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| ''Tell your students to go into stats. The market is short on well-rounded statisticians with good business and management skills. Demand for this unique skill set is only going to grow.'' <br> | ''Tell your students to go into stats. The market is short on well-rounded statisticians with good business and management skills. Demand for this unique skill set is only going to grow.'' <br> | ||
| <center> -Thad Hellman '98</center> | <center> -Thad Hellman '98</center> | ||
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| - | On October 1, Prof. Rebecca Goldin of George Mason University and the nonprofit organization STATS will be delivering two lectures in Northfield. The first, at 3:30p.m. on Carleton College's campus is titled "An attempt to turn geometry into decorated graphs." The second lecture is titled "Should you believe it?" This will be held at 7:00 in Tomson 280 on the St. Olaf College campus. Full abstracts for the lectures and more information about Prof. Goldin is available [[Media:Abstract.pdf|here]]. | ||
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| ===<center>''Why should you earn a Statistics Concentration?''</center><br>=== | ===<center>''Why should you earn a Statistics Concentration?''</center><br>=== | ||
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Colleen Catherine Curran, '04
Major(s): Math
Concentration(s): Statistics
Job or student Title: Grad Student in Biostatistics
Company or School: University of Minnesota
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Colleen graduated from St. Olaf with a mathematics major and a statistics concentration in 2004. She entered the PhD program in biostatistics at Univeristy of Minnesota in the Fall of 2004.
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