Biography:Regina Loewenstein
Regina L. Loewenstein (February 10, 1916 – May 16, 1999)[1] was an American public health statistician who worked as a lecturer in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[2]
Life
Loewenstein was born on February 10, 1916.[3] She graduated from Barnard College in 1936,[4] and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1937, with the master's thesis The elliptic functions of Legendre and Jacobi.[5]
In 1948, she was chief of the operations department of the Study of Child Health Services of the American Academy of Pediatrics.[6] Beginning in the late 1940s, she worked with Gilbert Wheeler Beebe as a statistics researcher in the Medical Follow-up Agency of the National Research Council (NRC),[7] and by 1952 she was listed as chief of the statistics section of the Committee on Veterans Medical Problems of the NRC,[8] before later returning to Columbia as a faculty member.[2]
In 1971, she helped found the Caucus for Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association, serving as one of its four original executive committee members.[9] She was also active for many years in the American Public Health Association.[8][10]
Recognition
Loewenstein was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1976.[11] Columbia University offers a student prize, the Regina Loewenstein Prize for Academic Excellence in Health Policy and Management, named in her honor.
References
- ↑ "Loewenstein, Regina", The New York Times, May 18, 1999, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/18/classified/paid-notice-deaths-loewenstein-regina.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "In memorial: The university honors the lives of those who've passed away", Columbia University Record: 7, April 14, 2000, https://curecordarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cr20000414-01.2.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
- ↑ "Regina Loewenstein", Social Security Death Index, https://www.fold3.com/record/79886781/regina-loewenstein-social-security-death-index, retrieved 2021-08-21
- ↑ "Alumnae donors: Class of 1936", Barnard Alumnae Magazine: 29, Fall 1966, https://archive.org/details/barnardalumnaema561barn/page/n31/mode/2up
- ↑ WorldCat catalog entry for The elliptic functions of Legendre and Jacobi, accessed 2021-08-21
- ↑ "Applications for membership: Vital statistics section", American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health (American Public Health Association) 38 (4): 588, April 1948, doi:10.2105/ajph.38.4.587
- ↑ Berkowitz, E. D.; Santangelo, M. J. (1999), "2: The Early Committee Years", The Medical Follow-up Agency: The First Fifty Years 1946–1996, Washington (DC): National Academies Press, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230835/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Applications for fellowship: Statistics section", American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health (American Public Health Association) 42 (9): 1189, September 1952, doi:10.2105/ajph.42.9.1188
- ↑ Golbeck, Amanda (April 2020), "Supporting an inclusive community: A Caucus for Women in Statistics", Significance (Wiley) 17 (2): 42–44, doi:10.1111/1740-9713.01379
- ↑ "APHA's new 40-year members, 1988", American Journal of Public Health (American Public Health Association) 78 (12): 1602, December 1988, doi:10.2105/ajph.78.12.1600
- ↑ ASA Fellows List, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2016-07-22
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