The PDF version of the August 2026 IMS Bulletin is online now: download the complete PDF. You can also read selected articles at https://imstat.org/news/. Contents include: US National Academy of Sciences member James Robins IMS Council election results Members’ news: Brian Ripley and Luke Tierney among Rousseeuw Prize …

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A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_54_3/aos_54_3.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

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The American Statistical Association celebrates individuals in academia, industry, and government for their work and dedication to the statistics discipline. Below is a list of the IMS members among those who are receiving ASA’s 2026 awards. The recipients will be recognized at the ceremony following the ASA President’s Address (August…

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Takashi Kumagai is the incoming Editor of Probability Surveys, as recommended by the Joint IMS/Bernoulli Society Publications Management Committee. His term will run January 1, 2027 to December 31, 2029. Nathanaël Berestycki is the new Probability Editor of the IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks series, until December 31, 2029.…

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Daniela Witten has had a superb, if not entirely spontaneous, sabbatical experience. She explains: Two years ago, I visited a dear friend who had recently, and with very little planning, uprooted her life in New York City—home, job, decades of friendships—to move with her husband and three young boys to…

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Our contributing editor Marianne Huebner teams up with Michael Wallace, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, exploring the question of measurement error in data collections and statistical remedies.   I recently had the opportunity to participate in collecting data on grip strength in athletes. At first, I was nervous, since…

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