ASA Member News Archive
ASA Member News April 2015
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Davidian Appointed to AAAS Program Committee |
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ASA Past President Marie Davidian, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University, has been appointed to the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee. She will serve a three-year term with a dozen other interdisciplinary professionals who work in diverse areas of science, technology, and education. The committee is charged with establishing the theme and program tracks, reviewing proposals, and selecting symposia for the world's largest scientific meeting. Davidian is the only statistical scientist on the committee. She follows another former ASA president—Sallie Keller—whose three-year term ended in February. |
CSP Short Course & Tutorial Abstract Submission Now Open |
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Do you have a full-day short course, half-day short course, or two-hour tutorial you would like to teach at the 2016 Conference on Statistical Practice? Proposals must be submitted by May 12, 2015, and should touch on one of the following four broad themes: - Communication, Impact, and Career Development - Data Modeling and Analysis - Big Data Prediction and Analytics - Software, Programming, and Graphics |
ASA Past President Janet Norwood Passes |
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Janet L. Norwood, who served 13 years as U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics from May 1979 to December 1991, died March 27 in Austin, Texas. Norwood served three presidents—Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush—as the agency's leader. She rose to top of the agency after joining it in the early 1960s and retired from government service in 1991 after developing a reputation for "integrity, professionalism, and impartiality." Perhaps Norwood's most important contribution at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was the assertion of the agency's independence from both political interference and the rest of the Labor Department on all scientific matters, personnel decisions, and scientific content of all BLS releases, notes her bio on the agency's website. While she was leading the BLS, Norwood also served as the 84th ASA president in 1989. Read more. |
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