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UPCOMING EVENTS

5/15/2025 Webinar, Thursday 11am EST. John Kornak, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). "An Overview of Bayesian Image Analysis in Transformed Spaces". Click here to register.

OTHER CHAPTER-SPONSORED EVENTS

4/02/2025 We continue to sponsor Delaware Valley Science Fairs (DVSF), one of the largest science fairs for middle to high school students in the region. We need volunteer to judge student project poster for ASA Special Awards on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2005, at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. 

8/12-15/2025 We are happy to be a co-sponsor of The 13th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures (MCP–2025) at the Center City Campus of Temple University. For details, please visit www.isbiostat.org.

OTHER EVENTS IN THE AREA

 5/27-30/2025 Registration is underway for 2025 Penn Causal Inference Summer Institute. See programs, speakers and registration here. 

CHAPTER AWARDS

These annual awards recognize outstanding statisticians in the greater Philadelphia area for excellence in research,  practice, and teaching. Two student awards are also established for exceptional undergraduate and graduate students. Congratulations to 2024-2025 Awards recipients. Stay tuned for 2025-2026 Award Nomination announcements in October 2025!!! See award criteria and the past award recipients.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

We are often looking for Chapter members to assist with webinar presentation, K-12 training workshop, website update, local science fairs judging, and writing for Chapter Chatter Newsletter, etc. Contact us by email if you are interested. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO CHAPTER MEMBERS

  • ASA Philadelphia Chapter won the 2024 ASA Chapter Challenge on Giving Day for region 2!! 

    Congratulations to our Chapter and Chapter members and a BIG THANK YOU to those who contributed. This honor include the following prizes:

    • Bragging rights for one year
    • A visit from the ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein at our upcoming Spring social gather event
    • An ASA goody bag to use as a door prize at a chapter event
    • Announcement in Amstat News
    • Featured in "Statistical Moments with Ron" vlog
  • Newly elected ASA fellows for 2025 & 2024! 
    • Chenguang Wang – Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
    • Recai M. Yucel – Temple University
    • Luke J. Keele – University of Pennsylvania
  • Outstanding Chapter Service Award
    Congratulations to Scott McClintock and Zoe Zhang!!! They were recognized by ASA for this award at 2024 JSM!!!  We thank Scott and Zoe for their contributions to the Chapter over multiple years in various positions including secretary, vice president, president, and as the organizers for the Chapter awards and webinar.
    • Previous Service Award recipients in the Chapter include Bill Pikounis, Alexandra Hanlon, Cindy Gargano, Debra Panebianco, Paul Johansen, Devan Mehrotra, Albert Getson, Boris Iglewicz, and Jason Martin.
  • Jinbo Chen of the University of Pennsylvania was named as a 2024 Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  • Alisa Stephens-Shields of the University of Pennsylvania received 2024 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship by Harvard School of Public Health
  • Nandita Mitra of the University of Pennsylvania received 2025 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching by Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation.

           We would like to share your accomplishments, please let us know!!

    ASA CHAPTER CHATTERS 

    Check out the Summer 2024 issue of the newsletter for the last year's events and news by our Chapter!

    Contact Us for Questions or Comments!

      Webinar Series

      The webinars are organized to promote discussion, collaboration, and interactive learning in various fields of statistics, with topics ranging from teaching, statistical consultation, statistical applications as well as methodology and theory.

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      Mentoring Program

      In 2017, the Philadelphia Chapter mentoring program was launched. We surveyed the chapter members about their interest in becoming a mentee or mentor. Mentors and mentees then were matched based on their responses.

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      Career Events

      These events are designed to provide useful information for early-career statisticians or students who are interested in pursuing career in statistics. Statisticians from local or regional companies or colleges/universities will be invited to participate as panelists.

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      Member Highlights

      Members of the Philadelphia Chapter are often highlighted by ASA Amstat News or other ASA publications. Do you want to know their career paths or why they choose the fields of statistics? Check out their stories here!

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