The National Science Foundation and U.S. Census Bureau have awarded interdisciplinary research grants aimed at finding new ways to interpret social, behavioral, and economic data and new ways to use and disseminate the resulting statistics.
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FY13 Budget Request: Flat Funding to Significant Increases for NIH, NSF, Statistical Agencies
The president’s Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) budget request included some bright spots for research funding agencies and the federal statistical agencies.
NSF Announces Education, Training Funding
The National Science Foundation has several funding opportunities that support research, education, and training for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
SAMSI Announces New Partnerships, Initiative
The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute recently partnered with the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics and several institutes in India to form the Virtual Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.
Modeling Course Planned for Summer
Students with an interest and background in paleoecology, terrestrial ecosystem modeling, and/or statistics are encouraged to apply for the PalEON summer course, Assimilating Long-Term Data into Ecosystem Models.
NSF Offers Funding Opportunities for Statistics Community
The Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation announces several funding opportunities directly relevant to the statistics community.
ASA Fellowship and Research Program
The ASA/NSF/BLS Research Fellowship Program seeks fellows to conduct research in residence at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The End Is Near
Keith Crank, ASA research and graduate education manager, has been writing regular Amstat News articles for almost five years, but that will soon end, as he plans to retire from the ASA at the end of the year.
NSF Director Recognizes Importance of Statistics
In October of 2010, Subra Suresh became the 13th director of the National Science Foundation. In May, ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein conducted an interview with Suresh to learn about his views of the statistics discipline.
NSF and NIH: Funding for FY11
Keith Crank discusses the FY 2011 appropriations.