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student chapter Archive
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Babson College Launches Student Chapter
Some of the chapter’s activities so far include participating in a DataFest competition at Wellesley College and reviewing statistical journals to see which would be good sources for a statistics education-based project.
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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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Host a Career Panel to Connect with Statistics, Data Analytics Professionals
Every year, the University of Cincinnati ASA student chapter—named BearStats—hosts a career panel of professionals from industry in statistics and data science.
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Indiana Student Chapter
Members of the Indiana University Student Chapter participated in Celebrate Science Indiana!
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GMU Students Win Best Data Visualization
More than 30 students participated in Data Challenge DC, six of which were from GMU. One of GMU’s graduate statistics students was on the team that won for best data visualization.
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Student Opportunities at JSM
Lara Harmon, the ASA’s marketing and online community coordinator, lists several opportunities for students to be involved in the Joint Statistical Meetings this August.
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Student Chapter Officers Gather for First Time at JSM 2017
ASA student chapter officers and faculty advisers came together for the first time at this year’s JSM to share their experiences and plan for the future.
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Student Chapter Hosts Counting Card Social
The Statistics Club at Florida International University hosted a counting card social, gained new members and had a lot of statistics-related fun.
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DC DataFest: George Mason’s ASA Chapter Wins ‘Best Visualization’ Award
The multi-disciplinary team of five students from the ASA’s George Mason University Student Chapter attended the weekend-long Big Data analysis competition April 8–10.
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The NMSU ASA Student Chapter Leadership and Ron Wasserstein
At a special seminar series at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein discussed the problems inherent in p-values specifically and how they are misunderstood, misused, and maligned.