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Statistics & Actuarial Science
University of Central Florida
P.O. Box 162370
Orlando, FL 32816-2370
Phone: 407-823-2289
Fax: 407-823-3930
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Recent Faculty Accomplishments

April 2008:

The National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) selected the University of Central Florida, and four other institutions nationwide, to participate in the second round of the Colleagues Committed to Redesign (C2R) program as part of the mathematics, statistics and computer science cluster. The redesign program which is part of a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) grant, focuses on redesigning existing courses to immprove student learning outcomes and reduce instructional costs. The team members are Piotr MIkusinski, Chief Academic Officer, Tammy Muhs and Maria Capursi , Lead Faculty Members, and Walter (JP) Peters, Chief Techonology Officer.

May 2005: Susan Schott has been recommended as a 2005 CAS Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award recipient. The TIP program rewards faculty for teaching productivity and excellence. Selection criteria include teaching quality and effectiveness, commitment to instruction, innovation, creativity, and productivity based on a portfolio of assignments and evaluations collected over the previous 4 academic years.

January 2005: Edgard Maboudou-Tchao: 2005, Winner of American Statistical Association Student Scholarship award to attend the Quality & Productivity Research Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

January 2005: Constance Cutchins was the UCF Teaching Incentive Program Award Recipient 2005-06

October 2004: Mark Johnson and Charles C. Watson, Jr. (Kinetic Analysis Corporation, Savannah, Georgia), wrote an article on hurricane research, which is featured on the cover of the November 2004 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

January 2003: David M. Nickerson: TIP Award

January 1996: Edgard Maboudou-Tchao: 1996,Distinguished Instructor Award; ENSI, Lome-Togo

January 1996: David M. Nickerson: TIP Award