CHAPTER NEWS
NC Chapter Meets, Plans Symposium
Sat Gupta, 2007 Chapter President
(from left) Stephan Ogenstad, 2008 NC ASA Chapter president and Statogen Consulting; Pam Arroway, codirector of statistics graduate programs
at North Carolina State University; Sastry Pantula, head of the statistics department at North Carolina State University; and Sat Gupta, 2007 NC ASA
Chapter president and director of the statistics division at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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he North Carolina Chapter of the ASA held a meeting next year and help post and distribute a regular newsletter to chap-
December 6, 2007, at UNC-Greensboro. Members agreed ter members.
it is important to have a chapter business meeting every year To round out the meeting, incoming NC ASA Chapter President
and organize a symposium once every two years. Also, Sastry Stephan Ogenstad of Statogen Consulting in Wake Forest, North
Pantula, head of the statistics department at North Carolina State Carolina, gave a seminar titled “The Statistician Is Always a
University, commended the organizers of the recent international Statistical Consultant.” He emphasized the need to learn how to
conference on advances in interdisciplinary statistics and combina- operate through good verbal communication and human interac-
torics and agreed that organizing a symposium once every two years tion and that excellent communication is critical to effective interac-
in North Carolina will bring together all members, especially iso- tion with people. Statisticians, he mentioned, are the thought lead-
lated statisticians. If you are interested in hosting the next sympo- ers. Chapter members enjoyed the seminar—and the pizza.
sium in 2009, contact 2007 NC ASA Chapter President Sat Gupta Chapter leaders are now soliciting nominations for the next
at
sngupta@uncg.edu. Finally, Qing Shi, a statistics graduate student chapter vice president. If you would like to nominate yourself or
at UNC-Greensboro, volunteered to serve as webmaster for the someone else, contact Gupta at
sngupta@uncg.edu. ■
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