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.
Count on Stats: Serving the Wider Community with Data for Good
Count on Stats is a public outreach program that “aims to enhance awareness of the importance, reliability, and trustworthiness of government statistics.”
People News for March 2022
See what ASA members have been up to in March 2022’s People News.
Nominations Open for AMS Awards, Prizes
Celebrate excellence in mathematics scholarship, education, and outreach by nominating colleagues for upcoming American Mathematical Society prizes and awards.
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.
To Get a PhD or Not to Get a PhD? Part 3
The ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians is giving you the experiences of four statisticians who took different paths after their master’s degrees. This month, Allison Florance explains why she found a master’s degree to be right for her.
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.
Apply for the 2020-2021 Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
This fellowship focuses on data science and related expertise such as machine learning, data visualization, and causal inference to meet legislative and policymaking challenges.