To strengthen the connection between the statistical community and National Science Foundation, we continue the series introduced in the May 2023 issue that poses questions to NSF program officers and awardees. This month, the NSF Statistics Program Directors take a closer look at funding research proposals.
National Science Foundation
The Math Alliance
The Math Alliance is a national mentoring community focusing on increasing traditionally excluded American minorities in the quantitative sciences professions.
Insights from Program Officers, Awardee on Funding and Research Strategies
To strengthen the connection between the statistical community and National Science Foundation, we continue the series introduced in the May 2023 issue of Amstat News that poses questions to NSF program officers and awardees.
Po-Ling Loh Shares Insights on NSF CAREER Award
This month, awardee Po-Ling Loh tells us how she earned her CAREER award.
Highlights of the March 31 – April 1, 2023, ASA Board of Directors Meeting
The first meeting of the 2023 ASA Board of Directors featured the ASA’s first LinkedIn Live event—a conversation with the ASA Board of Directors.
NSF Corner: New Series Explores ASA-NSF Connection
Kathy Ensor, 2022 ASA president, established a working group with representation from the ASA Caucus of Academic Representatives and Committee on Funded Research to strengthen the connection between the statistical community and National Science Foundation. In NSF Corner, working group members seek to support NSF’s work to advance statistics and data science research and work with the ASA community to identify and communicate ASA priorities to NSF.
NSF Appoints New Statistics Program Directors
Yong Zeng of the University of Missouri-Kansas City became a permanent program director and Jun Zhu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison became a rotator program director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation Directorate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences this fall.
UConn Sports Analytics Symposium Boasts New Features
The fourth UConn Sports Analytics Symposium was supported by a three-year conference grant from the National Science Foundation and included a data challenge.
Meeting Goals and Making More
In her last column as ASA President, Katherine Ensor revisits her initiatives and reviews her contributions to the American Statistical Association.
ASA Recognizes Academic Departments for JEDI Efforts
Learn how the University of Iowa, New York University, and Indiana University are prioritizing justice, equality, diversity, and inclusion.