The Staff & Their Interests

To contact the staff please see our phone/e-mail list.

STEVE BAKER
Accountant and Grants Manager, B.A., Business Admin & Accounting, Otterbein College
M.A., Public Administration, John Glenn School of Public Affairs at OSU
One of Steve's extracurricular goals in life is to start a golf league at OSU.

PAUL BROWER
Office Manager and Fiscal Officer, B.A., Psychology, Hope College, 1982.

ERIC DRAKE
Systems Manager, B.A., Linguistics, Ohio State, 2001.

TERRY ENGLAND
Office Associate.

MARK FOJAS
Systems Developer/Engineer, B.A., Philosophy, Northwestern, 1995.

JEAN SCOTT
CAUSE Program Coordinator, B.S. Applied Science from Miami University
Jean joined the department in October of 2005 after 11 years at Kenyon College as an administrative assistant, grant coordinator and event planner. Mom of two college students and a chocolate Labrador, she enjoys cooking, reading, and travel.

PATTY SHOULTS
Office Administrative Associate.

KYTHRIE SILVA
Learning Technology Developer, B.A. Mathematics, Secondary Teaching Certificate, Harding University, 1991
M.S. Environmental Economics, Ohio State, 1997.
If you want to do something different in the classroom, I want to help you "Do Something Great". I have worked on projects ranging from classroom/furniture design to web sites. I have three beautiful children (currently 3 yrs, 2 yrs and 1yr), a great husband, two dogs and a cat. In my spare time I enjoy...who am I kidding I don't have any spare time.

JUSTIN SLAUSON
Systems Developer/Engineer, Research Web Programmer.
Mr. Slauson has experience with a multitude of programming languages, databases and operating systems. In his spare time he is a motorcyclist, skier, and musician proficient on seven musical instruments.

BRIAN SMITH
Senior Systems Manager, B.S., B.A, Computer Science, French, Ohio State, 1992, 1997.
Mr. Smith has experience using Unix on various platforms, Windows, and Macintosh. His computing interests lie in system administration, C programming, games, and operating systems. Other academic interests include French, Spanish, philosophy, literature and history.

KATHY STONE
Office Associate

LISA VAN DYKE
Graduate Studies Coordinator, B.A., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.
Ms. Van Dyke has a background in academic advising and student affairs. In her free time, she enjoys knitting, reading, gaming, and spending time with her pets and loved ones.

Education Specialists

JACKIE MILLER
Auxiliary Assistant Professor/Program Specialist, Ph.D., Statistics Education, Ohio State, 2000.
Dr. Miller returned to Ohio State in July 2003 after three years teaching at Drury University in Springfield, MO. While she loved her position at Drury, Dr. Miller felt that it was time to return home and to Ohio State. Dr. Miller is quite active in the statistics education comminuty and is involved in stat ed activities at the national level. Non-academic interests include working out, rowing, biking, reading, movies, and, of course, her dogs.

DEBORAH RUMSEY
Statistics Education Specialist / Auxiliary Faculty
Dr. Deborah Rumsey is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Her area of specialty is statistics education. Her particular interests include immersive learning environment design, undergraduate curriculum development, and teacher training and support. Dr. Rumsey is the author of the books "Statistics for Dummies", "Statistics Workbook for Dummies" and "Probability for Dummies". She is the Program Chair and Conference Designer for USCOTS, the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics. Dr. Rumsey is the Associate Director for Outreach of CAUSE, the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education. She enjoys her family, fishing, driving tractors, and Ohio State Buckeye Football (not necessarily in that order).

Lecturers

Statistical Consulting Service

CHRISTOPHER HOLLOMAN
Director, Statistical Consulting Service.
Dr. Holloman's primary responsibilities within the SCS include mentoring graduate students performing statistical analyses and assisting university researchers and external clients in the planning, development, execution, and analysis of scientific experiments. His research interests include Bayesian Statistics, spatial modeling, and statistical computing.

JENI SQUIRIC
Operations Manager

See also: SCS People Page