Alumni News
Sanjay Shete (PhD 1998)
Sanjay Shete has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Congratulations, Sanjay!
Melissa Callaway Aitken (BS 1998)
"I have my 10 year anniversary coming up in June 2012 working as a physical therapist with Georgia Health Sciences Medical Center formerly known as Medical College of Georgia Hospital in Augusta, Georgia. I want to brag on how I used my Statistics major/ Bachelor of Science degree to help with our research paper in achieving my Master's degree in Physical Therapy in December 2001. I was really ahead of my class, due to my statistics background, and therefore my classmates asked me for the majority of input in assimilating the data in our group research projects. We aced our projects with flying colors, might I add.
Thank you for all the wonderful education I received from the Statistics Department. I felt that each of the professors as well as the department head were all eager to listen and counsel us in how to use our degrees in our future.
I have been residing in Augusta, Georgia since June 2002 where I met my husband, Matt Aitken who is now one of the Richmond County Commissioners and we have a five year=old daughter, Cecilia who is now in Kindergarten."
Michele Mandel (AB 1980)
Michele recently celebrated her 30th year at the Centers for Disease Control an Prevention in Atlanta.
Michele is a Health Statistician in the Division of Reproductive Health. Most of her years were spent working on
a variety of research studies looking on such topics as oral contraceptive use and the risk of breast cancer, ectopic pregnancy, smoking cessation during pregnancy, and most recently, perinatal transmission of HIV in infants and contraceptive use effectiveness in HIV positive woman. Michele's son graduated from the UGA Terry College of Business in May with a degree in MIS and her daughter is working on her application for the fall of 2012.
Randy Cooper (MS 1996)
"I am a systems analyst at Protective Life Insurance Company in Birmingham, AL. Before moving to Birmingham, I was a temporary statistics professor at the University of South Alabama and a software engineer at Huntington Ingalls Industries. I am married to my lovely wife Melissa. It’s been 13 years. I am also involved with Toastmasters International, and I achieved the DTM (Distinguished Toastmasters) award, which is the highest award. I also served as Area and Division Governor."
Rebecca Barrett Phillips (BS 2005, MS 2007)
In May of 2011, Rebecca completed a Master of Business Administration from Kennesaw State University. She works for Synovus Bank as a Research Analyst in the Card Services division, and has been with this company since 2007.
David and Wendy Smith (PhD 2001)
David and Wendy Smith are enjoying life in Cookeville, TN. David is an Associate Professor in Mathematics at Tennessee Technological University. Wendy teaches part time and enjoys spending time with their two daughters Margaret (6) and Katherine (4).
Susan A. Baldwin (BS 1979)
Susan has her 30 year anniversary with Southern Company on 6/8/11. Susan is an IT Project Manager, PMP certified, with Southern Company Services and works in the Project Office of the Strategic Planning & Compliance organization of Information Technology. Susan manages various projects supporting primarily the Distribution or Transmission focus of the company. Susan also completed an external Careers in Action Leadership Foundations training class in December, 2010.
Sean Kanter (MS 1999)
Sean and his wife welcomed a baby to their family in April of this year.
Lucy Swart Beauchamp (BS 1971)
"I am the Executive Director of the Belmont Bay Science Center Foundation and concentrate on providing hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education to K-12 students. One of our programs "Arts on the Go", a collaborative effort with the Center for the Arts and Prince William County Public Schools, just won the Agnes L. Colgan Community Service Award from the Prince William Chamber of Commerce. This award recognizes the outstanding non-profit program in the community."
John H (Jack) Schuenemeyer (PhD 1975)
"This year I had a book published (with coauthor L. J. Drew) titled, "Statistics for Earth and Environmental Scientists" published by Wiley in Feb of this year. I did send something to John so you may have this info. Details can be found at www.earthstatbook.com. Also, I was appointed to the Am Stat Assoc, Committee on Energy Statistics."