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Jiming Jiang and Laura Steinberg Recipients of the first NISS Former Postdoc Achievement Awards

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As part of the 25th anniversary celebration at the NISS-SAMSI reception, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) initiated a new award to recognize the extraordinary achievements of some of its former postdocs. NISS started mentoring postdoctoral fellows and associates in 1993. Since... more

Stephen E. Fienberg Bestowed the 2015 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross Disciplinary Research

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Seattle, Washington, August 11, 2015: Mary Batcher, chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS),announces that Dr. Stephen E. Fienberg has received the 2015 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research. The announcement was made by Dr. Nell... more

Profile on NISS Board of Trustees Member Dr. Gabriel Huerta

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Gabriel Huerta, Professor and Graduate Chair for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Mexico, recently joined the NISS Board of Trustees.  Gabriel sat down with us to tell us about his background. Gabriel was born and raised in the thriving metropolis of... more

Hang Kim Receives the KISS Career Development Award

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Former NISS postdoc Hang Kim, who recently accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, received the Korean Statistical Society's Career Development Award. The award was presented during the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Seattle, Washington,.  This is... more

Welcome to the new NISS blog!

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Welcome to the debut of NISS' new blog! We think this new feature will be a new and exciting way to start a conversation with you. It will have first-hand accounts from some of the workshops, profiles of people in the statistics field and highlights from some of our events What can I expect to... more

NISS Announces Two New Members to its Board of Trustees

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The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), a non-profit institution that conducts statistical science research, announced that Gabriel Huerta and Ray Bain have been selected to serve on the organization's Board of Trustees. The new Board members will begin their terms July 1, 2015 and... more

Former NISS Board member Janet Norwood Passes Away

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Former NISS Board of Trustee member Janet Norwood passed away March 27. She was 91. Norwood led the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1979 - 1991 and was a trailblazer for many female statisticians. Read about her amazing career in the New York Times obituary.Norwood served on the NISS Board of... more

Using Faulty Forensic Science Courts Fail the Innocent (Op-Ed)

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NISS Board member, Karen Kafadar, who is one of the SAMSI program leaders for the Forensics program next year, and professor of statistics at the University of Virginia, along Anne-Marie Mazza, National Academy of Sciences, wrote an op-ed piece in Live Science. The focus of the piece was talking... more

Board of Trustees Member Susan Ellenberg Featured in The Economist

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Susan Ellenberg, a NISS Board of Trustees member and Professor of Biostatistics, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Associate Dean for Clinical Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine was featured in The Economist article, "Brain Scan: Medicine by numbers"She... more

Toronto Sun - Burger, with a side of skepticism

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The Toronto Sun writes, "In diet science, as with the global warming scare, many of the strongest claims came from highly respected institutions, such as Harvard's school of public health. But in 2011, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in the U.S. determined most of Harvard’s claims... more

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