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## Donald Rubin - January 19th, 5.pm., CSU-Fort Collins ## K-12 Student Outreach ## Gertrude Cox Scholarship - Application Due April 1st. ## Volunteerism - Special Interest Group(SIG) ## Donald Rubin - January 19th, 5.pm., CSU-Fort Collins PRIMES Distinguished Lecture "Causal Inference Through Potential Outcomes: Application to Quality of Life Studies with Censoring Due to Death and to Studies of the Effect of Job-training Programs on Wages" This will talk also be sponsored by the CO-WY Chapter of the ASA. Before the lecture, there will be a formal reception from 4:10 - 5 pm. Afterwards, people from the lecture are welcome to attend a dinner at a nearby restaurant. You will receive one more notice about Dr. Rubin's talk next week with room locations. If anyone coming from the Denver or Boulder area is interested in car-pooling, please send a note to pocernic@ucar.edu and we can attempt to help coordinate rides. For those outside the Fort Collins area, we are hoping this will be a fun opportunity to meet some of the statistics people up at CSU. Its not required but if you think you are interested in dinner, please let me know. ## K-12 Student Outreach Several members of the chapter met last week to discuss possible K-12 outreach activities. A workshop with chapter members, teachers and people studying math education is being considered. The goal of this workshop would be to develop and practice several talks aim at several levels of high school students. The presentations need to be engaging, have an education component and show why statistics is a great field. With these presentations, we will then try and get ourselves invited into some schools. If you are interested in learning more about this, send a note to pocernic@ucar.edu. At this time, no commitment is necessary. ## Gertrude Cox Scholarship - Application Due April 1st. The American Statistical Association (ASA) would like to announce the 2006 Gertrude Cox Scholarship. The Gertrude Cox Scholarship is awarded each year to encourage women to enter statistically oriented professions. The ASA Committee on Women in Statistics and the Caucus for Women in Statistics sponsor the scholarship. Application is limited to women who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada, and who are admitted to full-time study in a graduate statistical program by July 1 of the award year. Women entering or in the early stages of graduate training (M.S. or Ph.D.) are especially encouraged to apply. http://www.amstat.org/awards/index.cfm?fuseaction=cox-scholarship ## Volunteerism - Special Interest Group(SIG) The following is a note from Jonathan Kurlander <jlk (at) mn.rr.com> on the newly formed ASA group on volunteerism. Since this information is not available on any of the ASA websites yet, I thought it is worth include it in this newsletter. ############################ Dear All, Let me start by wishing all of you a healthy and prosperous new year. I am not one who typically becomes reflective at the changing of the calendar. I often feel that we should reflect throughout the year and appreciate our good fortune and progress and acknowledge our shortcomings whenever we can. I want to start out by addressing one of my shortcomings (and only coincidentally it?s a new year): I have been remiss at keeping you informed on the happenings of this SIG. I hope to do a better job of that and I?ll start right here, by talking about progress: Existing Projects: Darfur Human Rights Assessment Study - ALMOST COMPLETED The team has: ? Worked with Benetech to nearly finalize the language in the questionnaire ? Developed a sampling plan that Benetech will take to the field ? Begun assisting Benetech with establishing an Internal Review Board process to review the ethical issues in their work. The State Department has sent the team what appears to be the full dataset from their Darfur survey and enough metadata for us to begin to get busy with a re-analysis (which will be compared to some other Darfur studies). This will become a new SIG project and a team will be put together soon. Congratulations to David Banks, who lead this effort and team members Hormuzd Katki, Gary Shapiro, Paul Zador, Bill Seltzer, and Dylan Small who all worked diligently to get this done!!! - The Graduate Education For Vietnam Task Force The team has been keeping the discussion going with a large group of people to work towards developing a curriculum for recommended use. Several people have worked on a draft proposal and will be distributing this for feedback as well as summarize the discussions thus far. - The K-12 Curriculum Task Force The team has been focusing on a proposal drafted by several people from Truman University. Several discussions have ensued and it was suggested that the team refocus on studying existing curricula before analyzing this proposal. More discussion is needed on where this team should focus its energies. In the upcoming months, the team will be shoring up the review process and coming out with a proposal for a recommended curriculum or a method for achieving such. - Petitioning The Board for Creating the ASA Volunteer SIG - COMPLETED Congratulations to Shail Butani, Bob Starbuck and Rod Little!!! They put together a thorough petition which was submitted in the fall to the chair of the ASA Council of Sections. This petition will be reviewed by the board in early February. Projects in the Hopper: 1. Innocence Project Statistical Support Madeline deLone, executive director for the Innocence Project, contacted us in the fall and has indicated a need for statistical help. We will be putting together a team to help support this effort. 2. Election Irregularities Mary Batcher has put together a team to begin this project and is hoping to get this off the ground this month. 3. World Health David Banks is going to be putting together a team to help assist the WHO with their statistical needs. This will be getting off the ground very soon. 4. Volunteer SIG Website We will be focusing on getting this website up and running within the next couple of months. We would appreciate suggestions for content. Any input can be directed to me at jlk@mn.rr.com and Michael Last at Michael.Last@gmail.com 5. Developing a Rapid Response Team We will be assessing the need for a group of statisticians at the ready to help out with an international crisis. Whether it?s a Tsunami, the Avian Flu, or any other unimaginable tragedy, this should prove to be an interesting project and one that will need to cover a lot of brainstorming. All of you are welcome to join. Contact me if you have an interest in this project. The project will conclude with a written recommendation for putting together a team and efficiently utilizing it. Finally, two things for you to do: ? If any of you have interest in working on any of the upcoming projects, please contact me. ? If you know someone who is interested in joining this group, please have them contact me. Thank you for your interest in this group and let?s work hard to keep the momentum going on these projects. This is important stuff and we can truly make a difference!! Best wishes, Jonathan -- Matt Pocernich National Center for Atmospheric Research Research Applications Laboratory (303) 497-8312 _______________________________________________ Cowystats mailing list Cowystats@ucar.edu http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cowystats |
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