To mark the launch of ASA Career Connect, a site that will make it easier for employers and ASA members to connect, this month’s “Practical Significance” episode focuses on career advice. ASA past presidents Sastry Pantula and Wendy Martinez, along with SPAIG Chair Satrajit Roychoudhury, join cohosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein to share invaluable […]
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Kimberly S. Weems
Currently a statistics professor at North Carolina Central University, Kimberly S. Weems has been instrumental in enhancing the graduate mathematics curriculum with statistics courses. She strives to expose her students to a variety of areas in statistics and data science and encourages them to pursue the path that inspires them, as she thinks this will lead to the happiest and most productive careers. She is the 2017 recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.
A Commitment to Community Reaches 10-Year-Old at StatFest
This year’s StatFest brought 150 students and professionals to Emory University to connect to and learn from graduate students; early career professionals; and established leaders in academia, industry, and government.
People News for October
News and information about members of the ASA highlighted in the October issue. For a complete listing of news and information about the members of the ASA, click here.
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.
Infinite Possibilities Conference Held at Oregon State University
The biennial 10th Infinite Possibilities Conference—held at Oregon State University in March—focused on empowering, educating, celebrating, and promoting the careers of under-represented minority women in mathematical and statistical sciences.
NSF and Eli Lilly Partnering on Internship Program
The Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation and Global Statistical Sciences at Eli Lilly and Company have joined forces to establish an internship program. The 12-week summer program offers an opportunity for NSF’s graduate research fellows in statistics or related fields to gain research and real-world experience at Lilly.
SPAIG Sponsors Informative Session in San Diego
Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) offered an informative invited session titled “The Impact of Collaborations Between Academe and Business/Industry/Government on the Profession” during JSM in San Diego. Read on to find out who spoke.
A Seven-Year Itch … or a Seventh-Inning Stretch
Sastry Pantula, 2010 president of the ASA, looks back on his years of service to the association and enthusiastically views the years ahead.
Until We Meet Again …
ASA President Sastry Pantula bids farewell to Amstat News readers as he passes on the baton (or gavel) to Nancy Geller.