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[1 Nov 2022 | Comments Off on COPSS Honors 11 at JSM 2022 | 681 views]

These awards are jointly sponsored by COPSS founding partner members: the American Statistical Association; Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Eastern and Western regions of the International Biometric Society; and Statistical Society of Canada.

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[1 Oct 2022 | Comments Off on Oxford University Hosts EDGE Summer Program for Women in Mathematics | 881 views]

A group of 14 students comprise the 2022 cohort of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Summer Program, designed for women about to enter PhD programs in the mathematical sciences. Now in its 25th year, EDGE has reached a milestone by hosting a program not based in the US.

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[1 Oct 2022 | Comments Off on Leslie McClure Awarded Lectureship | 612 views]

The Barry P. Katz Lectureship in Biostatistics and Health Data Science was created to bring experts in biostatistics and health data science to Indianapolis, the Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.

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[1 Oct 2022 | Comments Off on Obituaries for October 2022 | 1,807 views]

ASA members Bruce Trumbo and Othmar Winkler passed away recently.

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[1 Sep 2022 | Comments Off on Obituaries for September 2022 | 1,249 views]

ASA members Nozer Darabsha Singpurwalla and William (Bill) E. Winkler passed away recently.

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[1 Aug 2022 | Comments Off on First Rousseeuw Prize Awarded for Work on Causal Inference | 912 views]

The King Baudouin Foundation has awarded the prize, worth $1 million, to James Robins, Miguel Hernán, Thomas Richardson, Andrea Rotnitzky, and Eric Tchetgen for their pioneering work on causal inference with applications in medicine and public health.

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[1 Aug 2022 | Comments Off on Two Awarded Ellis R. Ott Scholarships | 561 views]

Therese Azevedo and Ann Marie Weideman were recently awarded the scholarships for the 2022–2023 academic year.

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[1 Aug 2022 | Comments Off on People News for August 2022 | 341 views]

Read about what ASA members have been up to recently.

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[1 Jul 2022 | One Comment | 1,019 views]

Members advise the Census Bureau director on the uses of scientific developments in statistical data collection, survey methodology, geospatial and statistical analysis, and more.

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[1 Jul 2022 | Comments Off on Adji Bousso Dieng Wins 2022 Annie T. Randall Innovator Award | 894 views]

Dieng is recognized for her innovative statistical methods on artificial intelligence and probabilistic machine learning and her focus on societal impact as the founder and president of the nonprofit group The Africa I Know.