The recipients for 2021 are Minhee Kim, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Siddhesh Kulkarni, a PhD candidate at the University of Louisville.
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UGA, Wells Fargo Team Up for Data Science, AI Camp
The department of statistics at the University of Georgia partnered with Wells Fargo to virtually hold the 2021 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Summer Camp for high-school students July 12–23.
Obituaries for October 2021
ASA members Heleno Bolfarine, Lai Kow Chan, Arthur Cohen, Charles Berlin Sampson, and Joel Verter passed away recently .
ASA Member Joins Institute for Defense Analyses as Summer Associate
Andrew Furlong, a student at Carnegie Mellon University, is working toward a bachelor’s degree in statistics and machine learning.
Obituary: John Leroy Folks
ASA member John Leroy Folks passed away May 30, 2021.
People News for August 2021
Susan Murphy and Bin Yu were honored recently.
Katherine Thompson Appointed Statistics Editor of Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
The ASA and AAPOR welcome Katherine Thompson of the US Census Bureau as the next statistics editor for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. Thompson will serve a three-year term.
Obituary: S. James (Jim) Press
ASA member S. James (Jim) Press passed away in November 2020.
Michael Jordan Selected as Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
ASA member Michael Jordan was one of eight distinguished faculty scientists and engineers selected for the 2021 class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows, the US Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award.
People News for June 2021
Paul M. Ellner, Roderick Little, and Joseph Romano were honored recently.