclusion and digital resources in statistics education.
Meetings Task Force Wants Your Input
Task force members are working with ASA meetings staff to understand current policies and procedures for selecting a meeting location and developing a checklist for ASA staff to consider when selecting meeting locations.
Highlights of the November 2022 ASA Board of Directors Meeting
On Friday, November 18, ASA President Kathy Ensor gaveled to order the final 2022 meeting of the ASA Board of Directors. The board met at the ASA headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.
Applications for ASA Science Policy Fellowship Wanted
The ASA seeks applications for its fall of 2023 science policy fellowship. A one- to two-year position, the fellow will be based at the ASA headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia; however, they will spend much of their time in Washington, DC, advocating for statistics and experiencing first-hand how federal science policy is formed.
NSF Appoints New Statistics Program Directors
Yong Zeng of the University of Missouri-Kansas City became a permanent program director and Jun Zhu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison became a rotator program director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation Directorate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences this fall.