The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences 2026 Mathematical Sciences Survey will collect enrollment data from US math and statistics departments nationwide, continuing a five-decade tradition of tracking educational trends to help institutions understand student patterns and secure academic resources.
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New Grants Available to Fund Faculty Research
The American Mathematical Society and Simons Foundation recently created a program to foster and support research by mathematicians at primarily undergraduate institutions.
What Is Statistics?
Is the field of statistics a branch of mathematics, science, or something else altogether?
ASA Signs on as Host of JMM 2022
The ASA will join other societies and associations as a partner with the American Mathematical Society to hold the Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest annual mathematics gathering in the world, in 2022.
Leroy P. Steele Prizes
The American Mathematical Society invites you to celebrate excellence in mathematics scholarship by nominating a colleague for the 2022 Leroy P. Steele prizes. Nominations run through March 31.
Jack Carl Kiefer
Jack was an international leader in mathematical statistics and undoubtedly the foremost worker in optimal experimental design. Of the more than 100 items in his bibliography, more than 45 were on optimal design. He was also a recognized authority on mycology, having written several papers on classification.
Celebrate the Significance of Mathematics and Statistics
April marks a time to increase the understanding and appreciation of mathematics and statistics. Why? Because both subjects play a significant role in addressing many real-world problems—climate change, disease, sustainability, the data deluge, internet security, and much more. Research in these and other areas is ongoing, revealing new results and applications every day in fields such as medicine, manufacturing, energy, biotechnology, and business. Mathematics and statistics are important drivers of innovation in our technological world, in which new systems and methodologies continue to become more complex.
Awards for Women Fall Short
The Association for Women in Science undertook the AWARDS project in cooperation with the ASA, American Mathematical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, and Society for Neuroscience to determine what percentage of awards are going to women. Measuring against percentage of PhDs going to women from 1971–2000, the percentage of scholarly awards going to women fell short in all but one of the societies.
Biostatistics Degrees: Missing Data and Other Issues
Tracking down data on the statistics (including biostatistics) discipline, Keith Crank noticed some of these data come from the ASA’s surveys, some from joint surveys with the American Mathematical Society, and some from government agencies.