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Deborah Rumsey has a PhD in Statistics from The Ohio State University (1993). Upon graduating, she joined the faculty in the Department of Statistics at Kansas State University, winning the distinguished Presidential Teaching Award and earning tenure and promotion in 1998. In 2000, she returned to Ohio State and is now a Statistics Education Specialist/Auxiliary Faculty Member for the Department of Statistics. Dr. Rumsey has served on the American Statistical Association’s Statistics Education Executive Committee and as the Editor of the Teaching Bits Section of the Journal of Statistics Education. She’s the author of the book Statistics For Dummies (Wiley), and she has published many papers and given many professional presentations on the subject of statistics education. Her particular research interests are curriculum materials development, teacher training and support, and immersive learning environments. Her passions, besides teaching, include her family, fishing, bird watching, driving a John Deere tractor, and Ohio State Buckeye football (not necessarily in that order).