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  • Alumni Story: Scott Elliff ’75

    November 1, 2014

    My career has included the ongoing use of math and social sciences as combined disciplines. Whether quantitative analysis of federal programs as a staffer at the White House Office of Management and Budget or crunching numbers related to consumer buying patterns as part of private business consulting work that I did for a number of years, or more recently assessing effectiveness of different advertising and marketing programs for the boutique Virginia winery that I own, the concept of applying quantitative methods to social sciences lives strong.

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  • Alumni Story: Eric Wadsworth ’74

    November 1, 2014

    My MSS degree has been invaluable my entire career. After programming computers for a few years I got an MBA and moved into finance. I did a stint as a CPA in public accounting and then became a CFO for several years. 10 years ago I completed an PhD in Business and now I have appointments at Geisel School of Medicine and the Tuck School of Business where I teach healthcare finance and am the Faculty Director of Dartmouth’s Masters in Healthcare Delivery Science (MHCDS) program. I also teach in the management and the strategy courses.  

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  • Alumni Story: Philip Nelson ’73

    November 1, 2014

    Leading economics Ph.D. programs select their graduate students largely based on their aptitude in mathematics. My Math and Social Sciences honors major undoubtedly helped pull me out of the pack of applicants, allowing me to get into the Yale Ph.D. program (not to mention finish the program). (10/2014)

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  • Alumni Story: Paul Velleman ’71

    November 1, 2014

    I earned a PhD in Statistics from Princeton. I then joined the Department of Social Statistics at Cornell in 1975, where I’ve taught since then. (For a coincidental link, the Department’s home is the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, which turned out to be the undergraduate school of Nick Mullins, who was my social science side advisor at Dartmouth—but I didn’t know that until I came here.)  

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  • Alumni Story: David Andersen ’70

    November 1, 2014

    My whole career for the past 40 plus years has been built directly upon work that I started in my BA thesis in MSS at Dartmouth. I wrote about the application of computing and mathematical models to support decision making in rural New England towns. That was 1970. In 1977, I graduated from MIT’s Sloan school working in system dynamics and computer modeling (I had first encountered this field in a senior seminar at Dartmouth). I have been teaching simulation modeling to masters and PhD students in public administration and information science at the University at Albany ever since 1977.

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