ASA Member News Archive

Join the ASA Delegation to Ecuador

The ASA is organizing two international exchange trips in 2016. The first is to Ecuador in May, and the second is to South Africa in September. President-elect Jessica Utts will be co-leading the trip to Ecuador with ASA Vice President Jim Rosenberger. Participants will visit universities and government organizations in Quito and travel to Yachay, known as the "City of Knowledge," to visit Ecuador's first technical research university, Yachay Tech. They'll also visit several cultural sites in Ecuador. Interested? Learn more!

If you have questions regarding the delegation, contact the program representative at Professionals Abroad at (877) 298-9677.

Get Ready to Vote in the 2016 ASA Election

The 2016 ASA election opens March 15 at 12:01 a.m. EST and closes May 1 at 11:59 p.m. PST. To prepare, visit amstat.org and check the following:

• Membership expiration. If your membership expires at the time we are launching the election, you will not receive a ballot.
• Section membership. To vote for section officers, you must be a member of that section.
• Email address. All ballots are delivered via email. If the email you have on file at the ASA is incorrect, you will not receive your ballot. This year, you can vote on your computer, smartphone, or other electronic device.
• Whitelist. Add support@votenet.com to your email safe list. This action will ensure the proper delivery of key election information. Instructions for whitelisting can be found at blog.aweber.com/how-to-whitelist-us.

ASA Congratulates 2015 AAAS Fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its 2015 fellows November 27. The ASA congratulates the following 10 fellows who are ASA members: Michael P. Cohen, American Institutes for Research; Bruce A. Craig, Purdue University; Thomas A. DiPrete, Columbia University; Patricia A. Jacobs, Naval Postgraduate School; Alan F. Karr, RTI International; Stephen Portnoy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; James M. Robins, Harvard University; Daniel O. Stram, University of Southern California; Chih-Ling Tsai, University of California, Davis; and Alyson G. Wilson, North Carolina State University.

CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL PRACTICE  San Diego, CA February 18–20 Early Registration

JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS  Chicago, IL July 30–August 4 Submit Abstracts

ASA BIOPHARMACEUTICAL SECTION REGULATORY-INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP Washington, DC September 28–30

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL TRIALS 
Philadelphia, PA
April 13

WOMEN IN STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE  Charlotte, NC October 20–22

QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, EVALUATION, AND TESTING  Miami, FL November 9–13

MORE EVENTS

ASA Fellow John Abowd Named to Lead Census Bureau Research and Methodology Directorate

Surface Transportation Bill Flat Funds Bureau of Transportation Statistics but Strengthens Autonomy

FY16 Omnibus Bill Has Increases for Budgets of NIH, NSF, BEA, BLS, Census, NCES, EIA, and NCHS. See FY16 Statistical Agency Budget Developments and FY16 NSF and NIH Budget Developments

ASA Seeking Science Policy Fellow

2020 Decennial Census: A New Design for the 21st Century (December Amstat News)

STEM Funding Streams Expanded in NCLB Rewrite (Education Week)

New NSF BIGDATA Solicitation Is Out; Applications Due February 9

See the many recent letters the ASA has signed or sent.

Read more ASA Science Policy

This is Statistics profiles Rayid Ghani, the Obama campaign's data chief, and Georgetown professor Kimberly Sellers. Follow This is Statistics on Facebook and Twitter.

Stats.org Features Four New Articles for Journalists and Statisticans

Nominate a Colleague for the Inaugural ASA Mentoring Award
Nomination deadline March 1.

ASA Seeks 2016 Educational Ambassadors
Applicants must be Cuban or Nigerian nationals.

Participate in JSM 2016
Submit paper, poster, and speed session abstracts through February 1.

New Book Series Call for Authors: ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Societies

New Issue of Statistics Teacher Network (STN) Online

New Issue of News from The World of Statistics Online

2016 Internship Listings for Students Now Online
Does your organization have an internship available? List your openings in our annual online listing.

2016 AAAS Annual Meeting to Include Seven Statistics Sessions

Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics Accepting Proposals
Deadline February 1.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Offers Research Fellow Program in Cooperation with ASA
Deadline February 8.

SAS and INFORMS Analytics Section Sponsor Travel Scholarship