Barry Nussbaum:  

Life After Jamaica High, it was off to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for four pretty tough years as a math major. Somehow, I didn’t get to spend a year strolling along the Seine as many of today’s college students do. After my B.S., I came to Washington to take a job in the defense industry. A nifty way to stay out of Vietnam, as the Jamaica draft board was grabbing everyone they could. In the evenings, I pursued a master’s degree in operations research at George Washington University. After that I still liked school so I entered the doctoral program, still working by day, studying at night. In 1978, I finally wore my cap, gown and hood and became the academic type “doctor”. By then, I had also switched jobs to the Environmental Protection Agency. I have now been there for 29 years, and have had some terrific assignments as a statistician for EPA. I developed a sampling plan to recall 360,000 Chrylser vehicles by testing only ten of them. This was fun to tell to the judge, but we won the case!! I was also the branch chief in charge of the program that got r...Expand for more