ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson examines the implications of NSF’s funding for statisticians and shares tips for applying for funding outside the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences.

The ASA’s Committee on Funded Research is working to foster greater awareness of the importance of statistics at several funding agencies and to help ensure agency leadership has access to statistical expertise when needed.

Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences is a relatively new funding opportunity managed by the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation. The next submission window is November 25 to December 9.

Wendy Martinez and Alyson Wilson discuss the many Army funding opportunities available from the Army Research Office for statisticians and researchers from academia and industry.

Amy Herring presents tips for writing an excellent statistical analysis plan or biostatistical core for a biomedical or public health research grant with a primary focus outside of biostatistics.

Jeremy M G Taylor describes the process of writing and submitting a grant application.

Representatives from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and National Security Agency will be available for a dialogue at this year’s JSM. Officials from each funding organization will describe their programs in presentations from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. From 11 a.m. to noon, the program directors will be available to shed light on processes, answer questions, and hear concerns.

Keith Crank discusses the FY 2011 appropriations.

The Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation recently asked the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications to study the state of the mathematical sciences and make projections. Here, Keith Crank shows us how statistics can be involved.

Keith Crank discusses the FY 2012 federal budget, focusing on the budgets for the National Science Foundation, its Division of Mathematical Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health.