Cavell Brownie (née Sherlock) is a Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

. Her research considered biometric methods and wildlife sampling.

Education and career

Brownie is African-American, and was born in

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. She earned her doctoral degree at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

in 1973, developing mathematical models to estimate bird populations. Her dissertation, ''Stochastic Models Allowing Age-Dependent Survival Rates for Banding Experiments on Exploited Bird Populations'', was supervised by D. S. Robson. Brownie was a faculty member at

from 1982 to 2007.

Research

Brownie's research involved wildlife sampling and biometric methods. Her publications include: * * *

Recognition

Brownie was awarded the George W. Snedecor award in 1983 and 1990, and the

D.D. Mason Faculty Award in 1988. She was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2003. The Department of Statistics at

award an annual Cavell Brownie Mentoring Faculty prize in her honor.

Personal life

Brownie married Cecil Brownie, a Veterinarian at

, in August 1968. Together they have two sons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brownie, Cavell Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Jamaican descent American statisticians North Carolina State University faculty Cornell University alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association African-American statisticians Women statisticians 21st-century African-American people