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Latest News and Announcements Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program to Take Place at JSM Posted on May 1, 2024 | No Comments This program brings together historically underrepresented minority statisticians and data scientists at early to mid-career levels with senior-level statisticians and data scientists from academia, government, and the private sector. Continue Reading... Submission Open for Undergraduate Class Project Competition Posted on May 1, 2024 | No Comments This competition is for undergraduate students who conduct class projects as part of an introductory or intermediate statistics or data science course. Submit by June 21. Continue Reading... Nominations Being Accepted for 2025 Morgan Prize Posted on May 1, 2024 | No Comments Nominate an undergraduate student or students for outstanding research in mathematics by May 31. Continue Reading... Enter Data-Driven Stories in Significance Contest Posted on April 1, 2024 | No Comments Are you an early-career statistician or data scientist with a talent for telling data-driven stories in an entertaining and thought-provoking way? If so, enter the competition for the 2024 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing. Continue Reading... Scholarship Offers $1,000 for Government Statisticians Posted on April 1, 2024 | No Comments Awarded jointly by the ASA’s Government Statistics and Social Statistics sections, this scholarship encourages promising young statisticians to consider a career in government statistics by providing up to $1,000 for use in exploring any of a broad number of opportunities. Continue Reading... Nominations Open for Health Science Awards Posted on April 1, 2024 | No Comments Annually, the Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences Section offers the Young Investigator Award, Outstanding Teaching Award, Distinguished Achievement Award, and Best Contributed Paper at JSM Award. Nominations are currently open for the first three. Continue Reading... CAUSE Accepting Entries for A-μ-Sing Competition Posted on March 1, 2024 | No Comments Students, do you have a statistics joke, cartoon, song, video, or poem? Enter the CAUSE A-μ-Sing competition and win a cash prize. Continue Reading... National Institute of Justice Accepting Applications for Graduate Fellowship Posted on March 1, 2024 | 1 Comment The Graduate Research Fellowship program provides grants to accredited academic institutions to support outstanding doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to improving criminal or juvenile justice practice or policy in the United States. Continue Reading... Three Win CSP Student Awards Posted on March 1, 2024 | No Comments Award winners Garrett B. Duncan, Xingruo (Summer) Zhang, and Kristin K. Gaffney received financial support to attend the 2024 Conference on Statistical Practice. Continue Reading... Applications Due for Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarship Posted on March 1, 2024 | No Comments The scholarship will support the participation of two students at the Quality and Productivity Research Conference. Continue Reading... Welcome Produced by the American Statistical Association, STAT tr@k is geared toward individuals who are in a statistics program, recently graduated from a statistics program, or recently entered the job world. 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