Column Contributors
Funding Opportunities
Salary Survey of Biostatistics and Other Biomedical
Statistics Departments and Units p. 12
DePARTMeNTs
Keith Crank, assistant director for research and gradu-
ate education at the AsA, writes about activities in
21 Meetings
the Washington, DC, area that are of interest to AsA First Comes DC’s History, Then Comes JsM 2009
members. These brief articles include information
about new research solicitations and the federal bud-
25 Education
get for statistics. Comments or suggestions for future
articles may be sent to
keith@amstat.org.
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LearnsTAT Courses for spring 2009
Crank
Crank has a BS in mathematics education and an MS in mathematics from
Michigan State University and a PhD in statistics from Purdue University.
Prior to joining the ASA, he was a program officer at the National Science
Foundation, primarily in the probability program.
First Comes
DC’s History,
Then Comes
Science Policy News
JsM 2009
Science in the Presidential Campaign and the Obama
p. 21
Administration p. 15
stephen W. Pierson, the AsA’s director of science
policy, reports on what the AsA is doing to promote
the inclusion of statistics in policymaking and the
funding of statistics research. To suggest science
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policy topics for the AsA to address, contact Pierson
Fun, Fun, Fun
at
pierson@amstat.org.
p. 25
Pierson
Pierson earned his PhD in physics from the University of Minnesota. He spent
eight years in the physics department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and later
became head of government relations at the American Physical Society.
MeMBeR NeWs
Master’s Notebook
26 People News
What Do Statisticians and Biostatisticians Do? 29 Award Deadlines and Information
p. 19
31 section News
41 Chapter News
This column is written for statistician with master’s
degrees and highlights areas of employment that
42 Calendar of events
will benefit statisticians at the master’s level. This
49 Professional Opportunities
month’s notebook was written by the AsA’s Director
for Research and Graduate education, Keith Crank.
Comments and suggestions should be sent to him
at
keith@amstat.org.
cover design by Megan Murphy
Lakshminarayanan
Contributing Editor:
Mani Lakshminarayanan is director of biostatistics at Centocor, a subsidiary of
Johnson & Johnson in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD in statistics
from Southern Methodist University in 1984.
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