Warmest wishes to everyone in our ASA community and hopes for a peaceful, healthy, and productive 2024!
I am both honored and humbled to be your ASA president in 2024. One of my first tasks—and a great pleasure—was to select a theme for the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings, known to many as simply JSM. The theme I chose—Statistics and Data Science: Informing Public Policy and Countering Misinformation—reflects my passion for evidence-based public policy. In our era of mushrooming data with a simultaneous increase in pervasive misinformation, statistical science is essential …

Recently, a group involved in both JEDI and CAUSE came together to create a space to host resources for JEDI-informed statistics teaching: the JEDI-CAUSE website. Each entry is relevant to statistics and data science education and has a JEDI theme.

For the program officer Q&A this month, we have questions and responses from both Cheryl Eavey of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate and Yulia Gel of the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the NSF Directorate for Physical and Mathematical Sciences. The awardee responses are from Dan Kowal of Rice University, who won an award from the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.

The International Prize in Statistics—one of the highest honors in statistics—is awarded every two years to an individual or team for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology, and human welfare.

The International Conference on Data Science aimed to provide an overview of state-of-the-art research in statistical learning and data science, add diverse voices to the global debate in this area, and enrich the interdisciplinary dialogue between theory and application.