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  • The March 2010 Newsletter in Adobe pdf or MS Word format
    IN THIS ISSUE:
    • GSS and SSS Candidates For 2010 Election NEW!
    • Nominations Sought for the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award
    • Nominations Sought for the Roger Herriot Award
    • 2010 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship
    • Planning for JSM 2010: GSS Poster Competition
    • Planning for JSM 2010: Announcing the Statistical Research & Methodology Section’s 2010 Student Travel Award Competition
    • JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Mathematica Policy Research Is Seeking Statisticians NEW!
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    UPCOMING DEADLINES AND EVENTS:
    March
      15 - ASA election opens. Don’t forget to vote!!!
      26 - Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award Nomination Deadline
    April
        1  - Roger Herriot Award Nomination Deadline
        9  - Statistical Research & Methodology Section Student Travel Award Competition Deadline
      15 - 2010 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship Application Deadline
    May
      17 - ASA election closes at 11:59 pm (midnight) Pacific Time
  • The Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award - The Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is pleased to announce The 2010 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award. The award is intended to encourage mentoring of junior staff in the Federal statistical system. In 2010, the eligibility for the award will be expanded to include a member of the statistical community at the Federal, State, or Local level. It is presented annually to a supervisor, technical director, team coordinator, or other member of the government statistical staff who is nominated by a supervisor and co-workers. The winner is chosen by the Award Selection Committee. 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.

    2009 marked the first time in the award’s 7-year history that two winners were chosen, as well as the first time the ASA’s Government Statistics Section oversaw the award selection process. Kevin Cecco, Chief of the Corporation Statistics Branch, Statistics of Income Division, IRS, and Lillian Lin, Mathematical Statistician, Division of HIV and AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received their awards at a ceremony held on June 17, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

    If you’re not familiar with the award or would like more information about the current winners and the history of the award, see the excellent article (including a number of pictures from the ceremony) in the August 2009 issue of Amstat News, pp. 51-54, or go to pp 51-54 of http://www.amstat.org/publications/amsn/2009/august.cfm.

    Nominations for 2010 will be accepted beginning in January 2010. The last date for submission of nominations is March 26, 2010, and the Award Committee will make its determination of the award winner by May 7, 2010.
    Nomination forms can be downloaded from: http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform10.doc (MS Word format) or http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform10.pdf (Adobe pdf format)
    For further information on the award, see http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/jegmaann10.pdf
  • 2010 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 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on July 31 - August 5, 2010. 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 18, 2009
  • JSM 2010: 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.
  • 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 2009 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship winner was Jenna Fulton, a matriculating doctoral student in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Her training and related experiences are in the principles and practices of survey research with special interest in federal statistical surveys. Jenna has worked as a research assistant at the University of Maryland on the American Time Use Survey and was a teaching assistant for the Survey Fundamentals course during 2008 - 2009 academic year. Jenna was a summer intern during 2009 with the Agency for Health Research and Quality where she assisted with the agency’s research. Jenna utilized the scholarship to expand her knowledge and explore opportunities for improving the quality of survey data collected by the federal agencies by attending short courses and sessions at 2009 Join Statistical Meetings. Her interest includes measurement errors, missing data, and survey sampling.
    History of Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship
    For 2010: Apply by April 15, 2010!   
    2010 Announcement    .
    2010 Application forms:
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp10.doc for a MS Word version or
    http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/wjsapp10.pdf for an Adobe pdf version
    For further information for 2010, contact Stephen Cambell by e-mail: Stephen.Campbell@nist.gov
  • The Roger Herriot Award - The 2010 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics will be presented at the 2010 JSM in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on July 31 - August 5, 2010. 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 2010 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics.
    Submit nominations by April 1, 2010. Electronic submissions, via pdf, are permissible.
    For more information, contact the Chair of the 2010 Herriot Award Committee, Frank Potter, at 609-936-2799 or FPotter@Mathematica-MPR.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.
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We express our thanks to Government Statistics Section's corporate sponsors who contributed during 2009:
      Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce
      Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
      Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS), National Science Foundation (NSF)
      National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
      National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
      Statistics of Income Division, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
      U.S. Census Bureau
      U.S. Social Security Administration

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