Meet Brie, who started off as an English major who hated numbers until she read “Love and Math” by Edward Frenkel. A book that changed her life.
New Member Spotlight
New Member Spotlight: Collin Nill
Meet Collin Nill, a University of Connecticut statistics student drawn to the field by a love of math and a desire to tackle problems numbers alone can’t solve.
Meet New Member Jovana Mitic
This month, we’re spotlighting Jovana Mitic, a PhD statistics student at Clemson. She wants to be a data scientist or applied statistician doing modeling that actually gets used, particularly in public health applications.
New Member Spotlight: Apsara Pitigalaarachchi
This month, we’re spotlighting Apsara, a PhD student in biostatistics at the University of Louisville whose journey spans Sri Lanka, Finland, and beyond.
Meet New Member Chris Chung
A statistics student at North Carolina State University, Chung first turned to statistics to support his chemistry research, but now he’s driven to research ideas for statistics.
New Member Spotlight: Claudia Clinchard
Claudia Clinchard shares how a psychology professor sparked her love of statistics and how she now aims to use data science to solve real-world problems.
New Member Spotlight: Eshani Pareek
Trained in biochemistry and biotechnology, Eshani Pareek discovered the power of data during graduate studies, when a statistics course in clinical research showed her how analytics helped patients.
Meet ASA New Members with Spotlight on Leah Qin
This month, we spotlight new ASA member Leah (Yizhuo) Qin, a PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis.
Meet New ASA Members: Spotlight on William Brown
This month, the American Statistical Association is highlighting new member William Brown, who mixes a love of music, hiking, and marathon running with data to help students thrive at New Mexico Junior College. Check out the full list of new ASA members, too!
Meet ASA New Members with Spotlight on Sithija Manage
This month, we spotlight new member Sithija Manage, who answered the following questions so we could get to know him better: How did you become interested in statistics and/or data science? I have always been inspired by my father, who is a statistics professor at Sam Houston State University. He never pushed me to study statistics, […]










