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.
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UCLA Researchers Give NSF Funding Advice
NSF Statistics Program directors respond to questions about how to become an NSF reviewer and NSF awardees offer advice about applying for NSF funding.
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.
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.
Administration Releases FY23 Budget Request as Congress Finalizes FY22 Budget
Congress wrapped up its funding for the federal government for fiscal year 2022 in March, the sixth month of the fiscal year. With the Biden administration releasing its fiscal year 2023 within a few weeks, Congress had to almost immediately start the process again. The National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation both received 4 percent increases. Several statistical agencies also received 3–6 percent increases.
Big Tent for Statistics and Data Science
ASA promised to be the “Big Tent for Statistics and Data Science,” and ASA President Kathy Ensor shares the work the association is doing to fulfill this promise and extend its leadership by highlighting three important initiatives.
Rhonda D. Fitzgerald
Rhonda followed in her father’s footsteps and earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics. After a family friend told her about this ‘new’ field called biostatistics, she propelled her journey forward and became the second African American to complete her PhD in biostatistics from Virginia Commonwealth University. Rhonda has received many awards and accolades as a tenured professor, but she is most proud of the relationships she has formed with her students and the impact she has made on their lives.
Call for Proposals: New Program Focuses on Methodologies, Tools, Infrastructure for Internet Measurements
The goal of the program is to encourage, coordinate, and connect research in Internet measurement in a comprehensive manner.
2022 Research Fellowships at BLS, BEA Available
The ASA, in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis under a grant from the National Science Foundation, is offering senior research fellow programs.