2017 Scholarship Winners

2017 Faculty Scholarship Recipients

Recipients must be employed with a teaching or research assignment at an accredited degree-granting college or university in the WUSS region, and plan to use SAS in teaching or research during the upcoming academic year. Faculty scholarships include complimentary conference registration, lodging, a half-day seminar class, and assistance with travel.

Shannon Pileggi
Assistant Professor of Statistics
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Many Means to a Mean
Best Paper Winner

Dr. Wendy Wang
Department Chair of Information Management Technology and Computer Science
Trident University
Lessons Learned in Building a Successful SAS® Business Analytic Program

Chong Ho (Alex) Yu
Associate Professor in Psychology
Azusa Pacific University
Nonlinear Modeling with Big Data in SAS® and JMP
Best Paper Winner

2017 Student Scholarship Recipients

Recipients must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited degree-granting college or university in the WUSS region for the upcoming academic year. Student scholarships include complimentary conference registration, a half-day seminar class, and assistance with lodging.

Rachel Bolanos
University of California at Los Angeles

Lillian Chow
California State University, San Francisco
Categorical Data: Comparing SAS® and R for Logistic and Poisson Regression

Shikha Chugh
California State University, East Bay

Mitchell Collins
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
NFL Data Analytics for a New Era
Best Paper Winner

Chunshuai Feng
California State University, San Diego

Evelyn Fox
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Exploratory Analysis of the Factors Related to Gun Mortality

Anna Freydenzon
Arizona State University

Gabrielle Ilenstine
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Exploratory Analysis of the Factors Related to Gun Mortality

Jing Ji
California State University, San Diego

Stephanie Mendoza
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Exploratory Analysis of the Factors Related to Gun Mortality

Olumayowa Oyedele
Claremont Graduate University

Dominique Sullivan Marks
Colorado School of Public Health

Maria Elsa Vazquez Arreola
Arizona State University
Analyzing Multiple Membership Hierarchical Data Using PROC GLIMMIX

Yan Wang
University of California, Los Angeles

Mostafa Zahedjahromi
University of Northern Colorado
Validation of Regression Models in SAS®