Biography:Regina Nuzzo

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Regina Nuzzo
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisStochastic models for lipid biochemistry (2002)
Doctoral advisorRichard A. Olshen
Academic work
DisciplineStatistician
InstitutionsGallaudet University
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Regina Nuzzo is a professor of statistics at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., a liberal arts school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. She also writes articles about the importance of statistical and science communication and is an advocate for people with disabilities in the science and technology field.[1]

Education

Nuzzo graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and went on to obtain her Ph.D in statistics from Stanford University in 2004, supervised by Richard A. Olshen.[2] Her dissertation was written on the usage of stochastic models in biochemistry.

Nuzzo also graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz's science writing program.[3]

Career

Nuzzo has been a faculty member at Gallaudet University since 2006. She has written multiple articles for publication in major magazines, including WIRED magazine, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, as well as Reader's Digest. In addition to teaching, she gives seminars about statistics, which have been hosted at the University of Washington,[4][5] the University of Maryland,[6] and Harvard University.[7]

In 2019, Nuzzo was appointed the Senior Advisor for Statistics Communication and Media Innovation for the American Statistical Association.[8]

Awards

In 2014, Nuzzo was awarded the Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award (ESRA) by the American Statistical Association for her article in Nature about statistical p-values.[9]

  • "Standing Strong", Cancer Today - 2013[10]
  • "The Future of Election Forecasting", Scientific American - 2014[11]
  • "Regrown nerves boost bionic ears", Nature - 2014[12]
  • "How scientists fool themselves - and how they can stop", Nature - 2015[13]
  • "What Happens When Scientists Experiment on Themselves?" - Reader's Digest - 2016[14]
  • "When courtroom science goes wrong - and how stats can fix it", Knowable Magazine - 2018[15]

Notable academic journal articles

  • "Intracellular reduction of selenite into glutathione peroxidase... " - US National Library of Medicine - 2000[16]
  • "Vestibular Dysfunction in DFNB1 Deafness" - US National Library of Medicine - 2011[17]

References

  1. "WoW Seminar April 21, 6:30-8:00pm" (in en-US). https://deafscientists.com/2016/04/wow-seminar-april-21-630-800pm/. 
  2. "Regina Nuzzo". https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/regina-nuzzo. 
  3. "CV". https://www.reginanuzzo.com/files/cv.pdf. 
  4. "Biostatistics Seminar: Regina Nuzzo | Department of Biostatistics". https://www.biostat.washington.edu/node/9907. 
  5. "Biostatistics Seminar: Regina Nuzzo" (in en). https://www.biostat.washington.edu/node/9907. 
  6. "Grand Rounds with Regina Nuzzo" (in en). https://sph.umd.edu/multimedia/grand-rounds-regina-nuzzo. 
  7. "Regina Nuzzo" (in en-US). https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostatistics/tag/regina-nuzzo/. 
  8. "ASA Welcomes Regina Nuzzo as Senior Advisor for Statistics Communication and Media Innovation". https://www.amstat.org/news-listing/2021/10/08/asa-welcomes-regina-nuzzo-as-senior-advisor-for-statistics-communication-and-media-innovation. 
  9. Nuzzo, Regina (2014-02-13). "Scientific method: Statistical errors" (in en). Nature News 506 (7487): 150–152. doi:10.1038/506150a. PMID 24522584. Bibcode2014Natur.506..150N. 
  10. "Standing Strong" (in en-US). https://www.cancertodaymag.org:443/Pages/Summer2013/Vernal-Branch-Cancer-Survivor-Advocate.aspx. 
  11. Nuzzo, Regina (November 1, 2014). The Future of Election Forecasting. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1114-21. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-future-of-election-forecasting/. 
  12. Nuzzo, Regina (2014). "Regrown nerves boost bionic ears" (in en). Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.15082. http://www.nature.com/news/regrown-nerves-boost-bionic-ears-1.15082. 
  13. Nuzzo, Regina (2015-10-08). "How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop" (in en). Nature News 526 (7572): 182–185. doi:10.1038/526182a. PMID 26450039. Bibcode2015Natur.526..182N. 
  14. Nuzzo, Regina (2014-08-28). "What Happens When Scientists Experiment on Themselves?" (in en-US). https://www.thehealthy.com/healthcare/doctors/scientists-self-experiment/. 
  15. Nuzzo, Regina (2018-10-12). "When courtroom science goes wrong — and how stats can fix it". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-101118-4. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2018/when-courtroom-science-goes-wrong-and-how-stats-can-fix-it. 
  16. Bhamre, S.; Nuzzo, R. L.; Whitin, J. C.; Olshen, R. A.; Cohen, H. J. (August 2000). "Intracellular reduction of selenite into glutathione peroxidase. Evidence for involvement of NADPH and not glutathione as the reductant". Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 211 (1–2): 9–17. doi:10.1023/a:1007121506445. ISSN 0300-8177. PMID 11055542. 
  17. Dodson, Kelley M; Blanton, Susan H; Welch, Katherine O; Norris, Virginia W; Nuzzo, Regina L; Wegelin, Jacob A.; Marin, Ruth S; Nance, Walter E et al. (May 2011). "Vestibular Dysfunction in DFNB1 deafness". American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A 155 (5): 993–1000. doi:10.1002/ajmg.a.33828. ISSN 1552-4825. PMID 21465647.