President Ángel Cabrera and Provost David Wu honored the university's most distinguished faculty at a reception held in the Atrium of the Long and Kimmy Nguyen Engineering Building on August 28. The honorees included William Rosenberger, Professor and Chair of the Volgenau School of Engineering's Department of Statistics who was named a University Professor.
Rosenberger received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from George Washington University's Statistics Department in 1992, and he has served as Department Chair at the Volgenau School since 2006. Rosenberger's principle research area is experimental design, randomization, and clinical trials.
This fall he will travel to Aachen, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar and conduct collaborative research at the RWTH University of Aachen Medical School. He will also spend his sabbatical in fall 2014 and spring 2015 writing the second edition of his 2001 book Randomization in Clinical Trials: Theory and Practice. The faculty at RWTH Aachen are involved in a €3 million grant from the European Union on methodology for clinical trials of rare diseases. Rosenberger will collaborate on problems involving the use of randomization in very small clinical trials.
The Volgenau School's Department of Statistics one of only four statistics departments in the nation housed in an engineering school. We think the fit is obvious. Engineers deal with modeling and data, and statistics is the science of data collection and analysis. Both disciplines are grounded in mathematical theory, computation, and modern information technology. We are fortunate to have such an outstanding teacher and scholar as a member of the faculty of the school.
