Biography:Regina Nuzzo
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 bio-chemistry.
Nuzzo also graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz's science writing program, where she learned how to write effectively for a variety of audiences about science and technology.[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 The New York Times and 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] the University of Maryland,[5] and Harvard University.[6]
In 2019, Nuzzo was appointed the Senior Advisor for Statistics Communication and Media Innovation for the American Statistical Association.[7]
Awards
In 2014, Nuzzo was awarded the Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award (ESRA) by the American Statistical Association for her article in Nature magazine about statistical p-values.[8]
Notable popular press work
- "Standing Strong", Cancer Today - 2013 [9]
- "The Future of Election Forecasting", Scientific American - 2014 [10]
- "Regrown nerves boost bionic ears", Nature - 2014 [11]
- "How scientists fool themselves - and how they can stop", Nature - 2015 [12]
- "What Happens When Scientists Experiment on Themselves?" - Reader's Digest - 2016 [13]
- "When courtroom science goes wrong - and how stats can fix it", Knowable Magazine - 2018 [14]
Notable academic journal articles
- "Intracellular reduction of selenite into glutathione peroxidase... " - US National Library of Medicine - 2000 [15]
- "Vestibular Dysfunction in DFNB1 Deafness" - US National Library of Medicine - 2011 [16]
References
- ↑ Cherry, Nikki. "World of Wonder Seminar, April 2016 | Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate" (in en-US). https://www.rit.edu/deafscientists/2016/04/wow-seminar-april-21-630-800pm/.
- ↑ "Regina Nuzzo | Department of Statistics". https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/regina-nuzzo.
- ↑ "About the Program". https://scicom.ucsc.edu/about/index.html.
- ↑ "Biostatistics Seminar: Regina Nuzzo | Department of Biostatistics". https://www.biostat.washington.edu/node/9907.
- ↑ "Grand Rounds with Regina Nuzzo | UMD School of Public Health". https://sph.umd.edu/multimedia/grand-rounds-regina-nuzzo.
- ↑ "Regina Nuzzo | Department of Biostatistics | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health" (in en-us). https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostatistics/tag/regina-nuzzo/.
- ↑ "ASA Welcomes Regina Nuzzo as Senior Advisor for Statistics Communication and Media Innovation". https://www.amstat.org/ASA/News/ASA-Welcomes-Regina-Nuzzo-as-Senior-Advisor-for-Statistics-Communication-and-Media-Innovation.aspx.
- ↑ Nuzzo, Regina (2014-02-13). "Scientific method: Statistical errors" (in en). Nature News 506 (7487): 150–152. doi:10.1038/506150a. PMID 24522584. Bibcode: 2014Natur.506..150N.
- ↑ "Standing Strong" (in en-US). https://www.cancertodaymag.org:443/Pages/Summer2013/Vernal-Branch-Cancer-Survivor-Advocate.aspx.
- ↑ 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/.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2015Natur.526..182N.
- ↑ Nuzzo, Regina (2014-08-28). "What Happens When Scientists Experiment on Themselves?" (in en-US). https://www.thehealthy.com/healthcare/doctors/scientists-self-experiment/.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
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