Highlights from the board’s first meeting of the year, including discussion items, action items, and reported items.
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Biometrics Section Encourages Submitting JSM 2017 Invited Session Proposal
The latest news from the ASA’s Biometrics Section, including a call for invited session ideas for JSM 2017 and recently awarded funding.
Biometrics Section News
The latest news from ASA’s Biometrics Section, including information about invited sessions and short courses at JSM 2017 and funding opportunities for student outreach projects.
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.
NSF Funding for Statisticians by Directorate
ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson examines the implications of NSF’s funding for statisticians and shares tips for applying for funding outside the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences.
Funding Opportunities for Statisticians Meeting
Dave Higdon, chair of the ASA Committee on Funded Research, presented with seven representatives of federal funding agencies at the Funding Opportunities for Statisticians meeting during JSM in Seattle.
NSF Extends Program Funding Interdisciplinary Research of Mathematical Scientists
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences has extended its Mathematical Science Innovation Incubator Program through fiscal year 2015. The program is meant to support the work of mathematical scientists across the NSF directorates.
Funding Opportunities Group Enters Second Year
The Funding Opportunities Group entered its second year this spring, having grown to 130 members.
Biometrics Section News
Biometrics Section news for May 2014
NIH, NSF, Statistical Agencies Receive Final FY14 Budgets
Just over three months into the current fiscal year, Congress and the president finalized the fiscal year 2014 (FY14) budgets, a move facilitated by the December budget deal easing sequestration for both FY14 and FY15.