John H (Jack) Schuenemeyer, UGS PhD Statistics, 1975, has been named Distinguished Lecturer for 2012 by the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG). Anyone interested in having Jack make a presentation should contact the IAMG website (www.iamg.org) for possible topics and details. As distinguished lecturer, Jack has given talks at the University of Geosciences in Beijing, the Sandia National Laboratories, and the University of Ottawa. Jack is professor emeritus, University of Delaware and is currently president of Southwest Statistical Consulting, LLC.

Manoj is currently enrolled at Georgia State University pursuing a master's degree in Public Health.

Colette currently lives in Hawaii. She says that she is “totally retired,” but she does still occasionally come to Athens.

Michele recently celebrated her 31st year at the Centers for Disease Control and 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 at 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.

Nikki is the Carrier Relations Manager for Mansfield Oil Company, Inc. in Gainesville, Georgia, where she manages logistics for petroleum hauling.

Young-Won Kim has been a faculty member in the Department of Statistics at Sookmyung University (Seoul, South Korea) for about 20 years now. “I am interested in research on Survey Sampling. Currently, I am working on sample design for public sector and election poll, etc.”

“I am currently a second year law student at the University of Georgia School of Law. After finishing my degree in statistics I completed the AB/MA requirements in the Terry College of Business and earned a Master's degree in Economics in 2010. I wrote my thesis on the Effect of the Expansion of Privity on Legal Malpractice Claims in the U.S. I worked last summer as a law clerk at the Fulton County Superior Court Business Case Division, clerking under a panel of senior judges, and am currently working with the in-house counsel at Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta.”

“I have been employed at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (Durham, NC) since 2002. As a senior statistical programmer, I work on numerous clinical trials for various pharmaceutical companies. As the statistical programming lead, I create numerous analysis datasets, tables, listings, and graphs that are sent to the FDA for drug approval.”

Donald was recently appointed as the Assistant City Attorney and Deputy Solicitor for the City of Johns Creek, Georgia.

“I have been working at the CDC in Atlanta since 1998, right after I received my BS in Statistics from UGA. I continued working there full time while I completed my Master's degree. Four years ago, I was promoted to Senior Statistician in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, and I now supervise a team of five data analysts and statisticians. I love my job and I miss the UGA Statistics Department!”