The Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality is accepting applications for the Ellis R. Ott Scholarship, which supports students in a graduate program with a concentration in applied statistics and/or quality management.
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Twin Cities Chapter Members Represent Statistics at Career Fair
Several members of the Twin Cities Chapter volunteered their time on February 27 to talk with high-school students about potential careers in statistics at a career fair in Elk River, Minnesota.
ASA Leaders Reminisce: Jon Kettenring
In the 17th installment of the Amstat News series of interviews with ASA presidents and executive directors, we feature a discussion with 1997 ASA President Jon Kettenring.
Ellis R. Ott Scholarship
The Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality is offering $7,500 scholarships to support students enrolled in or accepted into a master’s degree or higher program with a concentration in applied statistics and/or quality management.
Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarship
The ASA Quality and Productivity Section announces the 2016 Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarship, which supports student participation in the Quality and Productivity Research Conference.
Four Students Talk Fellowships
Four fellows from the Data Science for Social Good program offer advice and respond to questions about their experiences, views on data science, and future plans.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Meredith Berthelson and Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl discuss one of the most valuable funding mechanisms for mathematics and statistics graduate students: the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
On Being a Fresh Grad
It has been nine months since Andrea Barbo presented, with her classmates, in a poster session as the culmination of a year’s work for their master’s in biostatistics. Here, Barbo and her classmates share their experiences as fresh graduate students and discuss their first jobs post-master’s.
Some Advice for Beginning Graduate Students in Statistics
STATtr@k is a new Amstat News column geared toward people who are in a statistics program, recently graduated from a statistics program, or recently entered the job world. Featured this month is advice from two previous statistics majors who hope to alleviate some of the pressure and anxiety graduate school can cause.
Biostatistics Degrees: Missing Data and Other Issues
Tracking down data on the statistics (including biostatistics) discipline, Keith Crank noticed some of these data come from the ASA’s surveys, some from joint surveys with the American Mathematical Society, and some from government agencies.