Faculty Recognition
Kass Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Robert E. Kass, the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Kass has been recognized for his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Kass joined the Department of Statistics & Data Science in 1981 and served as department head from 1995 to 2004. He also holds faculty appointments at the Neuroscience Institute and in the Department of Machine Learning. From 2015 to 2018, he served as interim co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint effort of CMU and Pitt.
Robert E. Kass
Skibba Researches Student Perceptions of Inclusivity, Anti-racism as Dean’s Innovation Scholar
Candace Skibba, associate teaching professor of Hispanic studies, joined Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Modern Languages in 2006. She specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and film, and her research focuses on the intersection of literary and film studies and studies of the body, including gender analysis, dis/ability studies and health humanities. Skibba’s work as a Dean’s Innovation Scholar seeks to understand student perceptions of inclusivity and anti-racism in their classes. The initial goals of this project involve corpus analysis of syllabi, creation of a taxonomy of terms and bibliographical inquiry carried out by Skibba along with the student researchers in the RadLab.
Candace Skibba
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