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DePARTMeNTS
Science Policy News
Data-Driven Decisionmaking and the
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Department of Education p. 29
ASA 2009 Poster and Project Winners
This column is written to inform ASA members about what the ASA is doing to
promote the inclusion of statistics in policymaking and the funding of statistics
research. To suggest science policy topics for the ASA to address, contact ASA
Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson at
pierson@amstat.org.
Data-Driven
Contributing Editor
Decisionmaking and the
Steve Pierson earned his PhD in physics from the
Department of education
University of Minnesota. He spent eight years in the
Physics Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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and later became head of government relations at the
American Physical Society.
Pierson
ASA 2009
Poster and Project
Master’s Notebook
What Do Trees, Mining, and Random Walks
Have in Common? p. 33
W nners
This column is written for statisticians with master’s degrees and highlights areas
of employment that will benefit statisticians at the master’s level. Comments
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and suggestions should be sent to Keith Crank, ASA research and graduate
education manager, at
keith@amstat.org.
Contributing Editor
Theresa Gilligan is a senior health outcomes analyst at
memBeR News
RTI-Health Solutions. She earned her Master of Science
in analytics from the Institute of Advanced Analytics at
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North Carolina State University and a bachelor’s degree
in psychology from Appalachian State University. She 49 Section News
serves as the vice president of the Analytics Alumni
Society and is a member of the Analytics Industry
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