ASA President Ji-Hyun Lee invites statisticians to attend JSM 2025 in Nashville to reconnect with the community, share research on the theme “Statistics, Data Science, and AI: Enriching Society,” and support one another during challenging times.
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Alabama-Mississippi Conference Highlights Regional Collaboration, Student Achievement
Mississippi State University hosted the 2025 ASA Alabama-Mississippi Chapter Conference, bringing together students, faculty, and professionals for a day of research presentations, keynote talks by Ji-Hyun Lee and Peter Song, and community-focused collaboration in statistics.
Judith Lok Recognized with Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award
On April 28, the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association celebrated Judith J. Lok, a Boston University professor, as the 2025 Mosteller Statistician of the Year for her pioneering contributions to causal inference and clinical trial design methodology.
JASA Reproducibility Award Winners Named
Zihang Wang, Irina Gaynanova, Aleksandr Aravkin, Benjamin B. Risk, Wentao Zhan, and Abhirup Datta received the 2024 JASA Reproducibility Award for their exemplary work in computational reproducibility in statistical research.
Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Offers $1,000 for Government Statisticians
The scholarship is awarded to early-career statisticians so they can explore opportunities in government statistics, honoring Smith’s legacy in federal statistics. Apply by May 1.
Nominations Open for Health Science Awards
The Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences Section offers four annual awards: the Young Investigator Award for promising early-career educators or researchers; the Outstanding Teaching Award for excellence in statistics education; the Distinguished Achievement Award for longtime service to the section and ASA; and Best Contributed Paper at JSM Award. Nominations are open for three of them.
SRMS/GSS/SSS Consortium Student Paper Competition Winners Announced
Five winners and two honorable mentions from 48 submissions will receive $1,000 and present at JSM 2025 in Nashville.
Young Statisticians Prize Deadline Approaches
The International Association for Official Statistics Young Statisticians Prize competition encourages young statisticians to take an active interest in official statistics and is awarded for the best paper in the official statistics field written by a young statistician.
Nominations Sought for Waksberg Award
The journal Survey Methodology established the Waksberg Award and an annual invited paper series in honor of the late Joseph Waksberg to recognize his outstanding contributions to survey statistics and methodology. Each year, a prominent survey statistician is chosen to author a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in the survey statistics and methodology field, reflecting the mixture of theory and practice that characterized Joseph Waksberg’s work.
From Recognition to Inspiration: The Power of Awards in Statistics
Celebrating the accomplishments of statisticians and data scientists helps ASA members see what’s possible for them, too. By nominating colleagues for awards, you support them and the profession.