Sharon Lohr first encountered statistics during her senior year and credits her undergraduate adviser, Thomas Jager, for steering her toward it in graduate school. In 2014, she became the first woman to give the Deming Lecture. Today, she is a freelance statistical consultant and writer, following a 25-year career in academia.
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Q&A With Educators
We interviewed a handful of statistics teachers to find out who inspired them, where they get their best teaching tools, and what they think is the most challenging part of being a teacher.
Nick Horton, An Advocate for Modernizing the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum
Nick Horton is a professor of statistics at Amherst College and a recipient of numerous awards, among them the Robert V. Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics.
Member Spotlight: Mohammed Shayib
At age five, ASA member Mohammed Shayib fled with his family from their home in northern Palestine. Shayib went on to earn his PhD from Texas Tech and co-author Applied Statistical Methods. Read more about him here.
Member Spotlight: Bo Zhang
Bo Zhang is a senior data scientist at IBM.
Michigan Tech Student Talks About Future Career in Genetics
The ASA shines the spotlight on member Shurong Fang, a PhD student at Michigan Technological University. Read on to find out how she has been working to develop efficient approaches to investigating the genetic association between human genes and complex diseases such as diabetes.
Statistics at the White House
Victor Morin talks about his career path and the many turns he took along the way, from the Navy’s Officer Candidate School to the White House to Boeing to GE to Amazon.com to Ecolab Research Center.
Member Spotlight: Susan Gruber
This month’s member spotlight is on Susan Gruber, a chemist, computer scientist, teacher, mom, and biostatistician.
Using Statistics to Find Real-Life Solutions
When it comes to statistics, ASA member and IBM Chief Statistician Jing Shyr thinks of the bigger picture. Read about how joining the Smarter Cities Challenge helped her solve real problems using statistics.