This month, we’re spotlighting Apsara, a PhD student in biostatistics at the University of Louisville whose journey spans Sri Lanka, Finland, and beyond.
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Gertrude Cox Scholarship Recipients Reflect on Growth, Mentorship
Abigail Loe and Olivia McGough received the 2025 Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship. Here, they talk about what life has been like since then.
Introducing Our Newest Members: Spotlight on Lida Wang
This month, we feature our newest member, Lida Wang, a fourth-year biostatistics PhD student whose plan is to seek postdoctoral opportunities in statistical genetics and data science fields.
People News for October 2023
Read about recent noteworthy achievements by ASA members in this month’s People News.
Members Share Gratitude for Those Who Made Big Impact on Their Careers
Over the last month, the ASA GivesBack team asked members to submit ‘thank-you notes’ to a mentor who made a big difference for them. Here are some of the submissions received.
My ASA Story: Claire Kelling, PhD Candidate
Claire Kelling joined the ASA in graduate school and had an invaluable experience at the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference in 2017, which sparked her association engagement.
Alyssa Frazee
Alyssa Frazee became interested in statistics during her AP Statistics class in high school, because stats, she discovered, was the tool that helped us cope with uncertainty. Eventually, she earned her PhD in biostatistics and fell in love with programming. She has since dabbled in security, political forecasting, and fraud prevention, but is now a software engineer when she isn’t doing improv or playing the piano.
Undergraduate Statistics Degrees Up 474% Since 2010
The increase in the number of universities granting statistics and biostatistics degrees also continues steadily.
My ASA Story: James Cochran, Associate Dean and Professor
James Cochran says the opportunity to help establish Statistics Without Borders is his most memorable and meaningful experience as an ASA member.
To Get a PhD or Not to Get a PhD? Part 4
The ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians gives you the experiences of four statisticians who took different paths after their master’s degrees. This month, Erin Twomey-Wilson explains why she found a master’s degree to be the best fit for her.