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UPCOMING EVENTS

11/09/2025 6:30-7:30PM EST Virtual Career Panel for Master's Degree Students in Statistics, Biostatistics, and Data Science. The four invited panelists are alumni from Villanova, Temple, and Drexel Universities. 

11/13/2025 11AM EST Webinar Venturing Beyond Genomics: Integrating Chromatin, Transcript, and Protein Layers in Single Cells, by Dr. Avi Srivastava, The Wistar Institute. Contact us for more info and registration.

OTHER CHAPTER-SPONSORED EVENT

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

10/31/2025 2025 PhilaSUG (SAS User Group) Onsite Meeting will take place in University of Pennsylvania. The deadline for abstract submission is September 30. Click here for more details. 

12/8-12/2025 8th Annual Deming Conference On Applied Statistics will be held in Atlantic City, NJ. You can find more information about the program, submit an abstract for a poster presentation, and register for the conference online by visiting this link.

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. Nominations for 2025-2026 Awards is now open!!! Please submit the nomination by January 16, 2026. Email us if you have any questions about the awards and the nomination process. See award criteria and the past award recipients.

CHAPTER OFFICERS ELECTION

Chapter officers are elected annually with the new term starts August 1. Nonimation for candidates opens around mid May. Please email us if you have any questions about the chapter officers election or have comments/suggestions for future Chapter activities. 

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. The 2025 ASA Giving Day November 21 is coming up soon! Please consider donating for any amounts you want! We hope we can win this honor for two years in a row and earn a visit from ASA Executive Director Ron Wasserstein again! Check out this feature on "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 Bill Huber!!! Bill is recognized by ASA for this award at 2025 JSM!!!  We thank Bill for his contributions to the Chapter over multiple years in various positions including vice president and treasurer, as well his continuded efforts advising the current chapter officers.
  • Prior Service Award recipients include Bill Pikounis, Alexandra Hanlon, Cindy Gargano, Debra Panebianco, Paul Johansen, Devan Mehrotra, Albert Getson, Boris Iglewicz, Jason Martin, Scott McClintock, and Zoe Zhang. 

           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, workshop for K-12 educators, website or social media posting, local science fairs or DataFest judging, and writing for Chapter News for the AmStatNews magazine or Chapter Chatter Newsletter, etc. Contact us by email if you are interested. 

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      ASA CHAPTER CHATTERS 

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

      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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