Dean L. Isaacson, Professor and
Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Administrative duties:

I was Department Head, Director of the Statistical Laboratory, and Director of Graduate Studies
from 1984-2002. The duties included administration of the Department of Statistics and the Statistical
Laboratory, mentoring of faculty, recruitment of graduate students, advising of new graduate students,
and placement of graduate students.  I continue to serve as Director of Graduate Education in the
Department.

Recent Courses Taught:

• Stat 104 - Introduction to Statistics
• Math 150 - Discrete Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences
• Math 514 - Measure Theory

Research Interests:

• Markov Chains (Homogeneous and Non-homogeneous)

Honors and Awards:

• 1980 Iowa State University Outstanding Teaching Award
• 1994 Fellow of American Statistical Association
  

Recent Presentations:

• "The Benefits and Costs of Outreach." Invited paper at the meeting of Department Chairs in
  the Mathematical Sciences, Washington, DC.  October 11-12, 1996.
• "Update on Statistics Parnerships among Academe, Industry and Government." Invited paper
  at the Twin Cities Chapter Meeting of ASA, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. 
  March 18, 1997.
• "Partnering with Departments on Campus." Invited paper at the SPAIG Conference, Raleigh,
  NC. May 30, 1997.
• "Partnerships between Colleges and Universities." Invited paper presented with Tom Moore
  (Grinnell College) at the Joint Statistical  Meetings, Anaheim, CA.  August 12, 1997.
• "Graduate Education at a Distance - The Iowa State Experience."  Invited paper presented
  at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD.  August 1999.
• "SPAIG Initiatives at Iowa State."  Invited paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings,
  Atlanta, GA, August 2001.

External Funding:

• "Collaborative Research between General Motors Corporation and Iowa State University."
  (NSF) 1997-1999.  Co-PI with Ken Koehler and Steve Vardeman.  $66,954.
• "VIGRE-Department of Statistics."  (NSF) 2001-2004.  Co-PI with Mark Kaiser.  $1,300,000.
• "Iowa Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate."  (NSF) 2002-2007.  Co-PI
  with Phil Kutzko of Iowa.  $2,400,000.
• "The Alliance for the Production of African American PhD's in the Mathematical Sciences."  
  (NSF) 2002-2005.  Co-PI with Phil Kutzko of Iowa.  $1,800,000.
  

Office

Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
102D Snedecor Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1210
Tel: 515-294-3440
Fax: 515-294-4040
email: dli@iastate.edu