COMMITTEE CORNER
Newest Committee Volunteers Highlighted
Jim Dickey, Committees Coordinator
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008 President-elect Sally Morton con- Committee. Said joins the committee after
Amarjot Kaur of Merck will join
tinues to appoint new chairs and mem- serving on the Science Policy Task Force.
the popular Committee on Applied
bers to the more than 50 ASA commit- Gray previously served on the Committee on
Statisticians, while Lisa Blumerman of the
tees. Following are the individuals who Scientific Freedom and Human Rights and
Census Bureau will join the Committee on
accepted committee service most recently. was the 2006 president of the Caucus for
the ASA Archives and Historical Materials.
First, the ASA saw the appointment Women in Statistics.
eduardas Valaitis of Price Waterhouse
of four new committee chairs for 2009. Completing the roster of the Committee
Coopers LLP will serve on the Committee
Jerome Reiter of Duke University will sit at on Fellows for 2009 is member Jacqueline
on Women in Statistics.
the helm of the Committee on Privacy and Hughes-Oliver of North Carolina State
Mammo Woldie of Texas Southern
Statistics, while William Seltzer of Fordham University. Hughes-Oliver is an ASA mem-
University and Sonya L. Vartivarian of
will take over the Committee on Scientific ber of nearly 20 years and served on the
Mathematica Policy Research will join the
Freedom and Human Rights and Thomas Committee on Minorities in Statistics and
Committee on International Relations. An
Petska of the IRS will chair the Committee the Section on Environmental Statistics.
ASA member since 1996, this is Woldie’s first
on Professional Ethics in Statistics. Reiter, New members for the ASA awards com-
committee job. Vartivarian recently served
Seltzer, and Petska are all veteran members of mittee include Ram C. Tiwari of the National
as the publications officer for the Section on
Become a Student Member of the
the committees they will now direct. Cancer Institute, who joins the Samuel S.
Government Statistics.
Each of these chairs will be joined by new Wilks Memorial Medal Committee, and
Each year, more than 100 ASA volunteers
members. Julia I. Lane of NORC will join Suzanne R. Dubnicka of Kansas State
serve on the association’s more than 50 com-
American Statistical Association
the privacy committee, Matthias Schonlau University, who will be added to the roster
mittees. You can volunteer for committee ser-
of RAND will serve on scientific freedom, for the Noether Awards Committee.
vice or recommend another online at www.
and Steve Bailey of NIST will become a
amstat.org/comm/nominations. n
for only $10
member of professional ethics.
Lastly, William I. notz of The Ohio State
University has been jointly appointed by
Free Career Seminar To
Morton and American Society for Quality
President Michael D. Nichols to serve as
Be Offered at JSM
the chair of the Technometrics Management
Committee. Notz has abundant past vol-
unteer experience, having been a member
M
ake plans now to attend a free career development sem-
inar during JSM on Sunday, August 3, from 4–6 p.m.
at the Hyatt Regency. Dick De Veaux, professor in the
of the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on
Mathematics and Statistics Department of Williams College, will
Undergraduate Statistics and currently serv-
present “Educating Our Customers: What Every Statistician
ing as chair of the Section on Physical and
De Veaux
Should Know About Teaching Statistics to Nonstatisticians.”
Engineering Sciences.
Modern statistical consulting inevitably involves teamwork and communicating the
Two were appointed to a joint com-
results to people who neither are nor want to be statisticians. It is important to keep in
mittee in May. First, Alyson G. Wilson of
mind the different audiences in the statistics classroom. Not everyone intends to make
Los Alamos National Labs will begin work
statistics their career. As a discipline, we have learned a lot in the last few decades about how
as an ASA member of the Technometrics
to better teach this wider audience. How can we take lessons learned in the classroom into
Management Committee in 2009. Wilson is
the stockroom and the boardroom? How are the situations similar, and what are the main
both a past chair of the Section on Statistics in
challenges in making the transition?
Defense and National Security and past presi-
De Veaux will discuss the strategies, by way of example, that he has discovered as a
dent of the ASA’s Albuquerque Chapter.
teacher and consultant. He holds degrees in civil engineering (BSE, Princeton), mathe-
Second, added to the membership of the
matics (AB, Princeton), physical education with a specialization in dance (MA, Stanford),
Journal of Computational and Graphical
and statistics (PhD, Stanford). He has taught at the Wharton School, the Princeton
Statistics as an ASA member was Chris
Are you a professor of statistics?
University School of Engineering, and, since 1994, Williams College. He has won
Volinsky of AT&T Labs. This will be
numerous teaching awards, including a “Lifetime Award for Dedication and Excellence
Encourage your students to join and the ASA will provide up to $100 for refreshments!
Volinsky’s first committee task.
in Teaching” from the Engineering Council at Princeton. He returned to Princeton in
Better yet, your department can sponsor ASA memberships!
Joining the Committee on Career
2006 as the William R. Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching. He
See www.amstat.org/membership!
Development will be Devan V. Mehrotra of
has won both the Wilcoxon and Shewell awards (twice) from the American Society for
Merck. Mehrotra is another former chapter
Quality and is a Fellow of the ASA. In 2008, he was named the statistician of the year by
www.amstat.org/join
president joining a committee, as he was at
the Boston Chapter of the ASA.
the helm of the ASA chapter in Philadelphia.
De Veaux has been a consultant for nearly 25 years for such companies as American
Other new committee member appoin-
Express, Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, First USA, Dupont, Pillsbury, Rohm and Haas, Ernst and
tees include Yasmin H. Said of The Johns
Young, General Electric, and Chemical Bank. He holds two U.S. patents and is the author
Hopkins University and Mary W. Gray
of more than 30 refereed journal articles and four books, including Intro Stats with Paul
of American University. They will join the
Velleman and Dave Bock.
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