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Application Open for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for outstanding early-career graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers.
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Promoting Your Consulting Business (Carefully) with Email
Email is one way to find clients for a new statistical consulting business, but they should be written carefully. If your emails are too strongly worded and sent too often, you may lose your audience or have your emails marked as spam.
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Two Honored with Ellis R. Ott Scholarship
The Ellis R. Ott Scholarship Governing Committee awards two $7,500 scholarships to promising master’s and PhD candidates pursuing degrees in statistics and related disciplines. This year, the honorees are Valeria Ovalle Ocampo and Luke Hagar.
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Nominations Being Accepted for 2025 Morgan Prize
Nominate an undergraduate student or students for outstanding research in mathematics by May 31.
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Apply for the Annie T. Randall Innovator Award
Early-career statisticians can apply or be nominated for the Annie T. Randall Innovator Award, named for a Black female statistician for her pioneering career in government amid pervasive racial discrimination.
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CUBE Program: A Student’s View of the World of Biostatistics
During the summer of 2022, Kayla Williams participated in the Collaborative Undergraduate Biostatistics Experience program at Virginia Tech. She enjoyed learning about the application of mathematical and statistical concepts to answer real-world questions and realized biostatistics was something she wanted as a career. Here, she tells a little about her experience.
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ASA Travel Fund Winners Talk Awards, CSP 2023
The ASA Student and Early Career Travel Fund provides merit and financial need–based monetary support for students and early-career professionals to attend ASA-sponsored conferences. Here, Lydia Gibson, former JEDI Outreach Group Student and Young Professionals Committee co-chair, interviews award recipients Nikhil Tarigonda, Kotomi Oda, and Alicia Alvarez about their experiences.
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84.51° Data Science Director Shares Advice, Skills Needed to Succeed
What skills does Chad Stripling use daily, and why did he choose data science as a career? He tells us here and offers advice for future data scientists.
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JSM Has Much in Store for Students
Special events created for student members allow them many opportunities to learn, network with other statisticians and data scientists, and get more involved in the association.
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How to Participate in the Career Service as a Candidate
The JSM Career Service gets your profile and résumé in front of top statistical employers from industry, government, and academia.