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  • The June 2009 Newsletter in Adobe pdf or MS Word format
    IN THIS ISSUE:
    • Upcoming Deadlines and Events
    • GSS Thanks Its Corporate Sponsors!
    • JSM 2009 News: SSS and GSS Roundtables
    • JSM 2009 News: SSS and GSS Invited Sessions
    • JSM 2009 News: GSS Poster Contest
    • JSM 2009 News: Results Of The Student Paper Competition Sponsored By A Consortium of Sections
    • Mollie Orshansky Session Video Now Live
    • GSS and SSS 2009 Election Results
    • Invitation to the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award Ceremony on June 17
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    UPCOMING DEADLINES AND EVENTS:
    May 2009: JSM 2009: main and speaker registration is open
    June 2009:
    29 JSM 2009: early bird registration deadline (5:00pm Eastern or 2:00pm Pacific)
    30 JSM 2009: advance registration begins (increased fees apply)
    July 2009:
    8   JSM 2009: hotel reservation deadline
    13 JSM 2009: final program (downloadable PDF file) posted online
    16 JSM 2009: advance registration ends (5:00pm Eastern or 2:00pm Pacific)
    August 2009:
    1-6 JSM 2009 is being held in Washington, DC; on-site registration available (increased fees apply)
  • 2009 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award Ceremony - You are cordially invited to the 2009 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award Ceremony on Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at 4:00 pm Seminar Room 3, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Conference Center, 2 Massachusetts Avenue
    The 2009 Awardees are: Kevin Cecco, Statistics of Income Division, IRS and Lillian Lin, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    (BLS is in the Postal Square Building , on First Street , across the Street from Union Station). The ceremony, as in previous years, will be held in the BLS Conference Center, down one flight, after entering the building through the First Street entrance.
    Awardees are welcome to invite family, friends, and colleagues to attend this ceremony. However, the BLS building is a secured facility and those wishing to attend need to have their names on the BLS "visitor entrance list" for that day AND have a photo ID with them (e.g. driver's license).
    Consequently,if you plan to attend, please send an e-mail to Beth Kilss, member, Jeanne E. Griffith Award Selection Committee, at bakilss@msn.com. Responses by Wednesday, June 10, are preferable and would be appreciated, but we will accommodate your RSVP until June 15. (You may also call Beth at 571-213-6864 and provide this information.)
    Sponsors: The Jeanne E. Griffith is managed by the Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Sponsors of the award are: ASA Government Statistics Section, ASA Social Statistics Section, ASA Washington Statistical Society, American Educational Research Association, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
  • ASA 2009 Election Results - In the 2009 Government Statistics Section balloting Steven Paben was elected as Chair Elect, Iris Shimizu was elected as the Program Chair Elect, and Kennon Copeland was elected as Council of Sections Representative. Their terms begin January 1, 2010.
  • 2009 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 Washington, DC on August 1-6, 2009. 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 2009 expenses.
    Apply by December 19, 2008
  • JSM 2009: GSS Contributed Poster Contest - Thinking about contributing a paper to JSM? Why not contribute that paper through a “poster” format. The Government Statistics Section is initiating a new annual competition for “best poster” presentation at JSM to encourage both the quantity and quality of poster submissions. Winner of the best poster will receive $500 plus two years of free membership in GSS. Honorable Mentions will receive $250. Winning posters will be re-displayed at the GSS Business Meeting and Social.
  • The Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award - The Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is pleased to announce The 2009 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 2008 is Rosemary D. Marcuss, Deputy Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce. Rosemary maintains a special interest in making economic statistics and economic analysis accessible and comprehensible to as many people as possible. She continually redesigns BEA activities, from external outreach to internal presentations, to involve more junior staff.
    For more information see: http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEG08win.htm
    History of Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award
    Citations on the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Awards: in MS Word (.doc) format and in Adobe (.pdf) format.
    Nominations for 2009 will be accepted beginning in January 2009. The last date for submission of nominations is March 27, 2009, and the Award Committee will make its determination of the award winner by May 8, 2009.
    Nomination forms can be downloaded from: http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform09.doc (MS Word format) or http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform09.pdf (Adobe pdf format)
    For further information on the award, see http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/jegmaann09.htm
  • 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.
    The Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Committee has selected Kirsten Lum as the 2008 scholarship winner. Kirsten was a student at American University at the time of selection but will be a doctoral student at the George Washington University this fall. This award provides funds for Kirsten’s participation in the ENAR/IBS 2009 Spring Meetings in San Antonio, TX. She will be presenting on methods for joint modeling of longitudinal and survival time data. This is joint work with Dr. Rajeshwari Sundaram and Dr. Germaine Buck Louis, both from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). She began working on this project as an intern at NICHD in the summer of 2007. Kirsten is also a presenter at JSM 2008 in Session 267 (Methods for Survival Time Analyses). She will speak on "Joint Model of Longitudinal Binary Data with Discrete Survival Time." Members of the 2008 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Committee are Michael P. Cohen (chair), Robert A. Kominski, and Stephen L. Campbell.
    History of Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship
    For 2009: Apply by April 15, 2009!   
    2009 Announcement    .
    2009 Application forms:
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp09.doc for a MS Word version or
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp09.pdf for an Adobe pdf version
    For further information for 2009, contact Robert A. Kominski by e-mail: robert.a.kominski@census.gov
  • The Roger Herriot Award - The 2009 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics will be presented at the 2009 JSM in Washington, DC on August 1 - 6, 2009. The Roger Herriot Award is sponsored by the Washington Statistical Society, the ASA's Social Statistics Section and the ASA's Government Statistics Section.
    Nominations are now sought for the 2009 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics.
    Submit nominations by May 1, 2009. Electronic submissions, via pdf, are permissible.
    For more information, contact the Chair of the 2008 Herriot Award Committee, Dwight Brock, dwightbrock@westat.com. Electronic submissions are permissible.
  • 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. When Pat died, she 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.
  • The Government Statistics Section Business Meeting minutes - July 2007 in MS Word format.
We express our thanks to Government Statistics Section's corporate sponsors for 2009:
      CDC - National Center for Health Statistics
      Internal Revenue Service - Statistics of Income Div.
      U.S. Census Bureau
      U.S. Dept of Agriculture - National Agricultural Statistical Service
      U.S. Dept of Commerce - Bureau of Economic Analysis
      U.S. Social Security Administration

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Last updated:     June 5, 2009.

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