ASA Fellow Rebecca Andridge has been awarded The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching for her help in shaping public health education.
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Brittney Bailey
Brittney Bailey pursued graduate study at The Ohio State University, ultimately transitioning to a PhD program in biostatistics. Today, at Amherst College, Bailey advances research in mental health and aging.
Practical Significance | Episode 58: Celebrating Grace Wahba—Scholar, Mentor, Pioneer—with Ming Yuan and Yoonkyung Lee
Grace Wahba was awarded the 2025 International Prize in Statistics in recognition of her groundbreaking work on smoothing splines, which has transformed modern data analysis and machine learning. Wahba was among the earliest to pioneer the use of nonparametric regression modeling. She joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967 as the first female faculty member […]
Florence Nightingale Day Encourages Students to Pursue Statistics, Data Science
The fifth annual celebration of Florence Nightingale Day spanned six months and was started in 2018 to promote future career opportunities.
Stan Lemeshow to Retire After 24 Years at Ohio State
During his 24 years at The Ohio State University, Stan Lemeshow was a prolific author, international leader in statistical modeling, and passionate teacher—never leaving the classroom, even during the decade he served as founding dean of the college of public health.
Obituaries for September 2022
ASA members Nozer Darabsha Singpurwalla and William (Bill) E. Winkler passed away recently.
Jessica Kohlschmidt
Jessica K. Kohlschmidt grew up in Houston, Texas, with five siblings. A first-generation college student, she had a passion for math from a young age. She has taught full and part time at colleges since 1999 and is currently is a PhD biostatistician at the Clara D. Bloomfield Center for Leukemia Outcomes Research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also a longtime officer of the Caucus for Women in Statistics, serving for 10 years as secretary and, in 2018, becoming the first executive director.
Inaugural Florence Nightingale Day Inspires Students to Pursue Statistics, Data Science
The ASA and Caucus for Women in Statistics jointly hosted the first Florence Nightingale Day October 27, 2018, in Athens, Georgia; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Columbus, Ohio.
New Undergraduate Data Science Programs
The number of undergraduate statistics degrees has nearly doubled in the last four years—making it the fastest-growing STEM degree—and master’s degrees are also growing quickly. Last month in Amstat News, we profiled five new undergraduate data science programs. Here are a few more.