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May 23, 2013
Are you a new researcher who is attending the JSM in Montreal?If so, you might be interested in attending the following special event: Building a Research Career – Advice and Discussion A panel with six former COPSS Presidents Award winners, organized on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of COPSS…

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May 16, 2013
INGenIOuS: Strategies for advancing the mathematics and statistics workforce Deb Nolan writes: The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has joined the INGenIOuS community (Investing in the Next Generation through Innovative and Outstanding Strategies), along with the American Statistical Association, US National Science Foundation, Mathematical Association of America, American Mathematical Society, and…

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Featuring news about Peter Hall, Gregory Lawler; Larry Shepp; Gareth Roberts, Terry Speed; Larry Brown, Bin Yu; Eyal Lubetsky; T.N. Sriram; Vincenzo Capasso; Peter Bickel.   US National Academy of Sciences elects Peter Hall and Greg Lawler The US National Academy of Sciences has elected 84 new members and 21…

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Deadline June 15, 2013 Nominations are sought for the 2013 National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research. The prize recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences. The prize of $1,000 will be presented at the NISS/SAMSI JSM Reception on August 5, 2013,…

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The Foundation for Open Access Statistics (FOAS) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation registered in California. We have applied for federal tax-exempt status under Internal Revenue Section 501(c)(3). FOAS has a worldwide mission to promote free software, open access publishing, and reproducible research in statistics. Currently, the Journal of Statistical

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