This year’s SPAIG Award honors the collaboration between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT). Here, William Brenneman from P&G and Roshan Joseph from GT answer a few questions about their collaboration.
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Iowa State Student Wins Jackson Smith Scholarship
Sepideh Mosaferi, a PhD student in the department of statistics at Iowa State University, is the winner of the Government Statistics Section’s 2020 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship.
Pharma Executive Offers Thoughts About COVID-19
Dr. Amrit Ray, global president, R&D and Medical, Upjohn Division, Pfizer Inc., offers his thoughts about the COVID-19 pandemic and how to best protect yourself and your family.
ASA Members Lead at Los Alamos
Amstat News regularly profiles government statisticians. For this issue, we feature two leaders from the statistics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Mollie Orshansky
Molly Orshansky developed the poverty thresholds. The poverty line has become a major feature of the architecture of American social policy.
Virtual Workshops on Blended Data a Success
The Government Statistics Section and Social Statistics Section hosted a free series of virtual workshops as part of the ASA’s professional development program. They will hold another series in the fall of 2020.
FY20 Budget Brings Increases for NIH, Select Statistical Agencies
The FY20 federal budgets were finalized in December and the National Institutes of Health saw its fifth year of multi-billion-dollar increases.
Call for Virtual Workshop Practicum, Student Showcase Submissions
The Government and Social Statistics sections will offer virtual workshops focusing on user applications in fall 2020.
2019 FTC Focus: Setting the Standard for Success in Quality
The Fall Technical Conference brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to discuss ways to more effectively use statistical methods for research, innovation, and quality improvement.
SPAIG Award Goes to Two
Two SPAIG awards were presented during the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings. The first award was presented to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Sanofi Pasteur. The second award went to Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and MassMutual Financial Group.