Tenure Track Statistics Position
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Mount Holyoke College, which has offered a major in statistics for over 20 years, invites applications for a tenure-track position in statistics at the assistant professor level for fall 2010. (A fall 2011 start may be approved in exceptional circumstances.) Qualifications include a doctorate (completed or anticipated) and a commitment to teaching and scholarship in a liberal arts environment.
We seek candidates who have an active interest in work with undergraduates on statistical research projects and are receptive to collaborating with faculty and students across multiple disciplines. Candidates with interest and background in Bayesian methods, computational statistics, spatial analysis, data mining, or related areas are especially welcome.
A completed application should include a CV, statement of teaching philosophy, description of scholarly plans, and a statement of interest in Mount Holyoke College. Three letters of recommendation are also required. Together, the letters should comment specifically on your experience in teaching and in statistical applications. Materials received by November 10, 2009, will receive full consideration. Electronic submission through MathJobs.Org is encouraged. Paper may be sent to Statistics Search, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mount Holyoke College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA 01075.
Currently a department of ten, we each teach two courses per semester, are active in research, and have a tradition of curriculum development and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Mount Holyoke is an undergraduate liberal arts college for women with 2,100 students and 210 faculty. Half the faculty are women; one fourth are persons of color. Our students are similarly diverse: approximately 22% are domestic students of color and 18% are international. The college is located about 80 miles west of Boston in the Connecticut River valley and is a member of the Five College Consortium consisting of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts. Mount Holyoke is committed to fostering multicultural diversity and awareness in its faculty, staff and student body and is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and persons of color are especially encouraged to apply.
For further information you may contact the department chair, Janice Gifford.
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Senate Hopeful in New State Airs Evolving Views
New York TimesMath Honors Thesis
By MICHAEL BARBARO
Published: January 12, 2010
In his first extensive interview since he began weighing a run for United States Senate from New York, Harold E. Ford Jr. distanced himself from his previous opposition to same-sex marriage, his description of himself as “pro-life” and his push to permit local police officers to enforce federal immigration law, and said he would be a fiercer advocate for New York than Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand.
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Harold E. Ford Jr., a five-time Tennessee congressman, became an official New Yorker last year.
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In a wide-ranging discussion, Mr. Ford said that he had missed politics since leaving Congress four years ago and believes New Yorkers would be open to his candidacy, despite his Tennessee roots and intermittent Southern accent.