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.
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On Being a Statistics Educator and Loving It
Here, Stephen Miller talks about the challenges and rewards of being an AP Statistics teacher.
Martha Aliaga: An Ideal Teacher
ASA Director of Education Martha Aliaga, who passed away October 15, 2011, was a world-renowned educator and statistician, who affected many both personally and professionally by seizing every opportunity to both teach and encourage others to teach. Read more about her life and accomplishments here.
Sharon Hessney: From Wall Street to Capitol Hill
ASA member Sharon Hessney left a career on Wall Street to teach math to high-school students in Boston and has since become a tireless advocate for the advancement of statistics education.