Awareness month -- Mathematics, Statistics

TL;DR -- April is Math/Stat awareness month; we will recognize that effort in April and throughout the year. 

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Did you know it's Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month?

Our emphasis on technology includes the applied fields of mathematics and its offshoot, statistics. We have even suggested that STEM become MSET+ which would put mathematics into its position as the basis, in a sense. "a basis" would be more appropriate, as we are talking about a human-based activity despite some claims of proponents of GenAI/LLM. 

So we are aware. However, that April is the awareness month for Math/Stat goes back to the time of President Reagan (1986) and has been honored since then. In 2017, the American Statistical Association merged their effort with that of the American Mathematical Society to create the MSAM which is a "program of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM)—a collaborative effort of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics."

We will support that effort every April as well as during the year with respect to the technical aspect of our work. 

Remarks: Modified: 04/17/2025

04/17/2025