The Annie T. Randall Innovator Award was established to recognize early-career statistical innovators across all job sectors with any level of educational attainment.
ASA Biometrics Section
Nominations Open for Annie T. Randall Innovator Award
To be eligible, candidates should be in the early phase of their professional statistical careers. Committee members appreciate that nontraditional paths are common for trailblazers, so there is no firm cutoff for what is considered early phase.
Loni Tabb Gives Insight on Winning First Annie T. Randall Award
The Annie T. Randall Innovator Award was established to recognize early-career statistical innovators across all job sectors and honor path-breaking Black female statistician Annie T. Randall for her pioneering career in government amid pervasive racial discrimination. Established in 2020 by the Biometrics Section, the award provides a $2,000 prize each year and is co-sponsored by the Mental Health Statistics Section. The inaugural awardee is Loni Tabb, an associate professor at Drexel University.
Biometrics Section News for June 2019
The Biometrics Section lists the JSM 2019 short courses it is cosponsoring.
Biometrics Section News for January
Biometrics Section seeks abstracts for JSM 2018 and applications for project funding.
Biometrics Section Pilots a New Feature, Sponsors Mentoring Program
The Biometrics Section is a Silver Sponsor for the Diversity Mentoring Program at this year’s JSM and is looking for organizers of invited sessions for next year’s JSM.
Biometrics Section Welcomes Invited Session and Short Course Proposals for JSM 2017
The latest news from the ASA’s Biometrics Section, including a call for invited session and short course ideas for JSM 2017.
Biometrics Section News
The latest news from ASA’s Biometrics Section, including its JSM 2016 continuing education courses and invited sessions and this year’s Byar and travel award recipients.
Biometrics Section News
The Biometrics Section invites you to consider volunteering to chair a session at JSM 2016. Aldo, applications are being accepted for funding to support career-development efforts for assistant professors or associate/full professors interested in moving into a new research area.
Biometrics Section News for March
Daniels Durante of the University of Padova was awarded the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award for 2015. Nine travel awards were also given. Read about the winners and what the Biometrics Section has planned for JSM 2015.

