COMMITTEE CORNER
New Committee Volunteers Lined Up
Jim Dickey, Committees Coordinator
T
his was an excellent month for com-
mittee chair appointments by
President-elect Sally Morton. Five new
Each year, more than 100 ASA volunteers are appointed to serve on the
chairs will be heading up ASA committees in
association’s more than 50 committees. You can volunteer for committee
2009, all of them serving members of their
service or recommend another at www.amstat.org/comm/nominations/
respective committees who were promoted
index.cfm?fuseaction=welcome.
from within.
Heading the popular Committee on
Applied Statisticians will be Jennifer L. S. Anderson, Ensor has served in committee, Last of the new chairs is Scott R. Evans
Gauvin of GlaxoSmithKline. And joining section, and chapter leadership positions in of the Harvard School of Public Health, who
the Committee on Applied Statisticians as the past, including president of the ASA’s will head the Development Committee.
a member is Heather J. Litman of New Houston Chapter and program chair of the Evans previously served as chair of the
England Research Institutes. A fairly new Section on Statistics and the Environment. Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
member of the ASA (joining in 2007), this Montserrat Fuentes of North Carolina and Statistics in Sports sections as well as
will be Litman’s first volunteer assignment. State University will join Ensor. Fuentes president of the Boston Chapter.
Margo Anderson of the University of previously acted as the secretary/treasurer of Three student members will join the
Wisconsin at Milwaukee will helm the the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science. new Committee on Student Pro Bono
Committee on Committees. Anderson David W. Scott of Rice University will Statistics: David Resendes of the University
is a longtime ASA volunteer and mem- become one of three at-large members of of Massachusetts, Douglas Baumann
ber, having served two terms as chair of the Committee on Publications. Scott Jr. of Purdue, and Xiaobi Huang of the
the Committee on ASA Archives and has been an ASA member for 30 years University of Michigan.
Historical Materials. Joining Anderson as and previously served the association on Frank Li of the University of Houston
members will be two former committee the Noether Awards Committee. will become a member of the Committee
chairs: Virginia Lesser of Oregon State Taking office immediately as the chair on Statistics in Two-Year Colleges. Also
University and Nagambal Shah of Spelman of the Excellence in Statistical Reporting joining the Two-Year Colleges Committee is
College. Lesser is finishing a stint as head Award Committee is Telba Z. Irony of Mary R. Parker of The University of Texas
of the Survey Review Committee and also the FDA. Joining Irony next year as a and Austin Community College. Parker has
has been president of the ASA’s Oregon member is Denise Lievesley, who works extensive experience with ASA education
Chapter. Shah is the present chair of the for the African Centre of Statistics for committees, having served on the ASA/
Committee on Minorities in Statistics. the United Nations in Addis Ababa, AMATYC Joint Committee on Statistics
Katherine Ensor of Rice University Ethiopia. Lievesley recently served as the in Two-Year Colleges and on the ASA/
will take over leadership of the Committee international representative to the ASA NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum
on Federally Funded Research. Similar to Board of Directors. in Statistics and Probability for two non-
consecutive terms. She also has served as
president of the ASA’s Austin Chapter.
Diane Lambert of Google joins the
Committee on Nominations, which chooses
the candidates for the ASA’s national leader-
ship positions. A 30-year veteran of the ASA,
Lambert is a former member of the Founders
Award Committee.
Replacing a resigning member, Douglas
A. Samuelson of InfoLogix has already
joined the Committee on Professional Ethics
in Statistics. Samuelson is a past member of
the Committee on Scientific Freedom and
Human Rights.
Each year, more than 100 ASA volunteers
are appointed to serve on the association’s
more than 50 committees. You can volunteer
for committee service or recommend another
at www.amstat.org/comm/nominations/index.
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