This month, the ASA President Dionne Price shares her thoughts on how to make the most out of the opportunities that await attendees at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Lucy Tu—a junior studying sociology, neuroscience, and the history of science at Harvard University—will spend 10 weeks as a science journalist with Scientific American this summer as the ASA’s 2023 AAAS Mass Media Fellow.

ASA President Dionne Price welcomes your nominations to the Statistics and Data Science Hall of Fame.

The December deal to fund the US government for the current fiscal year included an increase of 14% for the National Science Foundation and 6% for the National Institutes of Health, along with double-digit percent increases for several statistical agencies. Released in March, the president’s requested budget for fiscal year 2024 (FY24) also has favorable increases for the agencies but will face the new Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, where there is a desire to reduce federal government spending to FY22 levels.

The three-day workshop in Rockville, Maryland, will have presentations and short courses.