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2024
November
August
- An Interview with Claude about the Future Collaboration of Actuaries and Artificial Intelligence
- Small Program, Big Dream: Our Journey to the 2024 SOA Student Research Case Study Challenge
- Enhancing Actuarial Education: Integrating the SOA Research Challenge with GitHub Classroom
- A Metric for Improved Teaching of Hard Parts of Courses
June
- An Interview with Wenjun Zhu
- The Battle to Transform the Actuarial Profession in South Africa: The University Frontline
- An Actuarial Science Program: A Journey from an Introductory to an Advanced Curriculum
April
- An Interview with Weili Lu
- The Second Simon Conference Takes Place at Michigan State University
- Greetings from the Incoming E&R Chair
2023
November
- The Chairperson’s Year in Review
- Growing Global Actuarial Capacity to Support Sustainable Economic Development
- Actuarial Education: Fifty Years of Evolution
- The Syllabus as an Instructional Aid for Complex Problem-Solving
- How Online Peer Assessment Platforms Can Enhance Student Engagement and Learning in Actuarial Science
- Recognizing Excellence: The SOA Outstanding Educator Award in Actuarial Science
- Beyond the Classroom: The Value of Professional Development and Student Engagement
- The Rewards of Teaching and Mentorship in the Actuarial Profession
- Two Stories of Career Transitions
- American Academy of Actuaries Announces Academy Award for Research for Outstanding Public Policy Research from an Actuarial Perspective by an Early Career Scholar
- Drake Risk & Opportunity Forum Connects Professionals
- Actuarial Teaching Conference: Using Keywords to Improve Learning and Instruction
- Fireside Chat with Monserrat Guillen Estany
- The Actuarial Science Program at the University of Bahrain
2022
November
- Message from the Outgoing E&R Chair
- Greetings from the New E&R Chair
- An Interview with Tim Boonen
- Call for Papers for the Journal of Insurance Issues
August
- Developing an Actuarial Science Program: It Takes a Village
- How We Became the Most Affordable UCAP-AC Program in Ohio
- An Introduction to the Journal of Risk and Insurance
- AAS Call for Papers
June
- Fireside Chat with Edward W. Frees
- Location-agnostic Professional Experience Course in Actuarial Science
- A Proposal for Good Actuarial Science Teaching
- Risk Analytics Symposium: Actuarial Perspectives on Climate Change
April
- Notes from the E&R Chair
- Don’t Miss the Living to 100 Research Symposium
- Looking Ahead: Discrimination, Artificial Intelligence, Pandemics, Climate Risks (and a Call for Papers)
- Call for Papers: “Frontiers in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management”
2021
November
- An Interview with Ruodu Wang
- Managing Investment Risks in Contractual Designs
- Actuarial Problem Variety for Syllabi, Pedagogy, and Remediation
- Actuarial Open Educational Resources
August
- Insurance Data Science: A Collection of Cutting-Edge Research in the Annals of Actuarial Science
- Solvency Regulation of Insurance Companies
- New Report Examines How Actuaries Can Survive and Thrive in the Insurtech Age
- The Clock Ticks Faster
June
- Drake Risk and Insurance Workshop on Catastrophe Risk
- Enhancing the Pedagogical Utility of Tables in Actuarial Teaching
- DePaul University Invites You to ARC 2021
April
- Recognizing Future Academic Leaders: The Creation of an Early Career Award in Actuarial Science
- Risk Transfer: Why Insurance Is Not an Option
- Academic Integrity in Online Education
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