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. At the Rand Corporation, Ph.D. recipient Lionel Galway has looked at the trends in jury verdicts in civil liability cases to see if monetary awards have increased significantly over the years. While employed at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sybil Crawford, Ph.D., worked on the government's consumer expenditure survey which is used to gather information about how people earn and spend their money. At the National Institutes of Health, Dean Follmann, Ph.D., and Todd Sahlroot, Ph.D., do research on clinical trials and statistical modeling of biomedical data. While at Decision Sciences Consortium, Kathy Blackmond Laskey, Ph.D., has analyzed data from the national pesticide survey of well water for the EPA and assisted in developing architecture for probabilistic reasoning in artificial intelligence systems.

Other graduates in the past decade have chosen careers in academia and are beginning to take on leadership roles in the scholarly community. Elizabeth Stasny, an associate professor at Ohio State University, is a member of the ASA's Committee on Law and Justice Statistics. An associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Kathryn Chaloner is recognized for her theoretical research in Bayesian experimental design and is working on a 5-year clinical trial for AIDS treatment. As co-director of the Epidemiology Data Center at the University of Pittsburgh, Sheryl Kelsey , Ph.D., oversees a center which has been involved in more than 40 research studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. Cora Buckley, an M.S. graduate, is a biostatistician at the Biostatistics Center at George Washington University where she works on multicenter clinical trials. Alan Rossman, assistant professor, was a part of a study group at Dickinson College to improve methods of teaching statistics to liberal arts students. Leonardo Epstein, an assistant professor in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, is participating in a project on estimating the number of AIDS cases among people who had tested negative for HIV. Diane Saphire, an associate professor at Trinity University, is looking at learning disabled students who are gifted, trying to understand what distinguishes these gifted students from their disabled counterparts.

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

Food and Drug Administration
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
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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