CHAPTER NEWS
Careers Day in Statistics
San Antonio
Offers Diversity, Direction
T
he Southern California Chapter
Careers in Industry
held their annual Careers Day in
Chair:
Statistics on March 1 at the City
Rodney Jee of Fair Isaac Corporation Howard Monroe (right) congratulates
of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte,
Matthew Chang for his first-place award.
California. The event was sponsored by
Panelists:
the City of Hope, SCASA, RAND
Girish Aras, Director of Biostatistics,
Corporation, and the University of
Amgen
The Council of Texas Statisticians
California at Riverside. The day began
(COTS) recently sponsored an award
Paul Hance, Actuary, Transamerica
with three panels from which the 104
for the best use of statistics in a science
students could choose two to attend.
project at the ExxonMobil Texas Science
Keiko Powers, Senior Manager of
Each panel consisted of professionals
and Engineering Fair. Matthew Chang,
Corporate Research, J.D. Power and
from academia, government, and private
from Westlake High School in Austin,
Associates
industry. The panels were followed by
Texas, was awarded a $250 savings bond
lunch and the career fair.
for his first-place project, “Simulating
As with the panelist sessions, the
The panels and panelists included
the Evolution of Camouflage Using
career fair had a diverse mix of 13 exhib-
the following:
Genetic Algorithms.”
itors from health care, the pharmaceuti-
The fair was held in San Antonio,
cal industry, academia, consulting, risk
Careers in Academia
Texas, on March 29. Keying Ye, Peter
assessment, and government. The 13
Olofsson, John Schoolfield, Chris
Chair: exhibitors included the following:
Shang, and Howard Monroe from the
Harold Dyck of California State
San Antonio Chapter helped select three
University, San Bernadino
Amgen
senior-high division projects that showed
Panelists:
Kaiser Permanente
excellence in the use and knowledge of
Mark Hansen, Associate Professor of
City of Hope
statistical methods.
Statistics, University of California,
Second place and a $150 savings bond
Los Angeles
SCASA/ASA were awarded to Eric Van Dyk from
Churchill High School in San Antonio
Andrew Schaffner, Professor of
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
for his project, “Multi-Tasking: Does
Statistics, California Polytechnic State
Transamerica
Cell Phone Use Affect Performance?”
University, San Luis Obispo
Third place and a $50 savings bond
UC Riverside
Jessica Utts, Professor of Statistics,
were awarded to the team of Juan
University of California, Irvine
USC Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Cano and Fernando Rosas, both from
program
The High School of the Americas in El
Theodore Younglove, Director of Paso, for their project, “The Riemann
Institutional Research and Planning,
UCI Zeta Function.”
Antelope Valley College
Los Angeles Chapter of the Association
Careers in Government /
of Computing Machinery
Mid-Michigan
Public Policy Research
RAND Corporation
The mid-Michigan Chapter of the ASA
Chair:
held its semi-annual business meet-
Bob Newcomb of the University of
U.S. Census Bureau
ing and presentation on April 9, 2009.
California, Irvine (retired)
Christine Clark, past chair of the Council
UCLA Department of Statistics
of Chapters Governing Board gave a talk
Panelists:
titled “Data Monitoring Committees,
John Adams, Senior Statistician,
This year’s Careers Day in Statistics
Expert Panels, and Statisticians.”
RAND Corporation
was another success. It provided students
The next chapter presentation will be
with help in deciding what statistical
Nancy M. Gordon, Associate Director
held at Saginaw Valley State University,
career they would like to pursue, along
for Strategic Planning and Innovation,
and Sastry Pantula, 2009 president-elect
with the opportunity to meet prospec-
U.S. Census Bureau
of the ASA, has agreed to be the guest
tive employers in several fields. n
speaker for the meeting. More informa-
tion will be announced in an upcoming
issue of Amstat News. n
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