Haitao Chu was honored by the Emory University Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Eastern North American Region of the Biometric Society annual meeting in March.
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Katherine L. Monti
Katherine L. Monti’s life has been shaped by variability and a love for mathematics. Born in Chicago and raised in multiple locations, Monti developed an early interest in math. During college summers, she worked for The University of North Carolina Department of Biostatistics, where her work with programming and statistical analysis sparked her interest in biostatistics. Despite initially resisting the idea, Monti eventually earned a PhD in biostatistics from UNC. Her career spanned teaching, industry, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals, and she became known for her humorous and educational in-house newsletters. Monti’s persistence in challenging assumptions led to key successes in pharma. She also made significant contributions to the ASA, serving in several leadership roles. Now retired, Monti reflects on a fulfilling career that perfectly matched her passion for statistics and education.
Jill A. Dever
Jill Dever spent the first 22 years of her life in the suburbs of Louisville, Kentucky. Her interest in statistics started with her parents and math flashcards at the kitchen table. Later, her brother heightened her interest in math and taught her computer programming logic by sharing fun facts and projects from school. However, it was her University of Louisville professor who encouraged her to investigate biostatistics, owing to her interest in medical-based TV shows. So, off to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill she went to earn her MS in biostatistics and later the University of Maryland to earn her PhD. She ended up at RTI International, where she has been for 25 years. One of her greatest achievements is coauthoring two books, including Practical Tools for Sampling and Weighting.
UNC Biostatistics Program Offers Undergraduate Students Opportunity
The program is the largest undergraduate degree in biostatistics in the country, graduating 20 or more students per class in recent years.
Amy Herring
Amy Herring always asked questions and never said no to an opportunity, even when it involved being a team statistician for her high-school basketball team. Now, she loves to bring research topics into the classroom and is consistently on the lookout for potential statistics scholars to recruit.
Marie Davidian
Having received very theoretical training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Davidian learned through “trial by fire” how to be an effective applied statistician-collaborator. Her first book, Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data, co-authored with David Giltinan, is considered a seminal text on nonlinear mixed effects modeling and pharmacokinetic analysis.
Making New Year’s Transitions
New ASA President Lisa LaVange reflects on the job she is leaving, the one she is about to assume, and her tenure as president.
SAMSI Announces 2013–14 Programs
Here, Richard Smith, director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, talks about the two programs for the 2013–2014 year: Computational Methods in Social Science and Low-Dimensional Structure in High-Dimensional Systems.
NC Universities Awarded NIH Grant
A team of statisticians and clinicians was recently awarded a $12.5 million, five-year P01 Research Program Project grant from the National Cancer Institute.
UNC Department of Biostatistics Turns 60
The department of biostatistics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill turned 60 in October. More than 300 faculty, students, friends, and alumni gathered at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center’s Carolina Club for a five-day celebration that included lectures on cutting-edge developments in biostatistical theory and applications.