Column Contributors
Funding Opportunities
Biostatistics Funding: Opportunities from NIH p. 29
this column highlights research activities that may be of interest to AsA
members. these brief articles include information about new research
solicitations and the federal budget for statistics. Comments or sugges-
tions for future articles may be sent to
keith@amstat.org.
DePARtmeNts
Contributing Editor
Keith Crank has a BS in mathematics education
and an MS in mathematics from Michigan State 38 Education
University and a PhD in statistics from Purdue
University. Prior to joining the ASA as research and
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graduate education manager, he was a program
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officer at the National Science Foundation, primar-
ily in the probability program.
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Crank
Science Policy News
Statistics in Defense and National Security: Lessons in Outreach to
Policymakers p. 31
this column is written to inform AsA members about what the AsA is doing to
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
Director of science Policy steve Pierson at
pierson@amstat.org.
Contributing Editors
Alyson Wilson has been an associate professor of sta-
tistics at Iowa State University since 2008. She moved to
ISU after nine years in the statistical sciences group at
Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she developed
and applied methodology to assess the reliability of
conventional and nuclear weapons.
wilson
Opportunities Abound for
Nancy Spruill is the director of acquisition resources and
Statisticians in Tech Support
analysis for the undersecretary of defense for acquisi-
tion at Technology & Logistics. A Fellow of the American
p. 35
Statistical Association, her honors and awards include
the Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, the
Hammer Award, and the Presidential Rank Award.
spruill
memBeR News
Master’s Notebook
55 People News
Opportunities Abound for Statisticians in Tech Support p. 35
57 Award Deadlines and Information
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
61 Committee News
and suggestions should be sent to Keith Crank, AsA research and graduate
62 section News
education manager, at
keith@amstat.org.
69 Calendar of events
74 Professional Opportunities
Contributing Editor
Kathleen Kiernan is a senior statistician for SAS. She
works closely with customers using SAS and JMP in sev-
eral areas, including design of experiments; linear and
nonlinear regression; linear, mixed, generalized mixed,
and nonlinear mixed models; and genomics. Kiernan
earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology
from Bethany College and has a master’s of science
degree in statistics from Kansas State University.
Kiernan
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