Statistics Department graduates have an excellent record of placement and further advancement. The demand for well-trained statisticians at both the Master's and Ph.D. levels is strong. The solid grounding students receive here in theoretical, applied, and computational statistics makes them especially valued in scientific, industrial and government settings where issues are complex and data are often difficult to collect or incomplete and where there are no easy answers.

Graduates employed in government and industry have been involved in many interesting and important projects. Dean Follmann (Ph.D., 1986) and Todd Sahlroot (Ph.D., 1985) do research on clinical trials and statistical modeling of biomedical data for the National Institutes of Health. At the Rand Corporation, Lionel Galway (Ph.D., 1988) has looked at the trends in jury verdicts in civil liability cases to see if monetary awards have increased significantly over the years. Sybil Crawford (Ph.D., 1989) is a Senior Scientist at the New England Research Institutes (NERI). She recently won a Young Investigator award from the North American Menopause Society for her work on the relative roles of behavioral factors and menopause in weight gain. At the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Ruth Etzioni (Ph.D., 1990) has studied bone marrow transplant patients and techniques, and screening tools and outcome measures for prostate cancer treatment. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mark Fitzgerald (Ph.D., 1995) has developed a graphical tool to assist engineers at Proctor & Gamble in exploring dependencies among components of manufacturing processes. Cristina Ilangakoon (M.S., 1996) works for Marketing and Planning Systems, a market research firm whose clients are Fortune 100 companies. As a Reasearch Scientist at CTB/McGraw-Hill, Richard Patz (Ph.D., 1996) examines national trends in educational performance, and develops models for analyzing and comparing state- and national-level standardized educational tests.

Other graduates in the past decade have chosen careers in academia and are beginning to take on leadership roles in the scholarly community. Kathy Blackmond Laskey (Ph.D., 1986) is an associate professor of Systems Engineering at George Mason University, where she works on problems in Bayesian decision theory and machine learning. Allan Rossman (Ph.D., 1990) is chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dickinson College, and has developed the Workshop Statistics approach to teaching elementary statistics through activities. Tom Short (Ph.D., 1992) teaches Statistics at Villanova University, and co-directs with Allan Rossman the NSF-funded STATS project, which helps mathematicians with little statistics background teach statistics. Giovanni Parmigiani (Ph.D., 1991) is on the faculty at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences (ISDS) at Duke University, where he is collaborating on a comprehensive model of breast cancer risk. He also works on fast computing algorithms for model selection. Dalene Stangl (Ph.D., 1992), also on the ISDS faculty, recently earned the W. J. Younden award for work on Bayesian hierarchical models published in the journal Statistics in Medicine. As an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Ohio State University, Mario Peruggia (Ph.D., 1991) studies applications and computing methods in Bayesian statistics, and has recently published a monograph on discrete iterated function systems. Elizabeth Slate (Ph.D., 1992) joined the faculty at Cornell University, and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.

Some Companies and Private Agencies Employing M.S. & Ph.D. Graduates

Alcoa
Ayerst Labs Incorporated
Bell Communications Research
Bowman Gray Medical Center
Calgon
Ciba-Geigy
CTB/McGraw-Hill
Deloitte, Haskins, and Sells
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Free Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
General Telephone and Electronics (GTE)
IBM
Lubrizol Corporation
Management Science Associates
Marketing and Planning Systems
Massachusetts General Hospital
Morgan-Stanley
New England Research Institute
Price-Waterhouse
Pfizer
The Rand Corporation
Salomon Brothers
Syntex
United Airlines

Some Government Agencies Employing M.S. & Ph.D. Graduates

National Institutes of Health
National Security Agency
U.S. Bureau of the Census
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Some Academic Institutions Employing Ph.D. Graduates

Case Western Reserve University
Cornell University
Dickinson College
Duke University
Harvard University
George Mason University
Johns Hopkins University
National Taiwan University
Ohio State University
Queen's University
San Diego State University
SUNY at Albany
Texas A&M University
Trinity University
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pennsylvania
University of Waterloo
Villanova University

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