Robert L. Gould (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) is a leader in the statistics education community. He has served as chair of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Teacher Enhancement, has served as chair of the ASA’s Statistics Education Section, and served on a panel of co-authors for the Guidelines for Assessment in Instruction on Statistics Education (GAISE) College Report. As the associate director of professional development for CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education), Rob has worked closely with the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) to provide travelling workshops and summer institutes in statistics. For over ten years, he has served as Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Studies at the UCLA Department of Statistics, and he is Director of the UCLA Center for the Teaching of Statistics. In 2009, Rob was elected president of the Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association.
Colleen N. Ryan has taught statistics, chemistry, and physics to diverse community college students for decades. She taught at Oxnard College from 1975 to 2006, where she earned the Teacher of the Year Award. Colleen currently teaches statistics part-time at California Lutheran University. She often designs her own lab activities. Her passion is to discover new ways to make statistical theory practical, easy to understand, and sometimes even fun.
Colleen earned a B.A. in physics from Wellesley College, an M.A.T. in physics from Harvard University, and an M.A. in chemistry from Wellesley College. Her first exposure to statistics was with Frederick Mosteller at Harvard.
James B. Stallard has been teaching statistics and probability at the University of Calgary
since 1996 where he currently serves as the Associate Head, Teaching and Learning of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He has served as chair of the Statistical Education Committee of the SSC (Statistical Society of Canada) and as the President of the Statistical Education Section of the SSC. He earned a B.Sc. in statistics and economics from the University of Alberta, and a M.Sc. from the University of Calgary.
Michelle Boué holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. She has over twenty years of experience teaching mathematics and statistics at different colleges and universities in Canada, the United States and Mexico, including Trent University, St. Francis Xavier University, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Newbury College, and the ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México). In recent years, she has turned her attention to the promotion of science and mathematics education in elementary and secondary schools. She is currently a presenter for the Scientists in School organization in Ontario.
