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May 16, 2026
Here’s the latest news from the Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science:
Fifth Annual International Day for Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference
We are pleased to share some updates about the 5th Annual IDWSDS Conference, taking place online on October 6th, 2026. Abstract submission is…
William S. Cleveland, the Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Courtesy Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, passed away on March 27, 2026, at the age of 83. A pioneering statistician and visionary scholar, Bill transformed the way generations of researchers think about data, graphics, and scientific…
On December 28, 2025 our distinguished friend and colleague Stephen Portnoy passed away at the age of 83. Stephen was a founding member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an influential contributor to the international research community of mathematical statistics throughout his long…
Yehenew Kifle (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) is the conference chair for the Ninth African International Conference on Statistics (2026 AIC) to be held at Strathmore University in Kenya from June 29 to July 3, 2026. He writes with some background on the AIC series:
The African International…
May 4, 2026
A new issue of Bernoulli has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bej/bej_32_3/bej_32_3.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…