Dr. Emily S. Murphree is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Stats at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of North Carolina and does research in applied probability. Dr. Murphree received Miami’s College of Arts and Science Distinguished
Educator Award in 1998. In 1996, she was named one of Oxford’s Citizens of the Year for organizing annual Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematical Sciences Days for area high school girls and for her work with Habitat for Humanity. Her enthusiasm for hiking in wilderness areas of the West motivates her current research on estimating animal population sizes.