Looking back and looking beyond
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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Professor of the Practice at Duke University and Developer Educator at Posit. Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education as well as pedagogical approaches for enhancing retention of women and under-represented minorities in STEM. Mine works on the OpenIntro project, whose mission is to make educational products that are free, transparent, and lower barriers to education. As part of this project she co-authored four open-source introductory statistics textbooks – latest is the 2nd edition of Introduction to Modern Statistics. She is also a co-author on R for Data Science, the creator and maintainer of Data Science in a Box, and she teaches popular data analysis and data science with R courses on Coursera. Mine is a Fellow of the ASA and Elected Member of the ISI as well as a Waller and Hogg award winner for teaching excellence. In 2024, she was elected as Vice President of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE).