Why is the paleoclimate group at SAMSI a success? Two of the six participants, Bala Rajaratnam and Elizabeth Mannshardt share their reasons.
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NISS Meeting Addresses Transition
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences held its annual board of trustees meeting November 7–8, 2014, at its headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Read on for details.
People News for December
News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the December issue. For a complete listing of news and information about the members of the ASA, click here.
Mary Batcher to Become Chair of NISS Board of Trustees
Mary Batcher of Ernst and Young will become chair of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences Board of Trustees July 1, 2015. Robert Rodriguez of SAS Institute has been named vice chair.
Alan Karr to Step Down as NISS Director
Alan Karr, director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) since 2000, recently announced he will leave NISS at the end of August.
Post-doctoral Positions: A Path from Graduate School to Career
One way to ease the transition from graduate school to a new career is to take a post-doctoral position. Interviewed here by Jamie Nunnelly is George Luta, a post-doctoral fellow who benefited from such a program.
NISS Director Provides Update on Institute Activities
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences has been busy this year, with several new projects under way and an expanded presence, including new office space, in Washington, DC.
NISS Receives Five-Year Grant for Census Research Network
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences and Duke University received a grant from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Census Bureau for the Triangle Census Research Network.
NISS Helps Construct U.S. Census Bureau’s Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database
The U.S. Census Bureau announced in March that it is releasing its Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database Beta Data Product (SynLBD) for use by the general public.
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) simultaneously celebrated the 20th anniversary of its creation and the 10th anniversary of the formation of its affiliates program.
The pre-history of NISS goes back to a 1984 meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at Lake Tahoe. There, a number of visionaries realized how much the statistical sciences would benefit from deeper engagement in cross-disciplinary research and that an institute was a key component to making this happen. A proposal was sent to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a panel study on cross-disciplinary research. The resulting report, coauthored by Ingram Olkin and Jerome Sacks, was published in 1988.