ASA President Wendy Martinez shares her top 10 highlights from her term and says she ends this year with renewed appreciation of the ASA community.
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Rina Foygel Barber Wins 2020 COPSS Presidents’ Award
The Presidents’ Award parallels the Fields Medal in mathematics and is given annually by COPSS to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. The Presidents’ Award and International Prize in Statistics are the two highest statistics honors.
Highlights from a JSM 2020 Virtual Panel on Professional Development in Statistical Organizations
Abie Ekangaki, Jeri Mulrow, Reneé Moore, Shelley Liu, Glenn White, and Will Eagan presented a virtual panel for the Joint Statistical Meetings that focused on professional development in external professional societies and community groups. The session was titled “E Pluribus Unum: Achieving Your Potential in Statistics Through Different Organizations.”
Diversity Mentoring Program Models Inclusivity During COVID Challenge
The realization that the pandemic was not going anywhere fast came in the middle of the 2020 planning cycle for the Diversity Mentoring Program (DMP). However, the planning committee did not skip a beat in pivoting to a virtual format, which ensured an impactful and engaging program for participants.
Winners of the 2020 COPSS Awards
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. For 2020, three awards were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings on August 5 by COPSS Chair Bhramar Mukherjee and the award committee members.
JSM 2020: Like No Other
“My first JSM was in 1981, and I’ve been to every JSM since 1984. None of them have been anything like the 2020 meeting.” – JSM 2020 Program Chair David Banks
NISS Writing Workshop an Annual Success for Early Researchers
Each year, in conjunction with JSM, NISS gathers a host of senior authors, editors, grant writers/reviewers who share their advice and experiences with a group of junior faculty and early researchers. As JSM went virtual this year, so did the writing workshop, which meant participants who might not have been able to travel to Philadelphia (even under normal circumstances) were able to participate.
Many Honored During Virtual JSM
A special feature of the Joint Statistical Meetings is the ASA awards presentation. Here are some of this year’s awardees.
2020 SPAIG Award Honors Research Collaboration
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.
SRMS Congratulates Award Winners
Members of the Survey Research Methods Section congratulate winners of the 2020 Student Paper Awards and 2020 Student Travel Awards.