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…

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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…

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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/…

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A new issue of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/bjps/bjps_40_1/bjps_40_1.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/…

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IMS members who are selected to receive the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award can use the funds for travel to any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. Any IMS student member is eligible to apply. Rajdeep Brahma, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jinhang Chai, Princeton University Onrina Chandra, Rutgers, The State University…

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