Clarice Ring Weinberg is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist who works for the

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in the Rese ...

as principal investigator in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch. Her research concerns

environmental epidemiology Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illnes ...

, and its combination with genetics in susceptibility to disease, including running the

Sister Study The Sister Study is a nationwide effort, conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to learn how the environment and genes may ...

on how environmental and genetic effects can lead to

breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...

. She has also published highly cited research on

fertility Fertility is the capability to produce offspring through reproduction following the onset of sexual maturity. The fertility rate is the average number of children born by a female during her lifetime and is quantified demographically. Fertili ...

Education and career

Weinberg is originally from Connecticut. She majored in mathematics at

Simmons College Institutions of learning called Simmons College or Simmons University include: * Simmons University, a women's liberal arts college in Boston, Massachusetts * Simmons College of Kentucky, a historically black college in Louisville, Kentucky * Har ...

, graduating in 1972, earned a master's degree in mathematics from

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

in 1974, and completed a Ph.D. in biomathematics from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

in 1980. Her dissertation, ''A Test for Clustering on the Circle'', was supervised by Lloyd Delbert Fisher Jr. After three years as an acting assistant professor at the University of Washington, she joined the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as a mathematical statistician in 1983. She became deputy chief of the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch in 1997, and has held an adjunct faculty appointment at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

since 1986.

Recognition

Weinberg was named a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

in 1995. She won the Nathan Mantel Award of the Statistics in Epidemiology Section of the American Statistical Association in 2005, in recognition of her lifetime contributions to "statistical methods developed to solve problems in epidemiology resulting from involvement in epidemiological analysis". She was also the 2005 winner of the Janet L. Norwood Award for outstanding achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weinberg, Clarice Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians American women statisticians American epidemiologists American women epidemiologists Biostatisticians Simmons University alumni Brandeis University alumni University of Washington alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association