Dr. Lucy Kerns received her PhD in Statistics from Bowling Green State University in 2006. She is currently working as an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Youngstown State University, where she also serves as the Statistics Coordinator and co-director of the Mathematical and Statistical Consulting Center. Her research interests have been focused mainly on simultaneous inferential techniques, environment risk assessment and environmental toxicology, and robust statistical methods. At YSU, she has taught statistics at all levels from introductory to graduate level, and has supervised 10 graduated students and guided 5 undergraduate students with their projects.