ASA members Donald Young, Jane Gentleman, and Donald Guthrie passed away recently.
Oregon State University
Merlise A. Clyde
Growing up, Merlise Clyde loved science, math, and the outdoors but really had no idea about careers in mathematics, let alone statistics. She discovered statistics while at Oregon State University studying forestry ecology. There was no major in statistics then, but she took every statistics course she could fit into her degree. Clyde ultimately earned her PhD in statistics from the University of Minnesota. She is best known for her research in Bayesian model selection/model averaging with mixtures of g-priors (and the associated R package BAS); however, her greatest accomplishment has been in Bayesian nonparametric regression using Lévy processes for Lévy adaptive regression kernels.
Oregon State’s New Programs to Address Data Scientist Shortage
Oregon State will address the data scientist shortage by training an array of new professionals through a pair of online graduate programs in data analytics.
ASA Leaders Reminisce: Sastry Pantula
In the eighth installment of the Amstat News series of interviews with ASA presidents and executive directors, we feature a discussion with 2010 President Sastry Pantula.