The San Antonio Chapter, in collaboration with the ASA Student Chapter at the University of Texas at San Antonio, hosted a membership social/mixer in October.
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Strengthening the Profession Through Chapter Involvement
In addition to supporting individual chapter-level activities and association-wide initiatives, the Council of Chapters is dedicated to making use of the Joint Statistical Meetings to strengthen chapters. Is your chapter representative going to the sponsored meetings?
Annual Connecticut Chapter Mini-Conference
The 12th Annual Connecticut Chapter Mini-Conference, “Statistics in Evidence Synthesis—Personalized Medicine and Comparative Effectiveness Research,” will be held March 26 on the Boehringer-Ingelheim campus in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
The New Jersey Chapter Co-sponsors Benefit/risk Workshop
The New Jersey Chapter of the ASA and Bayer Pharmaceuticals co-sponsored a benefit/risk workshop at Bayer in November 2013.
Ann Arbor Chapter Gets Creative to Woo Members
The objective of the ASA Ann Arbor Chapter is to promote the science of statistics, provide statisticians and statistics practitioners the opportunity to network with likeminded individuals, and stimulate membership in the ASA. Read on to find out how the chapter accomplished the latter this past year.
Chapters Judge Michigan Science Fair
Enjoying another year in a long-standing tradition as a joint special awards team at the Southeast Michigan Science Fair, the Detroit and Ann Arbor chapters judged projects on March 8. The purpose was to recognize and encourage the students’ incorporation of statistical methods in their science projects.
Central Indiana Chapter Rocks with Brad Carlin, Bayes
Brad Carlin, Mayo Professor in Public Health, engages members of the ASA’s Indiana Chapter with his short course “Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis, Meta-Analysis, and Adaptive Trials”
Chapters Team to Award Science Fair Projects in Michigan
Continuing a two-decades–long tradition as a joint special awards team at the Southeast Michigan Science Fair, nine members of the Detroit and Ann Arbor ASA chapters judged projects on March 9. The team gave out three levels of special awards for projects exhibiting varying levels of use of statistics: certificates of recognition, certificates of merit, and awards of excellence.
Reaching 20k
The ASA will celebrate its 175th anniversary in 2014. In preparation, Monica Johnston, chair of the ASA Committee on Membership Retention and Recruitment, looks at ways to turn student members into regular members after they graduate.