From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten concludes her two-part column about her experience as a journal editor. Part 1 (which you can read here) in the August 2025 issue, contains her thoughts about editors, associate editors (AEs), and reviewers. In this part, Daniela focuses on advice to authors.
Sometimes …
Our contributing editor Layla Parast recalls how tough she found graduate school—until she found her people, a “pod” of friends…for life:
As the new academic year begins, one of my favorite traditions is meeting one-on-one with each of our incoming PhD students. This year, that tradition is a big…
Student Puzzle editor Anirban DasGupta returns with three problems, over diverse topics. He says, “You can send a solution to just one, but we would be delighted if you send more! We hope you will enjoy thinking about the different things in these problems.”
The deadline for solutions is November…
On March 31st of this year, our community lost the energetic and creative force that was Sayan Mukherjee. Sayan passed away unexpectedly at the age of 54 in Leipzig, Germany, where he was a Humboldt Professor at the University of Leipzig and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for…
Simos Meintanis, who passed away on February 14, 2025, was a Professor of Statistics & Econometrics in the Department of Economic Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Simos was born on January 1, 1959, in Athens, Greece. He studied Mathematics and Statistics in Greece (Athens University…