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GRADUATE PROGRAM UPDATE Lynne Seymour | Graduate Coordinator

In Fall 2014, there were 75 full-time students in our graduate programs, not counting the MS students who are primarily in other programs on campus. Though our numbers of unsupported students have grown in the last year, our numbers of supported students have also grown to the point that we no longer have enough room in the graduate offices for everyone who is supported.

Job placement opportunities continue to strengthen for our graduates, thanks in part to the efforts of our Statistics Department alumni, Hicham El Hassani (MS, 01) and Yijie Xue (PhD, 09) at LexisNexis in Atlanta, and UGA alumna Misty Ritchie (PhD, 99 in Sociology) of Wells-Fargo in Charlotte, NC. All have been in the department in the past year to recruit, interview, and provide feedback to our students.

We will soon begin a new web page to list job placement information for each year for both our MS and PhD students. Fall 2014 marked the first semester of State Farm's MAGNet program, which trains our MS students in the data analytics skills which State Farm needs. Three students were hired as interns for the first year, and more are expected to join in the coming year.

as well as taking roles in organizing invited and other sessions at major statistics conferences around the world.

Kim Love-Myers has been a participant this academic year in the Writing Fellows program through UGA’s Center for Teaching and Learning. The goal of the program is to enhance faculty efforts to incorporate writing more fully into the curriculum. Fellows meet about once a month, and each Fellow receives a small stipend. Kim plans to use her experience to enhance the writing aspect of students training in the Statistical Consulting Center. Pengsheng Ji, meanwhile, has been participating this year in the Teaching Academy’s Fellows program. This program pairs junior faculty members interested in improving their teaching with experienced instructors from the campus community.

A particularly proud moment for the department came in October, when we learned that a team of students from the Statistical Consulting Center, led by SCC Director Jaxk Reeves, had won first place in the SAS Data Analytics Shootout. More than 60 teams from around the United States participated in the competition, so this was a great accomplishment. Team members, led by Wenbo Wu and Jaxk Reeves, flew to Las Vegas,

where they had the opportunity to interact with other competitors, as well as representatives from SAS and many leading companies. Our alumni also continue to succeed. Two former PhD students – Susmita Datta of the University of Louisville and Sanjay Shete of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center – were elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Congratulations to them both! And to everyone – let us know of your accomplishments and achievements, so that we can highlight them on our website. Together with Abhyuday Mandal and colleagues from Georgia Tech and Emory, I have been working to plan the first annual Georgia Statistics Day, to take place in October 2015. The idea of this new initiative is to bring together faculty and students from the three institutions, in order to foster interactions and a more prominent statistics community in the north Georgia region. The first event will be held here at UGA, and will rotate among the three universities from year to year. If you are in the area, keep your eyes open for more news of this one-day workshop – we’d love to see you.

While we have many reasons to

LETTER FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD (continued) Nicole Lazar | Interim Department Head

be proud, there are also many ways in which we can become better. A good strategic plan can help with this, and we are working on improving and fine tuning our current plan. Attracting the best faculty and graduate students will also help, but competition is stiff. Endowed professorships and graduate fellowships can help, and if you are in a position to consider helping us with this, I encourage you to explore this possibility with the Office of Development & Alumni Relations in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Donations, large or small, have increasingly become critical to maintain programs of high quality, and we are very appreciative for your continued support.

Finally, we had a great event for alumni at the JSM in Boston. Many current and former students and faculty gathered for light refreshments, drinks, and conversation. It was good to see many of you again, and to meet others for the first time. We hope to repeat this success in Seattle.

I hope that you enjoy the articles in this Newsletter, and look forward to meeting many of you during the next year, either here in Athens or anywhere else on the planet.

Nicole Lazar

Kim Love-Myers 2014-2015 Center for Teaching and Learning Writing Fellow

The CTL Writing Fellows program was established in 2007 by the Office of the Vice President of Instruction; up to twelve faculty selected as CTL Writing Fellows meet regularly to discuss the most effective ways to teach and respond to student writing.

Christine Franklin Center for Teaching and Learning Teacher of the Week

CTL recognizes Teacher of the Week recipients as individuals who are making a difference in their students’ lives as learners and citizens of the University community. This significant honor is meant to highlight the superb teachers who inspire students as well as colleagues at UGA.

ASA Founders Award The Founders Award is among the highest honors that the ASA bestows upon its members who have rendered distinguished and long-term service to the association.

Nicole Lazar

Selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Each year, the ASA names select individuals as Fellows. According to ASA, "the designation of Fellow has been a superlative honor … for nearly 100 years."

Pengsheng Ji 2014-2015 Teaching Academy Fellow

The Teaching Academy Fellows Program is an early career mentoring program at the University of Georgia. Only twenty faculty members are selected for the Fellows Program which is coordinated by UGA’s Teaching Academy with funding support from the Office of the Provost and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Since the last newsletter where we listed our graduates from 2013, we proudly graduated the following students with a BS degree in Statistics: Spring 2014 – Obiamaka Achukwu, Matthew Alexander, Dean Baraso, Audrey Brasuell, Doretha Canion, Reina Chau, Mary Martha Clark, Tyna Dao, Christopher Helms, Lewis Jones, Nathain Karner, Pia Kolmers, Hyejin Park, Melissa Pitt, and Benjamin Washington; Summer 2014 – Joe Fang. Matt, Chris, Lewis, and Ben are now all enrolled in our graduate program. Lewis is part of a collaborative program with State Farm Insurance.

Our students continue to be inducted into honor societies such as the National Statistical Honor Society Mu Sigma Rho, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Beta Kappa. Some students have continued with graduate school and others have joined the work force using

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM UPDATE Christine Franklin | Undergraduate Coordinator

the skill-set they gained as Statistics majors. Our students are sought out as future employees in this data-centric world. Congratulations to all our graduates! If you haven’t already, browse our undergraduate website. Here is the link: http://www.stat.uga.edu/undergraduate-students Our undergraduate program continues to thrive, with UGA students recognizing the importance of a background in Statistics – this is seen in the increasing number of both majors (approximately 120 students) and minors (approximately 100). We continue to find ways to improve our undergraduate program, which for the first time in the history of the department, is larger than our graduate program. This past year, a committee worked diligently to examine the desired program goals and

learning outcomes for both our undergraduate and graduate students. This committee discussed whether our current courses are meeting the goals and learning outcomes, as well as how to assess these learning outcomes. Our year-long Capstone course (STAT 5010-5020) continues to provide our undergraduates the opportunity to apply the knowledge they've gained to real-life research problems. This current academic year we have our largest class ever with 32 students. In May 2014, we awarded the second Kermit Hutcheson Best Capstone Student Award to Nathain Karner. Congratulations to Nathain! We continue to have several students taking advantage of internship opportunities. We welcome any leads on summer and academic year internship possibilities for our students.

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