COMMITTEE CORNER
More New Faces Join Committee Ranks
Jim Dickey, ASA Committees Coordinator
A
SA President-elect Sally Morton has
J. Lynn Palmer of The University of
membership on
so far appointed (and reappointed)
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center will
the Survey Review
more than 100 individuals to serve
become the 2009 chair of the Committee
Committee at the
some of the association’s more than 50 com-
on Nominations. Palmer has been an asso-
end of 2008 and
mittees. Many of these new committee mem-
ciation member since 1980 and has served
immediately begin a
bers will attend their respective committee
in numerous volunteer roles. She is a for-
three-year term on the
meetings at JSM this month as guests to get
mer chair of the Committee on Career
Committee on Gay
an idea of what next year will be like.
Development and the Council of Chapters
and Lesbian Concerns
John Paul Deley of the EIA will be pres-
Governing Board, as well as past-president
in Statistics.
ent at the JSM meeting of the Committee
of the Houston Chapter.
Replacing Johnson
on ASA Archives and Historical Materials.
The new ASA-appointed chair of the ASA/
on the Survey Review Morton
He is currently a member of this com-
MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate
Committee will be
mittee, but will begin serving as its chair
Statistics in 2009 is Julie Legler of St. Olaf
Trent D. Buskirk
in 2009. Deley also has served on the
College. Legler has been a member of the
of the St. Louis University School of Public
web site subcommittee of the Committee
Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship subcom-
Health. Buskirk has been treasurer of the
on Committees.
mittee of the Committee on Women in
Arizona Chapter of the ASA.
Andrea Rau of Minot, North Dakota, also
Statistics and secretary-treasurer of the ASA’s
New to the Committee on Award of
becomes a committee chair. An ASA member
Biometrics Section.
Outstanding Statistical Application is
for three years, Rau has been appointed the
Jonaki Bose of the Health Sciences
Scott A. Vander Wiel of the Los Alamos
first chair of the Committee on Student Pro
Authority is the new chair of the Survey
National Laboratory. Vander Wiel has
Bono Statistics, whose purpose is to encour-
Review Committee. Bose already serves
served as president of the association’s
age volunteer efforts by students of statistics
as the secretary for the Section on Survey
Albuquerque Chapter.
to use their analytical skills on a volunteer
Research Methods.
Each year, more than 100 ASA volun-
basis to benefit deserving groups and organi-
Another ASA volunteer who will serve a
teers are appointed to serve on the associa-
zations in their communities. Rau is currently
dual role in 2009 is Sonya L. Vartivarian
tion’s more than 50 committees. You can
doing research in France for her doctorate.
of Mathematica Policy Research. Already
volunteer for committee service or recom-
Although the
appointed by Morton to the Committee
mend another online at
www.amstat.org/
regular member-
on International Relations in Statistics,
comm/nominations. n
ship of the pro bono
Vartivarian has also agreed to join
statistics committee
the new Committee on Statistics in Two-
will be composed
Year Colleges.
of students, several
Joining Vartivarian on the two-year col-
advisory members are
leges committee will be Julie R. Hanson of
being appointed to
Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh,
Volunteers Wanted
provide mentoring.
New York.
Two initial advisory
Monica Hill of the U.S. Census Bureau
Have you ever thought about serving on
members for this
an ASA committee of interest to you? The
Scheuren
and John F. Bremer of Harris Interactive in
committee are Fritz
success of the ASA depends on the ASA
New York City join the ranks of the Survey
Scheuren of NORC
committees and the volunteers who serve
Review Committee. This is the first commit-
on them.
and David Banks
tee service for both Hill and Bremer.
of Duke University,
Another committee rookie is John B.
Each year, vacancies are filled in nearly all
who served as chair
Gabrosek of Grand Valley State University,
of the ASA’s 50+ committees, usually for a
of both the Section
three-year term. A list and description of
who will take up a new education committee
on Risk Analysis and
all the committees can be found at www.
appointment to the Advisory Committee on
amstat.org/comm.
the Committee on
Continuing Education.
Scientific Freedom
The Committee on Energy Statistics also
You can volunteer or recommend another
and Human Rights.
welcomes a newcomer, Israel Melendez of
by going to
www.amstat.org and clicking
Among the initial
on the blue-gray button in the right-
Constellation Energy Commodities Group
Banks
student members will
hand column, labeled “Volunteer or Make
of Baltimore, Maryland.
be Jonathan Hobbs
Recommendations for ASA Committee
Proving that some committee volunteers
Membership.”
of Iowa State University, Meredith Wascher
can’t get enough of a good thing, Christopher
of DePaul University, and Justin Gross of
Johnson of the Centers for Disease Control
Carnegie Mellon.
and Prevention will complete six years of
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