As a DataFest host, Ben Baumer from Five Colleges reflects on what makes DataFest so valuable—from student creativity to community building.
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Spending the Weekend with Data: The Appeal of DataFest for Students
What draws students to DataFest, where they tackle messy, real-world data sets during an intense, collaborative weekend?
15 Years of DataFest: Celebrating the Celebration of Data
What started in 2011 as a single event at UCLA has grown into a global celebration of data. In this special collection, organizers, mentors, judges, data donors, and students share how DataFest has evolved, inspired careers, built partnerships, and broadened participation in data science over the past decade and a half.
CBMS 2026 Math Survey Tracks College Enrollment Trends
The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences 2026 Mathematical Sciences Survey will collect enrollment data from US math and statistics departments nationwide, continuing a five-decade tradition of tracking educational trends to help institutions understand student patterns and secure academic resources.
NSF Funds Digital Twins, AI, ML Research
Snigdhansu Chatterjee was awarded a grant to study neurodegenerative diseases using digital twin modeling. Digital twin modeling might yield new insights into neurodegenerative diseases and revolutionize their treatment and prevention.
Mallick Honored with Regents Professor Award
ASA Fellow Bani K. Mallick, a professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University, was recently designated a Regents Professor by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
NSF Institutes Develop AI for Public Benefit
In his Stats4Good column, David Corliss discusses the NSF’s 25 national artificial intelligence research institutes to create a cohesive approach to AI-related opportunities and risks.
Application Open for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for outstanding early-career graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers.
SDSS 2024: Forging Connections and Bridging the Gap
More than 300 attendees in Richmond, Virginia, took short courses; gave and attended paper, poster, and panel sessions; mingled and made new friends between sessions; and immersed themselves in the city’s historic neighborhoods.
Infusing Data-Centered Pedagogy into Introductory Statistics
To strengthen the connection between the statistical community and National Science Foundation, we continue the series that poses questions to NSF program officers and awardees. This month, we focus on awardee responses from a team at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University led by Sayed Mostafa.