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UPCOMING EVENTS

 2/13/2025 Webinar, Thursday 11am EST. Lei Xie, PhD, Hunter College, The City University of New York. "Advancing Programmable Human Digital Twins for Substance Use Disorder Drug Discovery." Click here to register! 

 4/24/2025 Chapter Spring In-Person Social Gathering. We are excited to organize our long-waited in-person social gathering at the Villanova Inn. This beautiful venue is the perfect place to see your friends and colleagues in the spring time. Please SAVE THE DATE and stay tuned for more info coming soon.

OTHER CHAPTER-SPONSORED EVENTS

 2/22/2025 We will be co-sponsoring a full day training workshop on "A Deep Dive into Git" (& Github) organized by Villanova University's Graduate Program in Applied Statistics and Data Science. Please contract Dr. Paul Bernhardt for more info and to register.

 3/18/2025 We will be sponsoring Montgomery County Science Fairs. Please contract Dr. Paul Bernhardt if you are interested in serving as a judge.

 3/28-30/2025 We will be co-sponsoring 2025 DataFest Philly in Villanova University. The registration is open now! Please contract Dr. Michael Posner if you are interested in serving as judges and/or consultants.

 4/02/2025 We will continue to sponsor Delaware Valley Science Fairs (DVSF), one of the largest science fairs for middle to high school students in the region. We will 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. Please contact us if you are interested. 

 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.

ASA CHAPTER CHATTERS 

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

OTHER EVENTS IN THE AREA

 4/7/2025 Registration is underway for the 17th Annual University of Pennsylvania Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials Conference. This year's topic is: Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Clinical Trials: New Methods and Applications. 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 studentsCongratulations to 2024-2025 Awards recipients. Stay tuned for 2025-2026 Award Nomination announcements October 2025!!! See award criteria and the past award recipients.

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 (either virtual or in person) from the ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein at an upcoming chapter event
    • An ASA goody bag to use as a door prize at a chapter event
    • Announcement in Amstat News
  • Newly elected ASA fellows for 2024! 
    • 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.
  • 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 2024 L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics by Boston University School of Public Health.

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

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. 

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        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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