ASA members Donald Young, Jane Gentleman, and Donald Guthrie passed away recently.
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Bryant Scholarship Applications Wanted
Applications for the Edward C. Bryant Scholarship for an Outstanding Graduate Student in Survey Statistics are being accepted until March 1. One scholarship recipient is selected annually and receives a certificate and cash prize of $2,500.
Katherine Thompson Appointed Statistics Editor of Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
The ASA and AAPOR welcome Katherine Thompson of the US Census Bureau as the next statistics editor for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. Thompson will serve a three-year term.
The Value of Vulnerability to Statisticians
ASA President Rob Santos says being vulnerable can lead to genuine intellectual, personal, and career growth. It’s about being honest with yourself and others, allowing yourself to take your best shot at a career choice or a novel approach to a problem, or voicing a totally different perspective on research that gets people to think more critically.
Sharon Lohr Receives Waksberg Award
The 2021 recipient of the Waksberg Award is Sharon Lohr, who will give the Waksberg Invited Address at the Statistics Canada 2021 Symposium and write a paper for Survey Methodology.
Samuel Echevarría-Cruz
From his first undergraduate social statistics course, Samuel Echevarría-Cruz fell in love with both the analytical precision and creative power of statistical methods. He now spends his time teaching sociology courses to Austin Community College students and statistics in local MBA and MPH programs. He is also proud of his Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage.
Emily H. Griffith
Emily Griffith took statistics in high school to avoid taking a “real” math class. Unfortunately for her plan to avoid math, she fell in love with statistics and ended up finishing college with a degree in statistics and a minor in math. She eventually earned her PhD, completed a postdoc at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, and then worked as a survey statistician for the FBI. She was recently named director of the North Carolina State University’s Statistical Consulting Core.