Rebecca Andridge, Michael Pennell, Patrick Schnell, and James Odei—faculty from The Ohio State University College of Public Health Division of Biostatistics—were recently honored and promoted.
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USPROC Co-Chairs Announce Winners, Future Competition
The co-chairs of the organizing committee announce the winners for the spring 2024 submission cycle.
UConn Sports Analytics Symposium Showcases Student-Oriented Educational Innovation
The fifth UConn Sports Analytics Symposium was held April 12–13 at the University of Connecticut. The event offered a comprehensive program designed to showcase the field’s interdisciplinary impact while fostering collaboration between students, academic programs, and the sports industry.
Two NIH Leaders Honored with Griffith Mentoring Award
The ASA’s Government Statistics Section recently awarded the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award to two women from the National Institutes of Health: Nancy L. Geller, director of the Office of Biostatistics Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Clarice R. Weinberg, principal investigator in the biostatistics and computational biology branch of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Two Take Home Ellis R. Ott Scholarship
The Ellis R. Ott Scholarship Governing Committee awards two $7,500 scholarships to promising master’s and PhD candidates pursuing degrees in statistics and related disciplines. This year, the honorees are Valeria Ovalle Ocampo and Luke Hagar.
Benjamini, Yekutieli, Heller Awarded Second Annual Rousseeuw Prize
Tel Aviv University’s Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli, and Ruth Heller received the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics for their pioneering work on the false discovery rate.
Obituaries for October 2024
Obituaries for ASA members who sadly passed away.
Hadley Wickham Wins 2025 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award
Hadley Wickham is the winner of the 2025 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award for his influence in statistical computing, visualization, graphics, and data analysis through significant contributions to R software.
Buchmann, Ryu, Smit Vega Garcia Receive EDGE Awards
The Mary Beth Ruskai Research Fund for Women helps women advance their research careers through travel, collaboration, or other activities, while the Karen EDGE Fellowship Program supports and enhances the research programs and collaborations of mid-career mathematicians who are members of an underrepresented group.
Obituary: Stephen Richard Webb
Longtime ASA member and aerospace consultant Stephen Richard Webb passed away June 18 at the age of 85.