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>We congratulate Rebecca Blank on her confirmation as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce, with oversight responsibility for the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau. Among her many public service contributions, she served as a member of the CNSTAT panel that produced the report Measuring Poverty: A New Approach (1995), chaired the CNSTAT panel that produced the report Measuring Racial Discrimination (2004), and served on the Advisory Committee for CNSTAT’s parent unit, the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE). She was a senior fellow at Brookings and before that dean of the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is giving the President’s Invited Address at the August 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC.

REPORT RELEASED

>Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty, the final report of the Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty, chaired by Claude Canizares, MIT, and Sally Shaywitz, Yale, and including CNSTAT member Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University, was publicly released in prepublication format on June 2, 2009. The report includes original research results from two surveys. The study was joint between the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine of the NRC Policy and Global Affairs Division and CNSTAT and funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resources Statistics. The prepublication report is available for purchase and reading at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12062).

THE FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM—
RECOGNIZING ITS CONTRIBUTIONS; MOVING IT FORWARD

Agenda, Posters, Registration List, PowerPoints, and Speaker Bios are available from the
May 8, 2009, Committee on National Statistics and
American Academy of Political and Social Science Symposium

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