byar Young Investigator and
Travel Awards
Quality and Productivity
Do you know a young investigator who
is planning to submit an abstract for the
Suggestions Wanted for Web Site
2009 Joint Statistical Meetings? If so, you
may wish to tell him or her that the ASA
The section’s web site is undergoing a massive
Biometrics Section is seeking nomina-
redesign, and we would like to make the content
tions for the 2009 David P. Byar Young
of the site interactive with a blog, webinars, live
Investigator Award. This annual award is
chats, and more. We invite section members to
given to a young investigator for best emerg-
offer opinions and suggestions for improvement.
ing work to be presented at JSM. The award
Visit
www.amstat-online.org/sections/qp, and then
is in memory of David Byar, who made sig-
go to the “Contact Us” section to tell us what you
nificant contributions to the development
want to see.
and application of statistical methods and
The Q&P executive committee also spent time at JSM 2008 discussing what
was esteemed as an exceptional mentor
activities Q&P should be doing to support the ASA’s strategic objectives. The com-
during his career at the National Cancer
mittee is investigating ways to strengthen our relationship with the American Society
Institute. The winner will receive $1,000.
for Quality. Q&P already jointly sponsors the Fall Technical Conference with two
In addition to the Byar Award, the
ASQ sections, as well as the ASA’s Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences.
section may provide travel awards to the
This agreement is up for renewal in 2009 and we are looking forward to continuing
authors of other outstanding papers sub-
this joint sponsorship.
mitted to the Byar award competition.
Q&P has instituted webinars on a variety of Q&P-related topics and will con-
Applicants must have held a doctorate in
tinue to do so in 2009. Section officers encourage ASA and ASQ members to keep
statistics, biostatistics, or a related quantita-
an eye out for announcements about upcoming webinars. Become a Q&P member
tive field for three or fewer years as of April
to receive a special discount.
1 of the current year or be enrolled as a
doctoral student in statistics or biostatistics
and in active pursuit of a doctoral degree.
They also must be first author of the paper
submitted and current members of the ASA
Biometrics Section. (Membership in the
ASA does not automatically confer section
membership. Applicants may join at the
time of submission for a $3 annual mem-
bership fee.) The paper may be submitted to
a journal or under review, but may not have
appeared online or in print at the time of the
application or have been accepted for publi-
cation as of January 1, 2009. Finally, appli-
cants must be scheduled to present the sub-
mitted paper at JSM 2009 in Washington,
DC, as a talk or poster presentation.
Applicants are encouraged, but not
required, to submit their abstracts to the
Biometrics Section. Application materials
should consist of the following in electron-
ic format: a cover letter certifying that the
applicant meets the eligibility requirements,
a current CV, and a copy of the finished
paper (drafts are not acceptable).
Applicants are invited to submit one
copy each of supplementary published or
in-press papers if they compose a body of
scientific work related to the paper to be
presented. If these are not available elec-
tronically, contact Jeremy Taylor, chair
of the 2009 Biometrics Section Awards
Committee, at
jmgt@umich.edu. All materi-
als, including the paper, must be submitted
electronically on or before April 1, 2009. n
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