For awards that require nominations, please submit the name of the award, due date and application materials (excluding reference letters) to Dana Maltby by email at least a month in advance. Please make sure you follow the instructions for nomination materials exactly.
For awards that do not require nominations, please email the name of the award and due date to Dana Maltby, so that we can track applications and outcomes.
The UW–Madison Outstanding Women of Color Awards acknowledge and honor women of color among UW-Madison faculty, staff, students (undergraduate or post-baccalaureate) and in the Greater Madison community, who have made outstanding contributions in one or more of the following areas: social justice, activism, and advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged, marginalized populations; community service; scholarly research, writing, speaking and/or teaching on race, ethnicity, and indigeneity in U.S. society; community building on- or off-campus, to create an inclusive and respectful environment for all.
Deadline: September, 2020
Recognizes TA’s who have performed as outstanding teachers through their UW-Madison tenure.
Deadline: November, 2020
Award recognizes outstanding and inspirational performance on the part of TA’s with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience.
Deadline: November, 2020
Recognizes TA’s who perform exceptional service related to the educational mission of their department and our university (volunteerism, committee work, mentoring, etc.) in addition to the regular duties.
Deadline: November, 2020
Recognizes TA’s who bring extraordinary creativity to their work and have developed or adapted teaching methods or techniques in new and innovative ways.
Deadline: November, 2020
The winners of best paper competitions earn travel awards to ASA-sponsored conferences. Requires JSM registration. See each ASA section websites for details.
Deadline: December 15, 2020
- Facebook Fellowship Program
- NSF Graduate Fellowship Program
- National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship
- Ford Predoctoral Fellowship
- Hertz Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
- National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship
- John J. Bartko Scholarship Award
Keep an eye out on the emailing lists. There are plenty of job opportunites that are distributed through those channels. You can also ask your advisor for some direction as well.
There are a few places that maintain a list of jobs:
- International Biometric Society Young Statisticians Award
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics Travel Award
- Statistical Modeling Society
- WNAR Student Paper Competitions
- ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards
- Society for Clinical Trials Student Scholarship
- JSM student paper
- International Association for Official Statistics
- Advice for success from successful people in all different fields. Mostly indust ry oriented.
- Career advice from Terrance Tao, with a curated list of other links to life advice .
- Statistical Career Advice from Michael Steele. Somewhat broad but enli ghtening.
- Statistical Challenges General challenges that face statistics as a field