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  • Deadline for 2023 Natrella Scholarships Approaching! Please Apply Now!

    The deadline for the 2023 Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarships is approaching, but there is still time to apply!  The scholarship fund will support participation of two students at the Quality and Productivity Research Conference to be held in Houston, TX from June 5-8, 2023. Applications are due on March 17, 2023.

    Scholarship recipients each receive a $3500 grant, a $500 travel stipend, complimentary registration for the conference and the pre-conference short course, and an opportunity to present their research work at the conference. The scholarships are presented annually by the ASA Quality and Productivity Section to honor the distinguished career of Mary G. Natrella, author of the well-known NBS/NIST handbook, Experimental Statistics, along with her husband Joseph. 

    Application is open to full-time students who are currently pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in an accredited college or university, and who have a demonstrated interest in applications of statistics to quality and productivity.

    Application instructions and forms can be found on the Natrella Scholarship web page. If you have any questions, please contact the Chair of the Scholarship Committee.

  • 2023 Student Paper Award Competition Winners

    Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Mental Health Statistics Section Student Paper Award competition:

    Richard Watson, NC State University
    On Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation in Causal Graphs

    Daiqi Gao, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Fusing Individualized Treatment Rules Using Auxiliary Outcomes

    Jizhou Kang, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Flexible Bayesian Modeling for Longitudinal Binary Responses

    Awards will be presented to the winner at the MHSS Mixer at JSM 2023.