ASA Headlines

• ASA Board Endorses Statistics Education Graduate Programs.
• ASA Names Journal Editors
• ASA Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences

JSM 2009 Online Registration Open

Online Registration is now open for the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, taking place August 1-6, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

• Register Online
• PDF Registration Form & PDF Registration Book
• Register for the JSM Placement Service

ASA Members Named SIAM Fellows

Sixteen ASA members were among the 183 individuals named as Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows for their key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science.. The ASA members named SIAM fellows are: Douglas N. Arnold, University of Minnesota; H. Thomas Banks, NC State; Peter J. Bickel, UCAL Berkeley; Murray Rosenblatt, UCAL San Diego; G. W. Stewart, UMD, College Park; Gilbert Strang, MIT; Hans G. Kaper, Argonne National Lab., Ret’d; Tasso J. Kaper, BU; Rene A. Carmona, Princeton; Alexandre J. Chorin, UCAL Berkeley; David Leigh Donoho, Stanford; Avner Friedman; OSU; Michael J. Todd, Cornell; Srinivasa R.S. Varadhan, NYU; Grace Wahba, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Michael S. Waterman, USC; Philippe Tondeur, Univ. of IL, Urbana-Champaign. The complete list of newly elected members is available here.

ASA Endorses Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency

At its recent meeting, the ASA Board of Directors voted to endorse Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency (P&P), Fourth Edition. The publication is a project of the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT), a standing unit of the National Academy of Sciences, which issued the first edition in 1992. Read the release...

Making Sense of Statistical Studies

Are hot dogs unhealthy? What percent of people wear their seat belts when driving? How are peoples' heights and foot lengths related? These are just a few examples of the types of questions students will explore in Making Sense of Statistical Studies (MSSS).

The Student Module consists of 15 hands-on investigations that provide students with valuable experience in designing and analyzing statistical studies. It is written for an upper middle-school or high-school audience having some background in exploratory data analysis and basic probability.

The Teacher's Module includes supporting resources to help teachers use MSSS effectively in their classrooms, as well as all the pages from the Student Module.

To order Making Sense of Statistical Studies or download a free investigation from the module, visit www.amstat.org/education/msss.

Winner of Free ASA Membership

Congratulations to Antonio Cappiello, winner of the April drawing for FREE ASA membership.

Reminder: 2009 ASA Election of Officers

You have until midnight on May 15, 2009 to make your vote for the 2009 election of officers!

• A list of candidates for offices can be found here
• Candidate biographies can be found here

To cast your vote find your member number and your ballot control number from the ballot sent to you then click here

(Notice: To ensure you receive your ballot and other information about the ASA election, please set your spam-blocking filters to allow emails containing “@amstat.org).