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Statisticians in the News

News agencies across the globe are reporting on statistics, on important developments in the fields of statistical application and how statisticians are contributing in the areas of scientific advancement, discovery and innovation. The following are a small sampling of these articles:

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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?
  
  
• 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

• 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.
  
  
• 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

• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Science Unbound Recognizes Outstanding Young Investigators
  
  
• ASA Fellow David Allison Appointed to the VIVUS Qnexa Scientific Advisory Board
  
  
• Teacher Perceptions and Attitudes About Teaching Statistics in P-12 Education
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 'Jesus film scholars didn't backtrack'
  
  
• 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."