Many ASA sections sponsor student paper competitions to reward gifted students and help them mitigate the costs of attending JSM, which is an opportunity for students to get involved in the profession.
Award Deadlines and Information
Nominate a Colleague for Waksberg Award
The award committee chooses a prominent survey statistician to write a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in survey statistics and methodology.
Deadlines and Contact Information for Select ASA National Awards, Special Lectureships, and COPSS Awards
The ASA’s extensive awards program recognizes statisticians who have made outstanding contributions through research, teaching, consulting, and service to the association and statistical profession. These awards are listed in order of deadline date.
Nominate a Colleague for COPSS Award
Check out this overview of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Awards, which will be presented at JSM 2023.
Nominations Sought for Stan Altan Paper Award
Nominated papers must address a relevant topic in nonclinical biostatistics disciplines for the biopharmaceutical industry.
Nominations Sought for Ethel Newbold Prize
The Bernoulli Society’s Newbold Prize Committee invites nominations for the Ethel Newbold Prize, which will be awarded to an early- or mid-career statistical scientist.
Apply for WSDS 2022 Travel Awards
Applications for aid from students and early-career professionals must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET on August 22.
Apply for Student and Early-Career Travel Funds
The purpose of the ASA Student and Early Career Travel Fund is to encourage students and early-career professionals to become engaged in the statistical community through participation in ASA-sponsored professional meetings.
Riffenburgh Award Honors Cross-Disciplinary Work
The award will recognize the transfer or extension of statistical methods developed for or used in one field of application into another where it has never or seldom been used.
ASA Announces David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award
Endowed by a gift from Deborah G. Mayo, professor emerita of philosophy at Virginia Tech, the award honors the contributions of Cox to the foundations of statistical inference, experimental design, and data analysis.


