Author Bios

Dr. Beth L. Chance:
Dr. Chance is Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, and previously taught in the Department of Mathematics at University of the Pacific. Dr. Chance has a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research, with a concentration in Statistics, from Cornell University. Member of the Mathematical Association of America, the American Statistical Association, and serves as an officer in the ASA's Section on Statistical Education and on the editorial boards of Stats a magazine for students, the Journal of Statistics Education and The American Statistician.

Dr. Chance conducts research on the effectiveness of technology for helping students to learn statistical concepts and explores alternative assessment strategies. She is also a faculty consultant for the Advanced Placement program in Statistics.

Personal: Her personal hobbies include volleyball and tennis.

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Dr. Allan J. Rossman:
Dr. Rossman is Associate Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, and formerly at Dickinson College. Dr. Rossman has a B.A. from Geneva College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Rossman serves as Chair of the ASA's Section on Statistical Education and on the editorial boards of Stats, a magazine for students, the Journal of Statistics Education, and The American Statistician.

Dr. Rossman was the director of the MAA's STATS project that conducted workshops for mathematicians who teach statistics. He has chaired the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics.

Personal: His personal interests include managing a “fantasy” baseball team.

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Dr. Allan J. Rossman and Dr. Beth L. Chance (joint work):
Dr. Chance and Dr. Rossman are co-authors of the Workshop Statistics series of coursebooks published by Key College Publishing. They have also published articles in the College Mathematics Journal and in The American Statistician. Drs. Chance and Rossman currently have a grant from the NSF to develop curricular materials for a post-calculus introduction to statistics. They have given presentations and conducted workshops on statistics education around the world.

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Dr. Christopher J. Lacke:
Dr. Lacke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. Dr. Lacke has a A.B. in Mathematics and Economics from Bowdoin College, an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Southern Maine, and a Master of Statistics and Ph.D. in Operations Research from North Carolina State University.  He is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, the American Statistical Association, and serves as an officer in the MAA’s SIGMAA on Statistical Education and as a reviewer for the Journal of Statistics Education.

Dr. Lacke’s research interests include statistics and operations research education, and applications of statistics and operations research in a variety of fields, especially in environmental and health-related disciplines, as well as in sports and games of chance.

Personal: His hobbies include a variety of sports (basketball, tennis, weightlifting, golf, etc.), trying to find time to paint his house and clean out his garage, and taking care of a yard that finally has a larger proportion of grass than of clover and crabgrass.  Since becoming diabetic six years ago, he is also in a never-ending search for good non-alcoholic beers (note:  he hasn’t found many).

He is happily married to Cheryl, with whom he is lucky to have three great children, Bailey, Madeline, and Nolan.

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