Obaid Al-Saidy (PhD 2001) left Sultan Qaboos University in Oman and has been named Dean of the Higher College of Technology, the second largest educational institution in Oman, with over 8,000 students and 520 employees.

Keith Anderson (MS 2003) is a Statistician, Cancer Center Statistics, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He and wife Mary are doing very well despite the cold winters; they enjoy birdwatching and play competitive duplicate bridge in their spare time.

April Bolin (MIS 2008) has left the SC Department of Education and has moved to Atlanta, where she is a contractor for the Centers for Disease Control.

Angela (Teachey) Bradham (MIS 2007) is now a statistician with Blackbaud, Inc. in Charleston, working on predictive models to help non-profit organizations obtain donations.

Kelly (Scritchfield) Bradley and husband Will Bradley (both MS grads, 1999) Will is an Assistant Professor teaching statistics at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. Kelly earned a PhD in Educational Research at The Ohio State University, and was recently promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. Despite being "crazy busy with work", Kelly and Will still have much fun with their three children, Jamie (7), Bill (5) and John (2).

B. Brown Jr. (MIS 2000) is a Compensation Manager for UPS. He helps design and administer compensation plans for 100,000+ UPS Union Free employees in the US. They use multiple regression analysis to validate that the compensation plan is ad-ministered fairly across all employment levels.

Heather (Ridings) Couch (MS 2002) became a stay-at-home mom after 5 years of working as an actuary for Colonial Life in Columbia. Being an actuary was very rewarding, but she loves being home with their 2 year old son and 8-month old girl. She lives in the upstate closer to family with her husband who recently finished law school.

Holmes Finch (Statlab manager 1990-2002) was selected to receive the 2009 Anne Anastasi Early Career Award of Division 5 of the American Psycho-logical Association, presented each year to honor an individual who has demonstrated distinguished promise early in his or her career. The award will be presented at the 2009 APA Convention in Toronto, August 6-9.

Frank Guess (Assistant Professor 1986-89) is now Professor of Statistics at the University of Tennessee. He spent six years as PhD Director there, and in 2007 took a sabbatical at MIT. He and wife Margo celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2007 cruising the St. Lawrence Seaway.

David Hardesty (MS 1994) is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Kentucky. Check out http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=4507. David's research focuses on pricing, consumer knowledge, emotional intelligence, and measurement issues. He has recently published several articles in the Journal of Consumer Research related to consumer emotional intelligence and its measurement. David has received the outstanding MBA teacher award and currently teaches in both the MBA program as well as in the doctoral program. He and wife Kara have twin seven-year-old daughters Alexa and Destin.

Melinda Higgins (MS 1996; PhD Chemometrics 1995) has been employed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute as a Principal Research Scientist for over 13 years and for 2 years has had a joint appointment at Emory University's School of Nursing as a Senior Statistician and Research Professor. Dr. Higgins' research focus is applied multivariate pattern recognition and classification methods. She is Vice President of the GA Chapter of the ASA. She and her husband live in Decatur, GA (near Emory) and have a 5 year old son.

Thomas ("T.J.") Horan (MS 1995) is now Senior Business Director at SAS where he is responsible for product management, implementation, and consulting for analytic solutions, mostly for clients in the financial services area. His business travels have taken him all over the world including Australia, China, Brazil, and most of western Europe.

Leslie Jones (MS 1991) is currently Deputy Director for Actuarial, Market and Alternative Risk Transfer Services for the SC Department of Insurance. Leslie is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. She is currently serving as the Chair of the NAIC's Risk Retention Group (E) Task Force and the Vice-Chair of the NAIC's Life and Health Actuarial Task Force.

Petko Kostadinov (MS 2002) was ranked 29th worldwide in backgammon: http://www.flintbg.com/giants.html. He continues to work fulltime as a Statistical Analysis Supervisor at TriCenturion, Inc. in Columbia.

ShiowJen Lee (PhD 1993) is currently a senior mathematical statistician at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the US Food and Drug Administration. She enjoys very much the work of evaluation of cardiovascular and ophthalmic devices. Her husband Mark Rothmann is the lead mathematical statistician of the biologic oncology group at CDER, FDA. He is working on a book regarding non-inferiority clinical trials. Shiowjen's hobby is chasing after their sons Matthew (5) and Luke (2).

Emmy McKinney (MS 2005) is in the mortgage pricing group with Bank of America, where business is actually booming. She does price test design, measurement, and analytics, as well as some work with price elasticity models. She has also started teach-ing online undergrad business stat classes at Christian Brothers University and Charleston Southern University.

Azhar Nizam (MS 1987) continues as a Senior Associate in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University, where he has three times been named Professor of the Year in the School of Public Health. Since 2001, he has worked with biostatisticians and mathematical epidemiologists to develop stochastic simulators of infectious disease epidemics, including smallpox, cholera and seasonal and pandemic flu. The work has been well-received, published twice in Science as well as numerous times in the epidemiology and vaccine literature. The flu simulator has played a role in the development of the US pandemic flu preparedness plans.

Melinda Smith de Borrero (BS 1985) went on to earn an MS at Virginia Tech and a PhD in Marketing at USC. She is Senior Vice President and Director of Innovation with the leading market research firm TNS Global. She has published (for example) in the Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Letters. She lives in Cincinnati with her 10 year old daughter Maya and 11 year old adopted Cocker Rufus Romeo. They enjoy all things water related and walking in the woods - especially in the mountains of SC.

Danny Weathers (MS 1996) went on to earn a PhD in Marketing at USC and is now an associate professor of Marketing at LSU, having been promoted with tenure in the spring of 2008. He says that his statistics train-ing at USC has been instrumental in his job, that he is usually the "stats guy" on research projects, and that he enjoys that role. He teaches the Marketing Research course at LSU, and students often tell him, "You make statistics so easy to understand. Why don't you teach the introductory stats course?". Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, having been to Europe (3 times), Peru, rafted the Grand Canyon, and hiked in Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks, all in the last four years. He also plays the banjo in a bluegrass band, often performing before sitting-room only crowds at nursing homes around Baton Rouge.

Meredith (Tomlinson) Williams (PhD 2003) is in her 4th year as an Assistant Professor at Campbell University in North Carolina where she is now Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology & Security. Her husband, Jerry, is a psychological operations instructor at the John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, NC. They have two sons: Lee (2 years) and John Dun-can (1 week).