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Last Call to Register for SDSS 2025 in Salt Lake City

April 1, 2025 Leave a Comment

The conference, themed “Bridging Disciplines: Advancing AI, Statistics, and Data Science Together,” will feature keynote speakers, short courses, panel discussions, and networking opportunities.

Earth Day Offers Opportunities for Environmental Advocacy

April 1, 2025 Leave a Comment

David Corliss highlights various Data for Good initiatives addressing environmental challenges, including marine microplastics tracking, frog population monitoring, pollinator studies, and community garden research, while encouraging collaboration through local ASA chapters.

Increasing Resiliency of Critically Important Data Sets: A D4G Imperative

February 4, 2025 Leave a Comment

Shifting political agendas can lead to funding changes, resulting in the reduction or even elimination of staff supporting critical data. Learn about data resiliency in this month’s Stats4Good column.

Introducing Our Newest Members: Spotlight on Sara Neequaye

February 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Sara Neequaye shares what led her to pursue an education in statistics. We also welcome many other new ASA members.

Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics Workshop Creates Lasting Opportunities

February 3, 2025 1 Comment

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The Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics Workshop introduces historically under-represented undergraduate students to biostatistics and offers networking opportunities, mentoring (peer and near-peer), and professional development opportunities to graduate students. Learn more about the history of this workshop.

Final Call: Submit a Late-Breaking Session Proposal to Be on JSM Program

February 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

Alexandra M. Schmidt, McGill University The 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings will take place in Nashville, Tennessee, from August 2–7. If you are not yet part of the program, there is still one opportunity for you to get involved. The program has room to accommodate one to two late-breaking sessions. As the name suggests, these sessions […]

New ASA Journal a Dedicated Platform for Quantitative Scientists

January 11, 2025

Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the use of statistical methods for analyzing imaging data across various disciplines. Currently, imaging data is used in areas such as neuroimaging (using various modalities), medical imaging (including radiomics), satellite imaging, computational imaging, forensic imaging, astronomy, remote sensing, and materials science.  Statistics and Data Science […]

SDSS 2025: Registration, Lightening Talk Submission Open 

January 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

SDSS 2025 will cover topics such as AI in statistics, open-source tools, machine learning, and data science workflows, alongside lightning talks and mentoring. Registration opens January 7.

2024 SPAIG Award Honors Collaboration Between 41 Organizations

January 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

Michelle Shardell, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Xiaojing Wang, University of Connecticut The Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government Award annually recognizes outstanding partnerships among organizations from academia, industry, and government and aims to promote new cross-sector collaborations. This distinct ASA award emphasizes recognition of outstanding collaborations between organizations, while also recognizing […]

Introducing Our Newest Members: Spotlight on Wanying Shao 

January 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

This month, we spotlight new member Wanying Shao, who answered the following questions so we could get to know her better:  How did you become interested in statistics and/or data science?   I became interested in statistics during my undergraduate studies, when I realized its power to solve various real-world problems. Working on these projects helped […]

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