Mu Sigma Rho - Virginia Alpha Chapter

About Mu Sigma Rho at Virginia Tech

Mu Sigma Rho is the National Statistics Honor Society which was founded at Iowa State University in 1968 by Ted Bancroft, David Huntsberger, and Oscar Kempthorne. The organizationís membership includes students, both undergraduate and graduate, faculty, and honorary members in 17 chapters throughout the country. The purpose of our society is to promote and encourage scholarly activity in statistics and to recognize achievement among students and faculty.

The Virginia Alpha Chapter of Mu Sigma Rho was established at Virginia Tech in 1979. The chapter meets twice a year. At the fall meeting in November new members are recognized and presented with certificates. The spring meeting is held in April to announce the results of the election of officers for the upcoming term. As part of the chapterís commitment to excellence in statistics, a speaker is sponsored at both meetings in conjunction with the weekly colloquium series in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech. Recent speakers include:

  • Dr. Alan Agresti (University of Florida) - Fall 2007
  • Dr. Andrew Lawson (University of South Carolina) - Spring 2007
  • Dr. Klaus Hinkelmann (Virginia Tech) - Fall 2006
  • Dr. Douglas M. Hawkins (University of Minnesota) - Spring 2006
  • Dr. Raymond H. Myers (Virginia Tech) - Fall 2005
  • Dr. Paul F. Velleman (Cornell University) - Spring 2005
  • Dr. Raymond H. Myers (Virginia Tech) - Fall 2004
  • Dr. Norman Draper (University of Wisconsin) - Spring 2004
  • Dr. Michael Lavine (Duke University) - Fall 2003
  • Dr. John A. Cornell (University of Florida) - Spring 2003
  • Dr. Angela Neff-Patterson (General Electric) - Fall 2002

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Tutoring

Mu Sigma Rho provides a list of tutors for a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses to Virginia Tech students. This list is kept in the Statistics Department main office, Hutcheson Hall room 406A.

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Qualifications and Contacts

In order to qualify for membership in Mu Sigma Rho, graduate students must have completed at least 12 or more graduate credit hours in statistics with a QCA of 3.5 or better. Undergraduate students must be seeking a bachelor's degree in statistics, towards which they must have completed two years of coursework. Eight credit hours must be statistics course work with at least five of these credit hours being at the junior level or higher. They must also have a major QCA of at least 3.25 and be in top 1/3 of their class (junior or senior). Questions about Mu Sigma Rho membership and activities can be directed to the faculty advisor or the officers listed below (these are the officers for the 2007-2008 academic year).

 

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey B. Birch
Director of Graduate Programs in Statistics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0439
Phone: (540) 231-5630
FAX: (540) 231-3863
E-mail: jbbirch@vt.edu
President:

Denisa Olteanu
403-P Hutcheson Hall
(540) 231-5859
dolteanu@vt.edu
Vice-President:

Laura Freeman
403-T Hutcheson Hall
(540) 231-5859
lamorgan@vt.edu
Treasurer:

Trevor Walsh
twalsh13@vt.edu

Both the faculty advisor and the officers can be reached at the following mailing address:

Department of Statistics
Virginia Tech
Hutcheson Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0439

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Members of the Virginia Alpha Chapter of Mu Sigma Rho

| Undergraduate Students | Graduate Students | Faculty | Honorary |

Undergraduate Students
  Date Initiated   Date Initiated
James Creiman Spring 1979* John Dickinson Spring 1979*
Sharon Kinsel Spring 1979* Douglas Mangum Spring 1979*
James Rice Spring 1979* Michael Saur Spring 1979*
Mary Warren Spring 1979* Sharon Ziegler Spring 1979*
Lori Austin Fall 1979 Patricia Burnett Fall 1979
Cheryl Christ Fall 1979 Juli Conover Fall 1979
William Finneran Fall 1979 Luann Smith Fall 1979
Frances Brydon Spring 1980 Jill T. Lacy Spring 1980
A. Carlisle Wilson III Spring 1980 Linda Lee Crawford Spring 1981
Sheri Ann Deitz Spring 1981 Ilene L. Dranoff Spring 1981
Howard L. Rauch Spring 1981 Lois J. Remsen Spring 1981
Theresa Marie Thomas Spring 1981 Michael A. Carpenter Spring 1982
James Haentzschel Spring 1982 Kathryn Hand Spring 1982
Timothy C. Kearns Spring 1982 David S. King Spring 1982
Hugh E. Kroehling Spring 1982 William M. Moore Spring 1982
Gertrude A. Russell Spring 1982 Margaret Fletcher Spring 1983
Mary Fortman Spring 1983 James T. Marshall Spring 1983
Paul A. McSorley Spring 1983 Michael A. Rozum Spring 1983
Cheryl L. Evans Spring 1984 Karen Rose Spring 1984
Betty Jeanne Sargent Spring 1984 Todd Thomas Treichel Spring 1984
Joseph A. Winkeler, Jr. Spring 1984 Steven Vincent Burke Spring 1985
Anthony Joseph Cecce Spring 1985 Kriste Maune Spring 1985
Robert Colby Perkins, Jr. Spring 1985 John Stephen Preisser, Jr. Spring 1985
Thomas J. Roemhildt Spring 1985 David Webb Spring 1985
Robert Baldwin Hall Spring 1986 Julie Ann Myers Spring 1986
Mark Traccarella Spring 1986 Susan Bruce Spring 1987
Cora Buckley Spring 1987 Tammy D. Coffey Spring 1987
Robert L. Dainton, Jr. Spring 1987 Gregory T. Fulton Spring 1987
Joan M. Johnson Spring 1987 Carol L. Miller Spring 1987
Amanda M. Abdy Spring 1988 Wendy Jean Barboza Spring 1988
Susan L. Brock Spring 1988 Helena Hoen Keady Spring 1988
Michelle A. Miller Spring 1988 Suzanne Beth Reichard Spring 1988
Ellen Patricia Schaefer Spring 1988 Vanessa K. Sherlock Spring 1988
William V. Franks Spring 1989 Todd Sterling Manke Spring 1989
M.J. Alhabeeb Fall 1989 Lisa Carol Bayer Fall 1989
Kevin M. Beck Fall 1989 Scott Burroughs Fall 1989
Laura K. Gooding Fall 1989 Barry J. Hoffman Fall 1989
David A. Russell Fall 1990 Christina L. Baker Fall 1992
Stephanie R. Bogar Fall 1992 Keith Graham Curtis Fall 1992
James C. Decker, Jr. Fall 1992 Jason DeLozier Fall 1992
Karen A. Freeman Fall 1992 Glen L. Hartless Fall 1992
Clifton W. Kelly Fall 1992 Mihn Vinh Truong Fall 1992
Andrea Denise Vess Fall 1992 Daniel Jacob Price Spring 1993
Natalie A. Cardwell Fall 1993 Nathan August Curtis Fall 1993
Patrick Fitzgerald Darken Fall 1993 David Foster Fall 1993
Gregory S. Steeno Fall 1993 Rolando Daniel Arrivillaga Fall 1994
Tonya Ann Clark Fall 1994 Jennifer Sue Johnson Fall 1994
Judith Elfriede Mili Fall 1994 Joseph Arthur Burcham Fall 1995
Sophia Chou Fall 1995 Elizabeth Johnson Fall 1995
Julia Marie Utter Fall 1995 Michelle L. Volpato Fall 1995
Seth R. Wyatt Fall 1995 Vicki Leigh Zerfoss Fall 1995
Celia R. Eicheldinger Fall 1996 Jennifer J. Frank Fall 1996
Holly L. Jennings Fall 1996 Amy Sherlene Lanning Fall 1996
Shaila M. Reifsteck Fall 1996 Debra L. Sweet Fall 1996
Kenneth Keane Fall 1997 Jason Thomas Lee Fall 1997
Anthony J. Young Fall 1998 Paula C. Johnson Fall 1998
Deborah K. Ford Fall 1998 Kathryn Elizabeth Tucker Fall 1998
Taryn Swanson Fall 1998 Aparna Bamzai Fall 2001
Peter Boyer Fall 2001 Chad Craun Fall 2001
Travis Gray Fall 2001 Ashley Edwards Fall 2002
Katherine Zarfas Fall 2002 Bing Liu Fall 2003
Taylor Lewis Spring 2004 Andrea Lamas Fall 2004
Christopher Franck Fall 2004 Franklin Sell Fall 2004
Lydia Biberaj Spring 2005 Paula Colgin Spring 2005
Kathryn Pearson Spring 2005 Ben Hurwitz Spring 2005
Stephen Kaputa Spring 2005 Justin Lofling Fall 2005
Mary Arrowsmith Fall 2006 Michelle Yavulla Fall 2006
Cory Edmonds Fall 2006 Arwin Thomasson Fall 2006
David Peng Fall 2006 Jeff Fuerte Fall 2006
Brian Miller Spring 2007 Trevor Walsh Spring 2007
Katherine Eady Fall 2007 Susan Furst Fall 2007
Kyle Smoot Fall 2007    
Graduate Students
  Date Initiated Date Initiated
Doris Binkley Spring 1979* Michael Deaton Spring 1979*
Nancy Haas Spring 1979* Yer-Van Hui Spring 1979*
Yuk-Miu Lam Spring 1979* Ahang Rabbani Spring 1979*
Jill Stewart Spring 1979* William Woodall Spring 1979*
James Hussey Fall 1979 Harry Khamis Fall 1979
Luen-Fure Lee Fall 1979 Geraldine Milanese Fall 1979
Betsy Peters Fall 1979 Shirley Ray Fall 1979
David L. Banks Spring 1980 Cheryl R. Bearden Spring 1980
James Randal Brittain Spring 1980 William D. Grubbs Spring 1980
Ana Nora Hurtado Spring 1980 Charles L. Liss Spring 1980
Mary Ann OíGorman Spring 1980 Arn-Shi Shen Spring 1980
Robert Tripp Spring 1980 Rouh-Yun Yu Spring 1980
Cheng-Tao Chang Spring 1981 Jain Chung Spring 1981
Rodney G. Dunn Spring 1981 Lester L. Freshwater Spring 1981
Patrick D. Gerard Spring 1981 Changsoon Park Spring 1981
Dhafir Hussain Rashed Spring 1981 Edith E. Tan Spring 1981
Harold Thomas Wilson, Jr. Spring 1981 James D. Newberry Spring 1982
David D. Reed Spring 1982 Raphel Ouseph Thattil Spring 1982
Nien-fan Zhang Spring 1982 Mona B. Zirkes Spring 1982
Raid W. Amin Spring 1983 Matthew Chen Spring 1983
Sherryl A. Daugherty Spring 1983 Ann Giovannitti-Jensen Spring 1983
Bruce R. Knoebel Spring 1983 Wonwoo Lee Spring 1983
David Morris Spring 1983 Laura L. Bauer Spring 1984
Patrick Anthony DeFeo Spring 1984 Margaret Hessler Spring 1984
David B. Agard Spring 1985 Indushobha N. Chengalur Spring 1985
Hisham Mohíd Hilow Spring 1985 Won-Chin Huang Spring 1985
Buyong Kim Spring 1985 Ruey-Pyng Lu Spring 1985
Brian Douglas Marx Spring 1985 Christopher Lee Riley Spring 1985
Melinda Smith Spring 1985 Ying Keh Wu Spring 1985
Jessica M. Hasson Spring 1986 Karen E. Hufnagel Spring 1986
Kimberly J. Kearns Spring 1986 Donald E. Mercante Spring 1986
Victoria Payne Vizcaino Spring 1986 G. Geoffrey Vining Spring 1986
Jai Wook Baik Spring 1987 Diane Blumenfield Spring 1987
Alfred DeMaris Spring 1987 David Krupa Spring 1987
Barbara Kuzmak Spring 1987 Phillip Ramsey Spring 1987
Thomas O. Vinson, Jr. Spring 1987 Gyo-Young Cho Spring 1988
Carl E. Fritz Spring 1988 Sang Ik Kim Spring 1988
Bruce K. Koons Spring 1988 Russell L. Reeve Spring 1988
Sungsue Rheem Spring 1988 Paul T. Savarese Spring 1988
Ujjwala Sawalapurkar Spring 1988 Laura L. Voshell Spring 1988
Gary S. Baran Spring 1989 Melissa C. Hunter Spring 1989
Keith N. Selander Spring 1989 Sindee S. Sutherland Spring 1989
Catherine Sue Underwood Spring 1989 Lewis VanBrackle Spring 1989
Scott Henderson Fall 1989 Jinnam Jo Fall 1989
Hoon-Ja Lee Fall 1989 Darcy P. Mays, III Fall 1989
Yoon G. Kim Fall 1989 Kelly Theresa Smith Fall 1989
Zachary G. Stoumbos Fall 1989 Thomas Allenberg Fall 1990
Clark Gaylord Fall 1990 Mark Heise Fall 1990
Alexandra Kapatou Fall 1990 Matthew McKenzie Fall 1990
Young Moon Fall 1990 Kyoungah See Fall 1990
Shanthi Sethuraman Fall 1990 Kelly Stebbins Fall 1990
Iksung Cho Fall 1991 Jennifer Jean Davison Fall 1991
Kristi L. Griffiths Fall 1991 Karole Jo Herzog Fall 1991
Jane Elizabeth Jessee Fall 1991 William C. Letsinger Fall 1991
Milan Mangeshkar Fall 1991 James Edward Mays Fall 1991
Kwan-Soo Park Fall 1991 Shin Cheng Wang Fall 1991
Xueli Zou Fall 1991 Amita Gopinath Fall 1992
Yan Jia Fall 1992 Donggeon Kim Fall 1992
Rebecca G. Land Fall 1992 Sarah Raskin Fall 1992
Molly Kathleen VanCaste Fall 1992 Jeffrey D. Vest Fall 1992
Victoria Ann Vogel Fall 1992 Christopher A. Assaid Fall 1993
Michael A. Beaghen Fall 1993 Allen M. Cheek Fall 1993
Honghui Chen Fall 1993 Lisa M. Chiacchierini Fall 1993
Brian C. Dietz Fall 1993 Jinhyo Kim Fall 1993
Kiho Kim Fall 1993 Angela R. McMahan Fall 1993
Timothy Jay Robinson Fall 1993 William M. Wiley Fall 1993
Lihan Yan Fall 1993 Changguo Yang Fall 1993
Obaid Al-Saidy Fall 1994 Gloria Broadwater Fall 1994
Georgoulla Ioannou Fall 1994 Yew-Haur Lee Fall 1994
Michael Nowell Fall 1994 Scott Patterson Fall 1994
Dan Spitzner Fall 1994 Jennifer Wade Huffman Fall 1995
Christopher S. Hughes Fall 1995 Angela Neff Fall 1995
Susan P. Raught Fall 1995 Stephanie A. Saxby Fall 1995
Jennifer L. Workinger Fall 1995 Charles J. Wright, II Fall 1995
Peter Arthur Ammermann Fall 1996 Daniel R. Eno Fall 1996
John R. Grubb Fall 1996 Gregory R. Ligozio Fall 1996
Hefang Lin Fall 1996 Laura M. Patterson Fall 1996
Angela Pinkley Fall 1996 Michele Riley Fall 1996
Suzanne Viselli Fall 1996 Sheila M. Fulk Fall 1997
Kimberly Gimbert Fall 1997 Li Guan Fall 1997
Susan M. Harris Fall 1997 Steven J. Kathman, Jr. Fall 1997
Shannon C. Lang Fall 1997 Guorong Ma Fall 1997
Samuel P. Wilcock Fall 1997 Michael F. Schneider Fall 1998
B. Alden Starnes Fall 1998 Megan Janet Waterman Fall 1998
Seth Kenneth Stanley Clark Fall 1998 Robert B. Noble, Jr. Fall 1998
Sundardas S. Dorai-Raj Fall 1998 Melissa M. Courtade Fall 1998
Janet Elizabeth Bernard Fall 1998 Hong Liu Fall 1998
Lei Liu Fall 1998 David Allan Burt Fall 1998
Wilson Shealy Fall 1999 Keun Pyo Kim Fall 1999
Ilya Lipkovich Fall 1999 Yanping Wang Fall 1999
Edward Boone Fall 2000 Hong Liang Fall 2000
Bennett Otieno Fall 2000 Ayca Ozol Fall 2000
Xiao Yang Fall 2000 Lijia Yang Fall 2000
David Farrar Fall 2001 Bo Jin Fall 2001
Kim Kimbleton Fall 2001 Li Liang Fall 2001
Mahmoud Mahmoud Fall 2001 Brooke Marshall Fall 2001
Val Parvu Fall 2001 Kevin Shropshire Fall 2001
Yanping (Jane) Wang Fall 2001 Joe Warfield Fall 2001
Alyaa Zahran Fall 2001 Lijia Zeng Fall 2001
Silvia Zhang Fall 2001 Xin Zhong Fall 2001
Christy Bower Fall 2002 Younan Chen
Fall 2002
Yuyan Duan
Fall 2002 Juan Li
Fall 2002
Stephen Miller
 Fall 2002 Stephanie Pickle
Fall 2002
Penelope Pooler Fall 2002 Li Wang Fall 2002
Mingjin Yan Fall 2002 Xiao Yang Fall 2002
Huizi Zhang Fall 2002 Feng Gao Fall 2003
Zhengrong Li Fall 2003 Yuqiong Li Fall 2003
Wen Wan Fall 2003 Ying Zhang Fall 2003
J. Brooke Marshall Spring 2004 Peter Parker Spring 2004
Shannon Fraker Fall 2004 Kimberly Love Fall 2004
Dipayan Maiti Fall 2004 Shabnam Modarres-Mousavi Fall 2004
Xiaowei Wang Fall 2004 Hongzhang Zheng Fall 2004
Aditya Lele Spring 2005 Jinsong Chen
 Fall 2005
Fengming Hu Fall 2005 Michael Joner Fall 2005
Mi Hyun Lee Fall 2005 Jianying Lou Fall 2005
Sunan Zhao Fall 2005 Sara Wilson Spring 2006
Abdel-salem Abdel-salem Fall 2006 Adam De Oliveira Fall 2006
Jonathan Duggins Fall 2006 Laura Freeman Fall 2006
Qianhong (Catherine) Fu Fall 2006 Linman Gan Fall 2006
Zhonggai Li Fall 2006 Denisa Olteanu Fall 2006
Jake Zielinski Fall 2006 Garima Chaturvedi Fall 2007
Chao Han Fall 2007 Megan Lutz Fall 2007
Anne Ryan Fall 2007 John Szarka, III Fall 2007
Heng Wang Fall 2007 Pei Xiao Fall 2007
Yanmei Zhang Fall 2007    
Faculty
Date Initiated Date Initiated
Jesse C. Arnold Spring 1979* Klaus Hinkelmann Spring 1979*
I.J. Good Spring 1979* Jeffrey B. Birch Spring 1980
Clyde Y. Kramer Spring 1979* + Jerry E. Mann Spring 1980
Raghu N. Kackar Spring 1980 Golde I. Holtzman Spring 1981
Raymond H. Myers Spring 1980 Eric Smith Spring 1983
Bradley O. Skarpness Spring 1982 Anya M. McGuirk Fall 1991
Clint W. Coakley Spring 1986 Chao-Wen Lu Fall 1991
Marvin Lentner Fall 1991 Keying Ye Fall 1992
Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. Fall 1992 Christine Anderson-Cook Fall 1997
Robert S. Schulman Fall 1993 Ina Hoeschele Fall 2004
Leigh Harrell Fall 2004 Samantha Prins Fall 2004
Mike McGill Fall 2004 Chong He Fall 2005
Dongchu Sun Fall 2005 Pang Du Fall 2006
Marlow Lemons Fall 2006 George Terrell Fall 2006
Feng Guo Fall 2007 Dong-Yun Kim Fall 2007
Inyoung Kim Fall 2007 Scotland Leman Fall 2007
Honorary
  Date Initiated   Date Initiated
Whitfield Cobb Fall 1979 Boyd Harshbarger Fall 1979
Richard L. Anderson Spring 1983
Sudhakar Dharmadhikari Spring 1985 Paul D. Minton Spring 1985
Lynne Billard Spring 1986 Donald S. Burdick Spring 1986
Robert Hooke Spring 1987 Charles A. McGilchrist Spring 1987
William F. Eddy Spring 1988 Madan L. Puri Spring 1988
Murari Singh Spring 1989 George Milliken Fall 1989
Michael H. Kutner Fall 1990 Nozer D. Singpurwalla Fall 1991
William C. Parr Fall 1991 Edward J. Wegman Fall 1992
Dennis Lin Fall 1993 John Boling Fall 1994
Douglas C. Montgomery Fall 1995 Thomas P. Hettmansperge Fall 1996
James Stephen Marron Fall 1996 Dr. Jon Kettenring Spring 1997
Dr. Herb Kirk Fall 1997 Dr. Christina Mastrangeo Spring 1998
Dr. Robert G. Wilkinson Fall 1998 Mr. Berton Gunter Spring 1999
Dr. Peter McCullagh
Fall 1999 Dr. James M. Lucas
Spring 2000
Dr. Donald S. Burdick
Fall 2000 Dr. B. Michael Adams
Spring 2001
Dr. Gerry Hahn
Fall 2001 Dr. Jianqing Fan
Spring 2002
Dr. Angela Neff-Patterson
Fall 2002 Dr. John A. Cornell
Spring 2003
Dr. Michael Lavine
Fall 2003 Dr. Norman Draper Spring 2004
Dr. Paul F. Velleman Spring 2005 Douglas M. Hawkins Spring 2006
Dr. Alan Agresti Fall 2007    
       
* Charter Member   + Deceased  

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