ASA President Sastry Pantula was recently appointed Division Director for Mathematical Sciences in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation.
NSF
Counting Statisticians: How Many of Us Are There?
Keith Crank, ASA’s Research and Graduate Education Manager tries to answer the question: How many biostatisticians are there worldwide and how many statisticians are working in the United States?
National Research Council’s Evaluation of VIGRE Program Released
In the 1980s and 1990s, there was concern within the mathematical sciences community that postsecondary education in the mathematical sciences was in trouble. The National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a program of Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences (VIGRE). These grants were designed for institutions with PhD-granting departments in the mathematical sciences, to develop quality education programs, that are vertically integrated with the research activities of these departments. Here, members of the Committee to Evaluate the program share their findings.
NSF, CBMS Announce Conference Series
The National Science Foundation will hold six conferences jointly with the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences in the spring and summer of 2010. Proposals for these conferences, which aim to stimulate interest and activity in mathematical research, will be accepted until April 23.
Member Spotlight Jean Dickinson Gibbons
The November Amstat News member spotlight is on Jean Dickinson Gibbons, retired chair of the applied statistics program and Russell Professor at the University of Alabama.
NISS to Work on Surveillance Project
The National Science Foundation and Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded $664,019 to the National Institute of Statistical Sciences for collaborative research to develop Bayesian methods for syndromic surveillance.