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November 2009

• The wizards behind those amazing World Series statistics



• Modeling Your Way To Better Campaign Results



• New Research on Spanking Might Need a Time Out



• Obama Names Justice Statistics Nominee

October 2009

• AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling
  See also: How temperature data was analyzed



• Producer criticizes NASS reporting



• Science for Science Writers
  (Scroll down to "In election controversies..")



• Taleb: The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics



• New Math – New Yorker Panel



• Anti-smoking laws reduce heart attacks, report finds



• The Count: A Very Unlucky Nats Fan



• Georgia Southern Faculty Member Karl Peace, Ph.D. Honored On U.S. House Floor



• New Research on Spanking Might Need a Time Out



• Get ready for Statistics Day number one



• Opportunities are Adding up for Statisticians



• National Statistics Day aims to enlighten us



• Oct. 22 lecture to explain statistical method for ecology research



• UMass gains $1M NIH grant for exercise study



• $2M in grants for forensic science study



• Number Crunchers



• 2010 Census: Politics Counts, Especially in Wake of Acorn Scandal



• Celebrate the history of statistics: Drink a Guiness



• Doing the Math: Careers in Statistics



• BYU statistics professor receives national honor



• Politics are threatening to complicate census



• Nate Silver challenges climate change skeptics over temperature cherry-picking



• Statistician Nate Silver believes Maine gay marriage ban will fail

September 2009

• Michael P. O'Brien Joins the Ranks of Leading Professionals



• Statistician Introduces Maximum Weight Limit Calculation



• Odds Are, Stunning Coincidences Can Be Expected



• Hurricanes Up In Number, Not Strength



• Billionaire SAS co-founder keeps on coding



• Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest



• How Stanford professor is righting statistical wrongs



• Uncertain Future Predicted For Forests



• Bio-Math seminar- statistics



• Should Companies Worry About Analytics Skills Shortage?



• Road to be named after Prof. C.R. Rao



• Sam L. Savage on "The Flaw of Averages"—Why we underestimate risk in the face of certainty



• Edmunds.com Tallies "Cash for Clunkers" Numbers; Uncovers Another Discrepancy



• U.S. government paid teenagers to answer questionnaire about sexual behaviour



• Thoroughly Modern Melanie



• Edmunds.com Tallies "Cash for Clunkers" Numbers; Uncovers Another Discrepancy



• Cool, Wet Weather Creating Problems in Soybean Fields

August 2009

• Videos that Play with Numbers, Dangerously



• Jobs abound for statistics majors



• Childhood diabetes 'more likely in winter'



• Taiwan's orders from China rise for first time in a year



• Use free statistics to boost business



• Numbers, Numbers, Numbers



• Edward Tufte's On The Very Very Very Bad Design Of Corporate Web Sites



• Finalists named in UGA provost search



• Syracuse U. College of Arts and Sciences has announced new department chairs and program directors



• The Deming Cycle: an application to web design



• Statistics: desired and feared?



• Your statistics are turning me on



• People in the News – Rafael Irizarry



• Baseball by the numbers



• Today's Sexy Job: Statistician



• Math Nerds Getting Richer, Sexier



• For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics

July 2009

• Remembering Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis



• Nate Silver challenges climate change skeptics over temperature cherry-picking



• Maybe Children Aren’t Getting Fatter



• The Slimming Figures of Childhood Obesity



• Encounter with Number Vortex Earns Econometrics Prize



• The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)
  more details: http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/



• Statistical Tests Suggestive of Fraud in Iran's Election



• Baseball’s Winning Glue Guys



• Palo Alto VA scientist wins presidential award



• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071300740.html



• Prominent Bioinformatics Expert To Join Harvard School Of Public Health Faculty And Become Chair Of Dana-Farber Department Of Biostatistics



• NCTM President-Elect Shaughnessy and Four Board Members Begin Terms



• Researchers Say They Can Guess Your SSN



• Obese Account for Greatest Jump in Healthcare Spending



• Study Shows What Everyone Knew Already



• This stats spat will run and run (probably)



• Awards for Distinguished Service to the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries



• The Lasting Political Legacies Of Robert McNamara

June 2009

• New book applies Lean Six Sigma to all business areas



• New Czech premier is a statistically significant man



• Tufte's Invisible Yet Ubiquitous Influence



• Stefanski named Drexel Professor at NC State



• The New Ombudsman of U.K. Stats



• This U.K. Sheriff Cites Officials for Serious Statistical Violations



• Hurricane predictions more math than science

May 2009

• From Stats-Man to Editor



• James Nwoye Adichie: Nigeria's first professor of statistics



• Memorization doesn’t teach problem-solving skills



• Top Ky. statistician to leave state data center



• Stats funds to make light polls shine



• HSE announces appointment of new Chief Statistician



• Sampling ruled out in 2010 census



• Scientist wins highest award, will speak in D.C



• Using Statistics to Drive Sound Policy



• A Pandemic of Confusion About Flu's Death Rates



• Western Illinois Farmers Having Trouble Planting Corn



• Stats Whiz Takes Crack at Explaining Why Americans Are Driving Less



• 34th Annual Summer Institute of Applied Statistics at BYU June 17-19



• OSU scientist wins top statistics prize



• YSPH Student Receives Cox Scholarship for Women in Statistics



• Statistician Thinks 2010 Census Could Benefit Kentucky



• Malthouse Receives Walder Award for Research Excellence



• Farewell Tom Petska

April 2009

• Dr. Robert F. Engle to Receive Hofstra University's Presidential Medal



• Expert Tip Sheet: Swine Flu: Statistical Model Predicts Spread in U.S.



• Climate Research That Might Not Help



• Statistical analysis could yield new drug target for MS



• Overpaying mortgages 'presents an opportunity'



• Grading Facebook's Grades Link



• Khinkis To Serve As Interim Arts & Sciences Dean



• Red State, Blue State



• Defining Moment: British scientists conduct the first randomized clinical trial, 1948



• Statistician doubts Manitoba jobless figure



• Statistician Jan Fischer to be new Czech prime minister



• Peter C.B. Phillips: 04-07-09 Economist of the Day



• ASTM International Statistics Committee Recognizes Stephen Luko with Award of Merit



• U.S. Still Struggling With Infant Mortality



• Statistician has numbers in new book to prove how moving Inge back to 3B will help Tigers



• Nebraska Professor Talks Sex Appeal Science With Oprah



• Carnegie Mellon statistics student honored for technique to aid in brain imaging



• Professor Chris P. Tsokos Elected New IFNA President



• Bandeen-Roche Installed as Hurley and Dorrier Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics



• Transportation and Education Depts., Census Bureau, Get Key Nominees



• Obama picks survey expert to lead Census Bureau

March 2009

• Bayes and Business Intelligence, Part 3 An Interview with Brad Efron of Stanford
  
  
• Crisis cuts data budget
  
  
• Dendreon Disclosure May Endanger Provenge Study



• Professor Chris P. Tsokos elected new IFNA president



• Harvard Statistician To Receive Inaugural Award



• Crash Calculations



• The Odds When Birds, Subs and Satellites Collide



• The sinister world of statistics

February 2009

• E-voting security fixes will get us nowhere without stats



• Ace statistician goes four-for-six with Oscar picks



• StatsCan, Canada Post set example



• Oscar Predictions You Can Bet On!



• Nate Silver predicts an Oscar upset



• Darwin: The reluctant mathematician



• Fat Tail



• Thomas D. Murphy Receives ASTM International Frank W. Reinhart Award

January 2009

• Measuring Race in Multicultural America the Focus of Pitt Lecture



• What should an introduction to statistics be like?



• Life is filled with patterned uncertainties



• Researchers identify 4 genetic hotspots associated with psoriasis



• Fixing the Census



• Does Bran Make the Man? What Statistics Really Tell Us



• Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University



• Studying Stats



• Nobel Laureate Robert Engle and Peter Westfall comment on Nassim Taleb’s “Black Swan



• Software Called R Empowers Data Users



• Friday Fun: How Does Your Job Compare?



• Today in History (Jan. 8)



• STATKING Consulting Announces Hiring of Hussein Al-Khalidi, PhD as Director of Biostatistics



• Thomas C. Stanek, Jr., Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive, Professional and Entrepreneurial Registry



• Bayes and Business Intelligence, Part 1



• Other Voices: Crisis focus is on panic solutions, ignoring adequate demand

December 2008

• Bandeen-Roche Named Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics
  
  
• Man Behind the Creative Class Stats Shares Ideas on Detroit

November 2008

• National Institute of Statistical Sciences Names Three New People to Its Board of Trustees
  
  
• Stan Young Speaking at November Meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of American Statistical Association
  
  
• Mayo Clinic Study Finds Risk Assessment Tool Not Reliable Predictor for Some Women at High Risk of Breast Cancer
  
  
• Numbers Never Lie
  
  
• Ecology angle for new Chair of Statistics
  
  
• FiveThirtyEight.com's Final: Obama 349, McCain 189
  
  
• Schools hire statistician to analyze data, scores
  
  
• Odds of single vote deciding election: 1 in 60M
  
  
• Becker takes reins at GSU
  
  
  

October 2008

• Poll analysis sites put new spin on statistics
  
  
• Statistician Nate Silver explains the presidential polls
  
  
• Two HSPH Professors Honored with Election to Institute of Medicine for their Scientific Contributions
  
  
• Recommendations Received for Georgia State Presidency
  
  
• John McCain's Big Bailout Blunder
  
  
• Alex Rodriguez, Clutch Hitter
  
  
• Wisconsin to produce largest wheat harvest yet
  
  
• Long sick leave for colds signals poor health later: study
  
  
  

September 2008

• Oxford Statistician Tells Congress He Is No Pharma Pawn
  
  
• Statistics Smackdown: Experts Duel Over Vytorin Cancer Data
  
  
• Linton author writes another book, donates copy to library
  
  
• Stirring Things Up At Statscan
  
  
• Bullet analysis casts doubt on lone gunman in JFK assassination
  
  
• Return of Serve (and Volley)?
  
  

August 2008

• U.S. and China tie for Olympic glory, according to statistician
  
  
• Only Your Cardiologist Knows For Sure?
  
  
• Who Won the Olympics Forecasting Competition?
  ASA members mentioned in this Wall Street Journal blog entry.
  
  
• Another Storm Brewing For Vytorin
  
  
• Website Helps Students Rate Professors
  
  
• Many Teens Getting Free Alcohol From Adults
  
  
• Conspiracy's Days Are Numbered: Aggies Are On The JFK Case
  
  
• Study of JFK assassination bullets honored
  
  
• Titanic's Been Unsinkable...Until Dark Knight?
  
  
• UVU names statistician to top administrative post
  
  
• Warm, Rainy Weather Helps Illinois Crops
  
  
• The science of doping
  
  

July 2008

• NIH's Grant Awards System Is Prone to Bias, Report Says
  
  
• In M.L.B. Study, 257 Broken Bats . . . and Counting
  
  
• UBC experts do the math on Open winner
  
  
• Exclusive Interview: An M.I.T. And A Yale Professors' Cure For The Electoral College
  
  
• Two Iowa State faculty to be named American Statistical Association fellows
  
  
• A&M professors win national award
  
  
• Lies, Damned Lies And…
  Coverage of JSM sessions
  
  
• Juiced: Guilt by Graph?
  Newsweek blog talks about JSM sessions
  
  
• Katherine Monti Elected to the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  
  
• Statistician to tackle environmental pollution
  
  
• Mathematician Co-Authored Guide to Winning at Blackjack
  
  
• UAMS’ Roberson Selected National Institutes of Health Panel
  
  
• Report: Cotton acreage down nationally
  
  
  

June 2008

• Schafer Announces Clark as Nass Administrator
  
  
• Many Teens Getting Free Alcohol From Adults
  
  
• Hawaii heath official gets national award
  
  
• Predicting Where You'll Go and What You'll Like
  
  
• Dr. George named a fellow of the American Statistical Association
  
  
• The Pentagon's Latest Recruits: Professors
  
  
• Signifying Little
  
  
• ADA: VA Trial Assertion on Rosiglitazone (Avandia) Heart Safety Called Problematic
  
  
• Covering the Drug Policy Dilemma: Prudence for Patients vs. Risky Cures
  
  
• SAS Announces American Statistical Association Fellows
  
  
• Conference to attract statistics experts
  
  
• Minority workers face "glass door" barrier
  
  
• Harpoon: Profiling a global warming ‘denier'
  
  

May 2008

• Prof. Jon Cryer '61 Authors Second Edition of Time Series Analysis: With Applications in R
  
  
• Smith College People News: Katherine T. Halvorsen
  
  
• Zhao Named Recipient of 2008 Mortimer Spiegelman Award
  
  
• Dr. Irwin Kellner Joins Dowling College as Distinguished Scholar of Economics
  
  
• Why Benetech?
  Read more about the Benetech Human Rights Program's project helping the Guatemalan National Police Archive on PBS' 'Frontline.'
  
  
• Dr. George named a fellow of the American Statistical Association
  
  
• Karol Krotki Named American Statistical Association Fellow
  
  
• IU statistics professor earns international award
  
  
• Statistician, educator and author named honorary degree recipient
  
  
• 72 New Members Chosen by the National Academy of Sciences
  Statistician Elizabeth Thompson among the honorees.
  
  
• Dr. F.N. Kautzmann III Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who Executive, Professional & Entrepreneurial Registry
  
  
• Why U.S. Infants Die Too Often
  
  
• AAPOR Announces Awards for Public Opinion Research Innovation and Policy Impact, Influential Book, Student Paper
  
  
• The Lady With the Lamp

April 2008

• Terrorism Study Drops a Bombshell on Boise
  
  
• PAREXEL Appoints Leading Biostatistician Dr. Imogene Grimes to Vice President of Data Sciences Strategic Services
  
  
• KePRO Appoints Two New IT Vice Presidents
  
  
• Makuch Honored as Distinguished Alumni of University of Connecticut’s Mathematics Department
  
  
• RAND Corporation Names Daniel McCaffrey as PNC Chair in Policy Analysis
  
  
• ASA Chicago Chapter Names 2008 Statistician of the Year
  
  
• How To Use W Edwards Deming
  
  
• Love baseball? Sabermetrics may be for you
  
  
• Mohsen Pourahmadi, John Skowronski awarded 2008 Presidential Research Professorships
  
  
• Study: Gender, other factors guide preemies' survival
  
  
• Joint Venture Plans to Expand Project Euclid
  
  
• Essay: Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It
  
  
• Older Americans Are More Socially Engaged Than Many People May Think
  
  
• The Noisy Game of Baseball
  
  
• The Rise & Fall of Breast Cancer
  
  
• UMBC Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards Ceremony
  
  
• De Veaux Named 2008 Statistician of the Year
  
  
• Aberdeen Four Horsemen made movie '21' possible
  
  
• The Use -- and Misuse -- of Statistics: How and Why Numbers Are So Easily Manipulated
  
  
• Stats Student Takes a Bracket Study

 

March 2008

• Vulnerable to terror: NYC, New Orleans and . . . Boise?
  
  
• The Numbers Behind the "The Lost Tomb of Jesus"
  
  
• Editorial: Statistics and "The Lost Tomb of Jesus
  
  
• Taleb Outsells Greenspan as Black Swan Gives Worst Turbulence
  
  
• Genomics: Whither Goest Thou?
  
  
• Statistics professor receives award for research and teaching excellence
  
  
• HIV/AIDS Sabbatical Summary
  
  
• Better audits are sought for voting
  
  
• Panel Shoots Down Wider Ballistics Database
  
  
• Hero going to be earning Zero
  
  
• Pre-eminent statistician puts knowledge to use at ASU
  
  
• Dr. David Banks isKey Presenter at Troy University’s Computer Science Colloquium on Information Technology
  
  
• Global warming pioneer's job threatened

February 2008

• The Forensic Humanitarian
  
  
• Tucson: pretty good place to be in a terror strike
  
  
• 2 faculty named Sloan fellows
  
  
• Swarthmore College Statistician Uses Data to Analyze Major League Baseball Managers; Uses Stats to Describe Managers as They Do Players
  
  
• They wrote the first blackjack book, but never cashed in
  
  
• They invented basic strategy
  
  
• AGB Neilsen Makes Calculation Error
  AGB Neilsen has admitted that it made a mistake and it says that from now on it will hire a statistician to vet data on a daily basis.
  
  
• Steps From Fenway, a Statistician Takes a Swing at the Yankees
  
  
• Retired city statistician Don Vest had all the numbers
  
  
• Black Swans swim against current
  
  
• Jantzi replaces Knopf at USDA
  
  
• A few less surveys, a few more poems
  
  
• Making statistics not just palatable, but delicious
  
  
• Is Value Line showing the door to its hidden genius?
  Commentary: Statistician Sam Eisenstadt has been dropped from the board
  
  
• Black Swans swim against current
  
  
• A few less surveys, a few more poems
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon Professor William Eddy Receives
  First John C. Warner Professorship of Statistics
  
  
• A statistician's guide to romance
• Veteran Suicides: How We Got The Numbers
  How The CBS News Investigative Unit Got The Statistics And The Story
  
  
• A human rights statistician finds truth in numbers
  
  
• Interview with Mohamed Ali on violence-related mortality among Iraqi civilians
  
  
• Linear Models in Statistics 2nd Edition' is the Essential Introduction to the Theory and Application of Linear Models
  
  

January 2008

• Statistician's new method will test election outcomes
  
  
• Francis X. Diebold: Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics
  
  
• Case Western Reserve School of Medicine Professor receives Genetics Education Excellence Award
  
  
• Data mining has many uses: professor
  
  
• Pesticides? Well, they're not so bad
  
  
• Study shows eBay buyers save billions of dollars
  
  
• Trustees name three faculty Distinguished Professors
  
  
• Meld of grace, athletics, dreams keeps ice skating fans on edge
  
  
• New computer programme for health statistics
  
  
• Google lets scientists share data
  
  
• Africa: ECA Chief Receives African Statistics Award
  
  
• Women Becoming More Like Men In Their Drinking Habits
  
  
• Benefits trump risks of Entereg bowel drug - panel
  
  
• CourseAdvisor Increases Data Analysis Capabilities:
  Former BBN Technologies Statistician Brings Extensive Experience Analyzing and Modeling Customer Data and Interactions
  
  
• Albert Bowker, innovative UC Berkeley chancellor during 1970s, dies at age 88
  
  
• Edward Clark Bryant, Westat Co-founder, dies at 92
  
  
• Daniel J. Corrigan dies at 69
  
  
• Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It
  
  
• You're safer than you think, statistics expert says
  
  
• Ex-IC chief lodges ‘scapegoat’ claim
  
  
• Strategic market research partner to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
  industries strengthens specialist expertise
  
  
• Prof. Elaine Allen Appointed Chair Of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
  Research Committee
  
  
• Cut off francophone life-support: statistician
  Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
  For the past decade, statistician Charles Castonguay has been predicting the demise of
  francophone communities outside Quebec.
  
  
• UC Santa Cruz's 'cookie monster' professor teaches statistics with chocolate chips
  When it comes to keeping students engaged in learning statistics, Herbie Lee is one smart cookie.

December 2007

• Pessimism about French is premature
  
  
• Despite Objections, Abortion Leading to Rise in Breast Cancer Cases
  
  
• Cardinal Numbers: Small Steps for the Card

November 2007

• Citizen Watchdog: Some studies are sturdier than others
  
  
• Oral Cholera Vaccine Found Highly Effective
  
  
• STATKING opens Creve Coeur office
  
  
• Obituary: John Mandel; Statistician Received Many Awards
  
  
• Aim: Bring end to Type 1 diabetes
  
  
• Bowdoin Economist Asks: Did Welfare Reform Work?
  
  
• Fog, Clouds Hamper Search For Missing Professor
  
  
• Long time University of Oregon professor missing
  
  
• Aspiring poet turned statistician counts on reason over rhyme
  
  
• Gary Becker, ASA Fellow, will receive highest civilian honor: Presidential Medal of Freedom

October 2007

• Statistician Refutes UN-Planned Parenthood Study on Illegal Abortions
  
  
• The Father of Government Mapmaking: Henry Gannett
  
  
• Obituary: Gary A. Chase, PhD
  
  
• Statistician Will Visit Ithaca College to Talk About the Fun Side of his Profession
  
  
• P. George Benson Is Installed As The 21st President of College of Charleston
  
  
• McCutcheon to help guide 2008 election exit polling
  
  
• Talk today on the roles statisticians play in U.S. Census
  
  
• Icing Kicker: New Tactic Has Drawn Double Take
  ASA member Scott Berry interviewed for this article.
  
  
• Monetary Policy under Uncertainty
  
  
• P. George Benson Is Installed As The 21st President of College of Charleston
  
  
• Intermediate Probability: A Computational Approach Is Ideal For Senior Undergraduate And Graduate Students Of Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Finance, Insurance, And Computer Science, As Well As Researchers And Professional Statisticians Working In These Fields.
  
  
• Getting To the Starting Line
  
  
• Six JHU Researchers Elected To Institute Of Medicine
  
  
• Ballot query: To bullet, or not to bullet?
  
  
• Thinking about Sports and Economics
  
  
• Global warming could save lives: skeptic
  
  
• Super Crunchers: Has statistical analysis usurped human intuiton?

September 2007

• Koskinen, Piva Presented with University Medals
  
  
• Striking Out Pythagoras
  
  
• Global Warming Inaction More Costly Than Solutions?
  
  
• U.S. Coast Guard calls off search for missing kayaker
  
  
• Statistics Alumnus Establishes Two Professorships at NC State
  
  
• SFU professor goes missing on kayaking trip
  
  
• The rush to publish: a problem?
  Suggestions include better stats, listing a study's limitations -- even waiting to publish till a finding's repeated.
  
  
• Scientists do the numbers
  Donald Berry quoted in LA Times article.
  
  
• A ten-step guide to Deming and Goldratt
  
  
• RTI International Statistician Carla Bann Named Associate Editor for Journal on Quality of Life
  
  
• UC Davis statistician analyzes validity of paranormal predictions
  
  
• After the Petraeus/Crocker Hearings: Four Issues for Congress
  
  
• Is it hot in here?
  A statistician argues that global warming isn't worth all the fuss.
  
  
• ASA President-elect Sally Morton to Serve on Committee on National Statistics

August 2007

• South Africa: Painting a Healthier Democracy by Numbers
  
  
• Mondal Appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clarkson University
  
  
• Wharton's Schmittlein named new MIT Sloan dean
  
  
• Sullivan Shares Statistics Knowledge with Students and Instructors
  
  
• Data award named for statistician Bob Schmitt
  
  
• Biostatistics methodology yields an objective Tour de France ranking
  
  
• Individualizing Patient Treatment Topic Of Lecture By UAB's Norwood Award Winner
  
  
• Golf: Major gaining significance
  The above article quotes Scott Berry, who was interviewed by the writer at JSM.
  
  
• PPD Names Senior Vice President of Global Biostatistics and Data Management
  
  
• Teacher's Advice to Parents: Make Math Education a Top Priority for Teens this School Year
  
  
• It's tough to find a Bronco in Canton
  Harvard statistician Carl N. Morris is quoted.

July 2007

• A green business tipping point?
  Deming's total quality management gets a mention in this CNNMoney article
  
  
• National Injury Studies Institute Retains Philip Giorgio as Chief Statistical Analyst
  
  
• NSO urges cooperation for Popcen
  Statistician urges cooperation with Phillipine census beginning 7/31.
  
  
• Global Cooler
  A review of Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg
  
  
• Statistics gurus meet in Salt Lake to harness information
  Coverage of JSM in Salt Lake Tribune
  
  
• It's Tough Using Data To Blow the Whistle On Fixing Games
  ASA member Hal Stern is quoted in Carl Bialek's "The Numbers Guy" column
  
  
• Modify statistical education-Prof Nsowah-Nuamah
  
  
• Census to go ahead with new technological equipment
  
  
• Nomination for chair of the new statistics board:Sir Michael Scholar
  
  
• Zhang Receives Connecticut Chapter of the American Statistical Association’s 2007 Honor a Statistician Award
  
  
• New Algorithm Matches Tumor Cells to Best Anticancer Treatments
  
  
• RTI International's Gertrude M. Cox Award Given to Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Professor
  
  
• Statisticians to crunch baseball numbers
  
  
• Leading Social Scientists Say Illinois Eyewitness Identification Study Is Unreliable; Blue-Ribbon Panel of Experts Calls for More - and Better - Research of Important Law Enforcement Practices
  
  
• Big Pharma’s bitter pill
• WSU professor loved being in wood shop
  Obituary for John M. Mattila, a past president of the Detroit chapter of the American Statistical Association
  
  
• Karol Krotki Chosen President-Elect of Washington Statistical Society

June 2007

• Indian Prime Minister to inaugurate first Statistics Day
  
  
• Babson’s Elaine Allen And George Recck To Lead Analytics And Fantasy Baseball Webcast
  
  
• Statistics Department Prepares for Workshop
  
  
• Farmers hurt by summer drought
  Natalia Sanchez, a statistician at the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, is featured in article.
  
  
• Science Unbound Recognizes Outstanding Young Investigators
  
  
• ASA Fellow David Allison Appointed to the VIVUS Qnexa Scientific Advisory Board
  
  
• Finalist has science history
  Dr. Mark Becker, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of South Carolina, is finalist for the University of Iowa presidency.
  
  
• Teacher Perceptions and Attitudes About Teaching Statistics in P-12 Education
  
  
• Bowers, Efron receive science medal
  
  
• New Jersey: Coalition Introduces Groundbreaking Election Reform Legislation
  Statisticians participated in formulating legislation.
  
  

May 2007

• AAAS Seminar Explores How Statistics Can Be Used to Support Human Rights
  
  
• Bower, Efron win National Medal of Science
  
  
• Bullet Evidence Challenges Findings In JFK Assassination
  Texas A&M Statistics Professor Cliff Spiegelman is part of a team whose findings show that evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed.
  
  
• M-Factor Establishes Marketing Science Council with Academic Leaders Rao, Rossi, and Bronnenberg
  
  
• Parsing the NBA’s Study on Refs and Race
  
  
• Statistics Alumnus Establishes Two Professorships at NC State
  
  
• 'Jesus film scholars didn't backtrack'
  
  
• Abt Associates' Richard A. Kulka Elected President-elect of American Association for Public Opinion Research
  
  
• Intelligent Designs
  When information needs to be communicated, Edward Tufte demands both truth and beauty.
  
  
• Seid M. Zekavat's New Book is a Critical Analysis of the Conflict between America and Islamic States
  May 1, 2007
  
  
• Dr. Gene Sprechini Honored with Top Teaching Award
  
  

April 2007

• William Meeker, former Technometrics editor, wins American Society for Quality prize.
  William Meeker, Distinguished Professor of liberal arts and sciences and professor of statistics, considers himself to be a statistician first and foremost. So why is the American Society for Quality honoring him?
  
  
• Daniel Weiner, past president of the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of ASA, promoted to chief technology officer at Pharsight
  
  
• S.R.S. Varadhan awarded 2007 Abel Prize
  The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2007 to
  S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York. He receives the
  prize for “his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in  particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations”.
  
  
• Dr. Edward Wegman, ASA board member, is the subject of an article on global warming.
  
  
• Papers show Census role in WWII camps"The issue is how ethical is it to use the Census to target people," says William Seltzer, a statistician at Fordham University in New York who co-wrote the report with Margo Anderson, professor of history and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sharing the information was not illegal, he says, but "it was ethically questionable."