Dr. Roxy Peck is Associate Dean Emerita of the College of Science and Mathematics, and Professor of Statistics Emerita at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. A faculty member at Cal Poly from 1979 until 2009, Roxy served for 6 years as Chair of the Statistics Department before becoming Associate Dean, a position she held for 13 years. Roxy received an M.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from the University of California, Riverside. She is nationally known in the area of statistics education, and she was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Statistics Education at the U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics in 2009. In 2003, she received the American Statistical Association’s Founder’s Award, recognizing her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education.

Dr. Peck is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistics Institute. She served for 5 years as the Chief Reader for the Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics Exam and has chaired the American Statistical Association’s Joint Committee with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for Grades K-12 and the Section on Statistics Education. In addition to her textbooks in introductory statistics, Roxy is also co-editor of “Statistical Case Studies: A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry” and a member of the editorial board for “Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, 4th Edition.” Outside the classroom, Peck likes to travel and spends her spare time reading mystery novels.