Description: A survey of 13 universities in the U.S. and Canada indicates a wide variety of actuarial science topics of current research, as well as proposed future research.

Description: A wrap-up of the year’s activities, including supporting the educational needs of membership, focusing on sponsoring research, and developing community.

Description: This article discusses a study of the impact of the drug infliximab on Crohn's disease patients. This study had been approved in response to an SOA request for proposals for research on the health cost and utilization effects of a specific prescription drug.

Description: In this article, the author discusses the development of actuarial theory and principles in China and the influence the SOA has had on their education system.

Description: In her address at the 1997 Society of Actuaries annual meeting, incoming president Anna Rappaport gave high priority to 'further developing multidisciplinary joint ventures with other professional associations and academia, including facilitating the exchange of ideas between academics and practitioners.' This article describes the results of that endeavor.

Description: Understanding the importance of networking is the first step toward achieving a fulfilling and rewarding professional career and personal life.

Description: The Society of Actuaries now has more than 600 members in Asia. This article describes how the SOA is increasing its outreach to members in Asia by establishing the Asia Committee, and by approving a three-year extension of the SOA’s support for the actuarial program at Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

Description: In early 1989, the Society of Actuaries appointed a Task Force on Strengthening Relationships Between Universities and the Actuarial Profession. The charge of the Task Force was to explore the relationships between the actuarial profession and universities in the United States and Canada and recommend how they can be strengthened to the benefit of both the actuarial profession and the universities. This article summarizes the Task Force's recommendations that were approved by the Society of Actuaries Board of Governors. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 1991 Vol. 1.

Description: This article explains why the time is right to move the Society of Actuaries education and examination [E&E] system to a university-centered actuarial education system.

Description: Intoduction to an issue of The Actuary focusing on the Manhart case, in which a controversial brief was presented to the Supreme Court by the SOA and AAA.