Mel Kollander, an ASA Fellow, founding member of the Washington Statistical Society, and longtime statistician at the Environmental Protection Agency, passed away on September 1, 2026.
Environmental Protection Agency
Simone Gray
After graduating from the University of Miami, Simone Gray became aware of the critical shortage of math and science teachers in high schools across the United States and became a tutor and mentor before going on to become a full-time mathematics teacher at a low-performing high school in southwest Florida. Gray wanted to continue learning about both math and science, however and decided to leave teaching to pursue a PhD in statistical science at Duke University. Today, she is a senior statistician in the Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.