Marianne Huebner, our newest contributing editor, is Professor of Statistics and Probability, Adjunct Professor of Kinesiology, and Director of the Center for Statistical Training and Consulting (CSTAT), at Michigan State University. She is also a competitive weightlifter, lifting in national and international championships. She seized a chance to combine these…

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Linjun Zhang concludes with the third in our invited series of articles on LLMs and AI (read part 1 and part 2), and their implications for the statistics profession. He turns to the practical consideration of how we can see AI as a collaborator, instead of as either a…

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Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). If correct, we’ll publish your name (and photo, if there’s space), and the answer, in the next issue. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban DasGupta. His decision is final. Guest Student Puzzle editor Stanislav Volkov sets …

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Dr. Richard Arnold “Rich” Johnson, age 88 of Madison, USA, died on February 2, 2026. He lived a rich life of service and countless contributions to the field and profession of statistics. Rich was born on July 10, 1937, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He obtained three degrees from the University…

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The Department of Statistics at Columbia University mourns the passing of Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo, who passed away on October 25, 2025, at the age of 74. Professor Lo was a distinguished statistician, teacher, and collaborator whose work transformed both theoretical and applied statistics. His research in asymptotic theory, survival analysis,…

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