Mei-Cheng Wang’s journey began in Taiwan, where she earned her bachelor’s in mathematics from National Tsing Hua University. In 1981, she moved to the University of California at Berkeley to pursue a PhD in statistics. After completing her PhD, she joined the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where she has been a faculty member ever since.
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L. Adrienne Cupples
After earning her undergraduate degree in American studies, L. Adrienne Cupples married and worked for several years. But in 1968, she decided to take math courses at night school “just for the heck of it.” She is now professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. For the past 30 years, she has been involved in genetic epidemiology in neurological diseases, mentored many students on their doctoral research, and won numerous awards.
ASA-AAAS Mass Media Fellow Shares What She Learned
Diana Cai reported from STAT—a Boston-based health and medicine news outlet—as an ASA-AAAS Mass Media Fellow last summer.