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  • The June 2008 Newsletter in Adobe pdf or MS Word format
    IN THIS ISSUE:
    • Results of the 2008 ASA Officer Elections: GSS and SSS Officers Announced
    • American Statistical Association Names 53 Fellows for 2008
    • Get to Know Your Sections at JSM
    • Save the Date: Elections and Exit Polls Book Signing
    Don’t forget these upcoming events ~~
     • JSM 2008 registration opened May 1st – Early bird rates apply until June 26th
    • Look for the July Newsletter on July 7th, with features to help you plan for JSM 2008
  • The Government Statistics Section Business Meeting minutes - July 2007 in MS Word format.
  • ASA 2008 Election Results - In the 2007 Government Statistics Section balloting the Section Charter Revision was approved and John S. Dixon of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics was elected as Chair Elect, Lisa M. Blumerman of the U.S. Census Bureau was elected as the Program Chair Elect, Sonya L. Vartivarian of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. was elected as Publications Officer, and Lester R. Curtin of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention was elected as Secretary/Treasurer. Their terms begin January 1, 2009.
  • Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship - The Government Statistics Section and the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) are pleased to announce the availability of a scholarship in memory of Wray Jackson Smith, a founding member of the Section and long-time contributor to Federal statistics. The Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship (WJSS), co-sponsored with the Washington Statistical Society, the Caucus for Women in Statistics, Harris-Smith Institutes, Mathematica Policy Research, and Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., is intended to reward promising young statisticians for their diligence, thereby encouraging them to consider a future in government statistics.
    On April 25, 2007, Juanita Tamayo Lott, chair of the Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Committee, announced that the committee had selected Romesh Silva as the 2007 scholarship winner. Romesh is a doctoral candidate in demography at the University of California Berkeley. This award provided funds for Romesh's participation at the July 2007 conference, "Recent Developments in Capture-Recaptures Methods and Their Applications," at University of Reading, UK, including presentation of an original paper on estimation of elusive populations and two pre-conference short courses. Romesh is also a presenter at JSM 2007 in the Contributed Session 116 ("Estimating Mortality and Migration") sponsored by the Social Statistics Section.
    Other members of the 2007 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Committee are Michael P. Cohen and Robert Kominski.
    For more information see the article in: The July 2007 GSS/SSS Newsletter
    History of Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship
    For 2008: Apply by April 15, 2008!   
    2008 Announcement    .
    2008 Announcement Flyer (MS Word format).
    2008 Application forms:
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp08.doc for a MS Word version or
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp08.pdf for an Adobe pdf version
    For further information, contact Michael P. Cohen by e-mail: mpcohen@juno.com
  • 2007 Student Paper Competition - The Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Sections are pleased to announce the award winners of the 2007 Student Paper Competition. The winners are: Hukum Chandra, Georg Goerg, Justin Gross, Clint Roberts, and Mandi Yu. See 2007 Student Paper Competition Winners for additional details. Winning papers will be presented at the Student Paper Awards Session at 2:00 PM on Sunday July 29, 2007 and recognized at the Sections’ business meetings.
  • 2008 Student Paper Competition - The Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Sections are pleased to announce a competition for student and postgraduate papers to be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Denver, Colorado on August 3-7, 2008. At least five awards will be granted. Winning papers are presented by the authors at a session of the meeting and are recognized at the Sections’ business meetings. A subsidy of up to $800 is provided to each winner in order to cover JSM 2008 expenses.
    Apply by December 15, 2007
  • The Roger Herriot Award - The 2007 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics will be presented at the 2007 JSM in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 29 - August 2, 2007. The Roger Herriot Award is sponsored by the Washington Statistical Society, the ASA's Social Statistics Section and the ASA's Government Statistics Section.
    Daniel H. Weinberg, Chair of the Award Committee, is pleased to announce Dr. Nancy Kirkendall will receive the 2007 Herriot Award for Innovation. Please join us for presentation of the 2007 Herriot Award, July 30, 2007, 3:40 PM, Convention Center 254-C. Cake and refreshments will be served.
    For more information see the article in the July 2007 Newsletter (pdf format).
    Submit 2008 nominations by April 1, 2008. Electronic submissions, via pdf, are permissible.
    For more information, contact Dan Weinberg at daniel.h.weinberg@census.gov for 2007
    and Brian Harris-Kojetin at bharrisk@omb.eop.gov for 2008.
  • The Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award - The Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is pleased to announce The 2008 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award. The purpose of the award is to encourage the mentoring of junior staff in the Federal statistical system. This award is co-sponsored with the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, the Council for Excellence in Government, the Washington Statistical Society, the Social Statistics and Government Statistics Sections of the American Statistical Association, and the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics.
    The Award Selection Committee is pleased to announce that the winner for 2007 is Stephanie Shipp, Director of the Economic Assessment Office in the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Stephanie directs a staff of economists and statisticians who conduct economic research and program evaluation that examine the transition from scientific innovation to commercial innovation.
    For more information see: http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEG07win.htm
    History of Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award
    Nominations for 2008 will be accepted beginning in January 2008. The last date for submission of nominations is March 28, 2008, and the Award Committee will make its determination of the award winner by May 9, 2008.
    For further information on the award, see http://www.copafs.org or http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/jegmaann08.htm
  • The Pat Doyle Award - The Executive Committee of the Government Statistics Section (GSS) created the Pat Doyle Award in 2005 as a tribute to Pat’s dedication to the statistical field and the GSS during her lifetime. Pat died slightly more than a year ago and left her imprints on an astonishingly wide range of projects and activities in the U.S. federal statistical community. The award is given to a person who contributes to the GSS in a way that leaves a lasting impact on GSS and ASA.
    A panel, made up of Stephanie Shipp, 2006 GSS chair; Chet Bowie, 2005 GSS chair; and Steve Cohen, 2007 GSS chair, selected Robert Lussier as the second recipient of the award.
    Robert, who works at Statistics Canada, is the Publications Officer for GSS. In this position, he did an extraordinary job in organizing GSS to submit articles to every issue of Amstat News during 2005 and 2006. He created an electronic newsletter and worked closely with the GSS Newsletter editor, Pat Melvin, and with the Social Statistics Section (SSS) publications officer, Beth Kilss, to ensure that an up-to-date and interesting newsletter was sent out every month to all GSS and SSS members.
    A plaque was given to Robert during the GSS annual business meeting at the 2006 JSM in Seattle.
We express our thanks to Government Statistics Section's corporate sponsors:
      Internal Revenue Service
      National Agricultural Statistical Service
      Social Security Administration
      U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
      U.S. Census Bureau

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