Emory University hosted the Dionne Price Memorial Lecture to honor their distinguished alumna, the first African American female ASA president, featuring keynote speaker F. DuBois Bowman and discussions about inclusive leadership in statistics.
The ASA is asking the government not to include scientific and statistical jobs in a new rule that could make it easier to fire federal workers, saying these roles should stay separate from politics so the public can trust the data and decisions based on it.
The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences 2026 Mathematical Sciences Survey will collect enrollment data from US math and statistics departments nationwide, continuing a five-decade tradition of tracking educational trends to help institutions understand student patterns and secure academic resources.
The July issue of JSDSE features an interview with Jim Albert about Bayesian teaching methods, research on AI’s limitations in statistical writing instruction, and innovative classroom data sets that include Loch Ness Monster sightings and steel mill operations data.