It’s not often statisticians get to shout, “Stop the presses,” but that’s what longtime ASA members Steve Rigdon and Ronald Fricker found themselves doing earlier this year. Just as their book, Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague—the latest in the ASA’s collaborative series with CRC Press—was going to the printer in early 2020, news was emerging about the novel coronavirus.
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Frederick L. Hoffman
The seventh president of the ASA, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman investigated, studied, and recorded details about subjects such as safety and health conditions of industry workers, especially that of miners.
Michigan Tech Student Talks About Future Career in Genetics
The ASA shines the spotlight on member Shurong Fang, a PhD student at Michigan Technological University. Read on to find out how she has been working to develop efficient approaches to investigating the genetic association between human genes and complex diseases such as diabetes.