Ramayya Krishnan, Dean of the H. John Heinz III College and John Lehoczky, Dean of the Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences cordially invite you to a joint reception honoring Amelia Haviland as she receives the Anna Loomis McCandless Professorship and Ann Lee as she receives the Estella Loomis McCandless Professorship Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4 – 6 p.m. Posner Center Lobby Carnegie Mellon University (between Posner Hall and the College of Fine Arts building) RSVP by October 5, 2011 to cmu-events@andrew.cmu.edu. Questions? Please contact Susan Tate Hiser at 412-268-6567 or cmu-events@andrew.cmu.edu.
	AMELIA HAVILAND Amelia Haviland (H&SS'00, '03; HNZ'03) is an associate professor at Heinz College. After earning her master's and doctoral degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Haviland served as a senior statistician at the RAND Corporation. A statistician and a public policy researcher, Haviland is interested in using data analysis to inform policy questions that span health, civil justice, and criminology. In particular, her research focuses on causal analysis with observational data and the analysis of longitudinal and complex survey data applied to economic, health, and crime outcomes. Haviland currently serves on a National Research Council Panel assessing the research evidence on whether there is a deterrent effect of the death penalty. Other current research includes assessing the effects of high-deductible health plans on health care costs and use, determining relationships between patient safety and medical malpractice claims, and comparing disparities for Medicare beneficiaries across plan types and geography. She is the recipient of a Thomas Lord Distinguished Scholar Award, a MacArthur Fellowship for Younger Scholars, and a Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship. Haviland has published her work in journals including Psychometrika, Psychological Methods, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Survey Methodology, Criminology and Health Affairs. ANN LEE Ann Lee is an associate professor in the department of statistics at Carnegie Mellon University's Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a program co-director of the machine learning department in the School of Computer Science. Prior to joining CMU in 2005, Lee was the J.W. Gibbs Assistant Professor in the department of mathematics at Yale University. Lee, who received her doctorate from Brown University, served as a visiting research associate at Brown's department of applied mathematics. In her research, Lee tackles the many challenges of extracting meaningful and accurate information from large databases of high-dimensional data. Her research involves areas as diverse as astrophysics, population genetics, and atmospheric sciences. Lee has contributed novel statistical methods for non-standard estimation problems with high-dimensional data such as images, spectra, and distributions that are not amenable to traditional statistical analysis. She is the recipient of government grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation. Ann has received a number of fellowships including the Galkin Foundation Fellowship, the Burroughs Wellcome Fellowship, and the Professor R. Bruce Lindsay Fellowship. Her work has appeared in publications including Statistical Methodology, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Applied Statistics and Genetic Epidemiology. The Anna Loomis McCandless Professorship and The Estella Loomis McCandless Professorship The McCandless Professorships were established by the late Anna Loomis McCandless; the Estella Loomis McCandless Professorship was named for her mother. Anna Loomis McCandless was a 1919 graduate of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, which closed in 1973. Margaret Morrison was an all-women's school that was one of the four original colleges in the Carnegie Institute of Technology, a predecessor of Carnegie Mellon. A native of Pittsburgh, McCandless worked for a private investor and then Fidelity Trust Co. after graduating from Carnegie Tech. She became the first female member of the Carnegie Mellon Board of Trustees in 1967 and was named a life trustee in 1973. She was the longest serving female trustee, having served on the board for 29 years. In 1963, McCandless received Carnegie Mellon's Alumni Service Award. The McCandless Professorships are awarded every three years to two junior faculty members who have shown great promise in their field.
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