Column Contributors
Funding Opportunities
Increased Funding for Science:
What Does It Mean for Statistics? p. 35
This column highlights research activities that may be of interest to AsA
members. These brief articles include information about new research
DePARtmeNts
solicitations and the federal budget for statistics. Comments or sugges-
tions for future articles may be sent to
keith@amstat.org.
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IOLs Open Eyes to the Basics
Contributing Editor
Program-at-a-Glance
Keith Crank has a BS in mathematics education Washington, DC, Trivia
and an MS in mathematics from Michigan State
University and a PhD in statistics from Purdue
No Car, No Problem: Getting Around During JsM
University. Prior to joining the ASA, he was a program RTI supports Cox Race, Honors Namesake
officer at the National Science Foundation, primarily
in the probability program.
Practical Forum Brings Together Industry,
Academic statisticians
Crank
Science Policy News
Thinking Outside the Urn p. 37
JSM 2009:
This column is written to inform AsA members about what the AsA is doing to
Plan Now
promote the inclusion of statistics in policymaking and the funding of statistics
research. To suggest science policy topics for the AsA to address, contact AsA
Play Later
Director of science Policy steve Pierson at
pierson@amstat.org.
p. 42
Contributing Editor
Arlene Ash is a research professor at Boston University’s
School of Medicine. A past chair of the ASA’s
Subcommittee on Electoral Integrity, she has testified
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before the state legislature of Massachusetts on statis-
saying Goodbye to sOI
tical issues in elections and in a court case in Florida
in 2000.
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CAUsE Presence Holds at JMM ‘10
Ash
AsA Board Endorses Recommendations for
Contributing Editor
Graduate Programs in statistics
Philip B. Stark is a professor of statistics at the University
of California at Berkeley. He has helped develop meth-
ods for risk-limiting election audits, served on a post-
Washington, DC,
election audit standards panel for the California secre-
Trivia
tary of state, and conducted four risk-limiting audits in
p. 46
California—the only such audits to date.
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Master’s Notebook
A Learning Opportunity for Statisticians p. 41
memBeR News
This column is written for statisticians with master’s degrees and highlights areas
of employment that will benefit statisticians at the master’s level. Comments
60 People News
and suggestions should be sent to Keith Crank, AsA assistant director for
research and graduate education, at
keith@amstat.org.
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67 section News
Contributing Editor
80 Chapter News
81 Calendar of Events
Amarjot Kaur is director of clinical biostatistics at Merck
Research Laboratories. She earned her PhD in statistics
87 Professional Opportunities
from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, and was the
recipient of a national-level research fellowship.
cover design by Melissa Muko
Kaur
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