Ombudspeople

Ombudspeople act as trusted intermediaries between individuals and various departmental constituencies or administrations. When approached, they will attempt to investigate, mediate, and resolve conflicts and inter-personnel issues that may arise in a course of job-related interactions among students, staff, and faculty in order to improve the working atmosphere in the department.

While ombudspeople will protect the individuals' privacy, they abide by the university policies such as mandatory reporting (harassment, crimes, etc.).

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Our proud Ombudspeople are:

David

Hunter

Professor of Statistics

Email:

drh20@psu.edu

Phone:

(814) 865-1348

Interests:

Computational Statistics, Network Analysis, Mixture Models

Francesca

Chiaromonte

Professor of Statistics, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences

Email:

fxc11@psu.edu

Phone:

(814) 865-7075

Interests:

High-dimensional & Undersampled data, Dimension Reduction & Feature Selection Methods, Regression & Multivariate Methods, Bioinformatics, "Omics" & Biomedical applications, Meteorology, Climate, Economics applications

If an individual prefers to talk to someone outside of the department, they may also choose to talk to any of the Eberly College of Science ombudspeople.