ASA member Scott H. Holan has been selected to serve on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s study panel, “Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery and Innovation: Opportunities Across the Department of Energy.”
Member News
QPRC 2025 to Take Place in Seattle
The 2025 Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be held in Seattle, Washington, from June 15–18.
ICHPS 2025 Offered Opportunity for Professional Growth, Innovative Thinking
Statisticians, health researchers, economists, and policy analysts gathered in San Diego this past January for the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics—a premier event advancing statistical innovations to improve health equity.
Kazeem Kareem Wins Statistical Significance Poster Competition
Kazeem Kareem from Michigan Technical University received a $300 prize for his project, “Statistics Powers Medical Diagnosis: Disease Detection Using Clustering and Image Segmentation.”
Rolf R. Schmitt Honored with Robert E. Skinner Jr. Award
ASA member Rolf R. Schmitt, deputy director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, recently received the 2024 Robert E. Skinner Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award for his four-decade career advancing transportation statistics.
Wanted: Speakers for the Dionne Price Lecture Series
The American Statistical Association invites suggestions for Dionne Price Public Lecture Series speakers. This distinguished series honors Price’s vision of statistics and data science as forces for public good, echoing her chosen theme, “One Community: Informing Decisions and Driving Discovery.”
ASA Pride Scholarship Accepting Nominations
The ASA Pride Scholarship was established to raise awareness and support the success of LGBTQ+ statisticians and data scientists, as well as allies.
January Issue of “JSDSE” Provides Statistics, Data Science Buffet
The Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (JSDSE) emphasizes that “teaching for the statistics (and data science) buffet” helps advance the growth and diversity of the statistics and data science professions.
Introducing Our Newest Members: Spotlight on Sara Neequaye
Sara Neequaye shares what led her to pursue an education in statistics. We also welcome many other new ASA members.
Students Win Hackathon for Health Care Solution
AI4Purpose and the Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences’ inaugural hackathon brought students together for two days of health care innovation and mentorship across multiple categories at the New York University Center for Data Science.