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2023 ASA Election – BOD Candidate Statements and Open Section Positions
The ASA announces the candidates for the 2023 election. Voting begins April 3 and runs through May 1.
Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar Elected 2024 ASA President
Madhumita (Bonnie) Ghosh-Dastidar, a senior statistician at the nonprofit RAND Corporation and head of the RAND Statistics Group, was elected the 119th president of the American Statistical Association. She will be the first Asian-American female president and second Asian-American president.
SRMS Announces Officers, Winners, Deadlines
The Section on Survey Research Methods announces new section officers and ASA Fellows, provides information to apply for a student travel award, and encourages members to submit topic-contributed session proposals.
Statistics and Data Science Education Continue to Promote Education in 2021
The Section on Statistics and Data Science Education has had a busy 2021, with members gathering online to continue promoting education in statistics and data science.
Dionne Price Elected 2023 ASA President
Price, of the FDA, has been elected the 118th president of the American Statistical Association for 2023. She will be the first African-American president of the ASA. The membership also elected Nicholas J. Horton of Amherst College as the 2023 vice president.
Text Analysis Interest Group Recaps First Full Year
The ASA’s Text Analysis Interest Group (TAIG) has had a productive first full year. TAIG brings together individuals and groups who have an active interest in text analysis, text mining, natural language processing, and related areas of research at their intersection with statistics.
Katherine Ensor Elected 2022 ASA President
Katherine (Kathy) Ensor, Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University, has been elected the 117th president of the American Statistical Association. The ASA membership also elected Matilde Sanchez-Kam, associate director of analytics and informatics in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the US Food and Drug Administration, ASA vice president.
ASA Members Elect Robert Santos and Dionne Price to Association Leadership
American Statistical Association members elected Robert L. Santos as the association’s 116th president. Santos, vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute, will begin a three-year term on the ASA Board of Directors in January 2020 as president-elect. Dionne L. Price was elected vice president and will also start a three-year term in 2020. Price is director of the Division of Biometrics IV in the Office of Biostatistics in the Food and Drug Administration Office of Translational Sciences, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
2020 ASA Board of Directors Candidates
The ASA announces the selection of candidates for the 2019 election. Voting begins March 15 and goes until May 1. Make sure to look for your ballots in your email inbox.