May marks graduation season and provides an opportunity to show gratitude for those who have guided and motivated us throughout our respective journeys. Here, invited by the ASA GivesBack Team, members express their appreciation through “thank you notes” to those who mentored them.
Mentoring
ASA Mentoring: An Update
While mentoring frequently happens organically, our association—along with its chapters and sections—offers a wide array of mentorship opportunities for both mentors and mentees and provides members with a way to honor outstanding mentors.
Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award
The Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award recognizes and encourages the mentoring of junior staff in the statistical community in federal, state, or local government. It is awarded annually to a supervisor, technical director, team coordinator, or other statistical staff member who is nominated by a supervisor and co-workers for his or her efforts in supporting the work and developing the careers of junior staff. Nominations for the 2019 award will be accepted until March 22.
2018 JSM Diversity Mentoring Program: Why Mentoring Matters
The JSM Diversity Mentoring Program encourages and fosters the development of mentoring relationships and networking for historically under-represented minority graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career professionals with more senior-level statisticians/biostatisticians from academia, government, and industry.
Diversity Mentoring Program Accepting Applications
Applications are being accepted for the JSM Diversity Mentoring Program, which brings minority graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior professionals together with senior-level statisticians and faculty in academia, government, and the private sector in a structured program during the Joint Statistical Meetings.
What Is Mentoring, and Why Is It a Good Thing?
Terry Speed explores the definition of mentoring. Is it a one-to-one, face-to-face interaction, or can it be something more?
On Academic Mentoring
Murali Haran and David Hunter believe mentoring is a skill that needs to be honed. Here, they offer tips on how to improve your mentoring skills and enhance your role as a mentor.
Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: How It Fits into the Statistics Living Learning Community at Purdue
Mark Ward discusses the Living Learning Community at Purdue and shares his tips on peer-to-peer mentoring.
Whoa! Statisticians Put Second City to Shame with Improv Performance at JSM 2016
This month’s President’s Invited Column provides an update on the two media initiatives, the Statistical Media Ambassadors program and the Media Training Workshop.
Washington Statistical Society Builds Community Through Mentoring
The Washington Statistical Society started a mentoring program in January 2015. Mark Otto talks about how it grew and what the society learned.