Panel

Title: Life After College

Abstract: Mathematics and statistics majors have a variety of options after college/university. A graduate could directly head into a business/industry/non-profit/government job after graduation or continue their studies in a terminal master's degree or a Ph.D. program. Even after graduate school, choices abound: An academic career, a job in industry, a national research lab, or in business, etc. This panel will be an open discussion on these different career options and provide tips to participants on how to best prepare for life after college. The panel will allow for Q&A time for participant questions.

Panelists: 

Dr. Abbey Bourdon received her PhD from Wesleyan University in 2014. She is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Wake Forest University, where she is also the director of the Research Training Program. Her research concerns modular curves and Galois representations of elliptic curves.

AJ Clark is a Senior Marketing Data Analyst at Pet Supplies Plus. His role uses data to analyze marketing campaigns and recommend solutions for improving performance including data science techniques. Prior to his current role,  he also spent 3 years at Meijer in marketing and advertising analytics. He has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from GVSU and a M.S. in Applied & Computational Mathematics from the University of Washington. 

Dr. Jaroslaw Harezlak is a Provost Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health-Bloomington at Indiana University. His major research interests include regularization methods in statistics, brain imaging, and wearable computing. He earned BSc in Mathematics from Simon Fraser University, MSc in Statistics from the University of British Columbia and PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University.

Martha McRoy is a Senior Research Methodologist at NORC at the University of Chicago, where she specializes in survey design, data quality, and methodological research supporting large-scale social science studies. She earned her B.S. in Statistics from Grand Valley State University and her M.S. in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan.