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October Amstat News October 2012 • Issue #424 AMSTATNEWS The Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association • http://magazine.amstat.org Recollections Thoughts AboutAbout JSMJSM inin& & SanSan DiegoDiego Many Honored at Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony ALSO: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Statistician Greg Ridgeway New Deputy Director of National Institute of Justice AMSTATNews OctOber 2012 • Issue #424 features Executive Director 3 President’s Corner Ron Wasserstein: [email protected] Associate Executive Director and Director of Operations 5 Member Spotlight Stephen Porzio: [email protected] Susan Gruber Director of Science Policy 6 ASA Commends NSF for Initiative, Commitment to Increasing Steve Pierson: [email protected] Statistics Profile Director of Education 6 ISS-2012 on Longitudinal Data Analysis a Success Rebecca Nichols [email protected] 7 Statistics for Policymakers Managing Editor Megan Murphy: [email protected] Statistical Modeling to Address the Problem of Illegal Immigration Production Coordinators/Graphic Designers Melissa Muko Gotherman: [email protected] 8 Statistician Greg Ridgeway New Deputy Director of National Kathryn Wright: [email protected] Institute of Justice Publications Coordinator 10 NSF Renews SAMSI for Five Years Val Nirala: [email protected] 11 ASA Records Viewable Online Advertising Manager Claudine Donovan: [email protected] 12 Meet NCHS Director, Edward Sondik Contributing Staff Members 14 JASA Highlights Kathleen Wert • Rebecca Nichols • Eric Sampson Studies of Immune Response and False Discovery Rate Amstat News welcomes news items and letters from readers on matters Featured in September Issue of interest to the association and the profession. 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