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COL Rod Sturdivant

Academy Professor, Associate Professor
US Army

Contact Information:
Office Location: Thayer Hall, Room 251
Phone: 4010
Email: Rodney.Sturdivant@usma.edu

COL Sturdivant is the Program Director for the Core Mathematics Program. He is also the Founding Director of the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics (CDAS).

Courses Taught

West Point

MA103 Discrete Dynamical Systems and Introduction to Calculus
MA104 Single Variable Calculus
MA205 Multivariable Calculus
MA206 Probability and Statistics
MA153 Advanced Multivariable Calculus
MA376 Applied Statistics
MA385 Chaos and Fractals
MA476 Mathematical Statistics
MA488 Sabermetrics
MA491 Senior Thesis
MA498 Senior Honors Thesis

Ohio State

PUBH-BIO 601 Statistical Methods for Public Health Practice I
PUBH-BIO 726 Advanced Longitudinal Data Analysis
PUBH-BIO 799 Independent Study (Hierarchical Models)

Baylor

Thesis committee member, D.Sc. in Physical Therapy

Relevant Positions Held

Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point

Instructor, 1995-1998
Course Director, MA103, 1997 – 1998
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1998, 2003 – 2005
Program Director, Differential Calculus Program (MA114 and MA104), 2003 – 2007
Academy Professor, 2006
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2007
Program Director, Probability and Statistics Program (MA206), 2007 – 2010
Founding Director, Center for Data Analysis and Statistics (CDAS), 2003 – Present
Program Director, Core Mathematics Program (MA100, MA101, MA103, MA153 MA104, MA205,MA255, MA206), 2011 - Present

Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University

Visiting Associate Professor, 2010-2011

Doctoral Program in Sports Medicine, Graduate School, Baylor University

Adjunct Professor, 2005-present

Committees and Professional Service

Independent Data Monitoring Biostatistician (IDMB), Ft. Benning clinical trial, 2011.
Scientific Reviewer, IDCRP, USUHS/Ft. Benning, 2012.
Executive Board, Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), 2004-present.
Government Steering Committee, four MURI, Army Research Office, 2007-present.
Statistical Consultant, Department of Defense (DoD) Leishmania PCR Diagnostic Device FDA approval validation plans and studies, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), 2004-2010.
Army Research Office (ARO) Strategic Planning Committee, 2008.
International Contest in Modeling (ICM), Associate Director, 2008-present, Final Grading Team, 2008-present, Triage grading 2004-present.
Session Chair and Organizer, Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS) 2005-present.
AP Statistics Examination Reader, 2005 - 2008.
Steering Committee, ARO Language for Intelligent Machines (LIMES) Workshop, West Point, 2006.
Leadership team, Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) Leadership Initiative Seminar, West Point, 2005.
Math, Science and Engineering (MSE) Goal Team, Assessment Steering Committee, 2011-present.
Engineering and Technology Goal Team, Assessment Steering Committee, 2011-present.
Faculty Council, 2004-present.
Author of new minor in Statistics (3rd minor approved at West Point), 2008.
Academy Professor Search Committee (Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering), 2008.
Scholarship Committee, United States Military Academy, 2006-present.
Institutional Review Board (IRB), United States Military Academy, 2005-present.
Admissions Committee, United States Military Academy, 2006-2010.
Teaching Committee, United States Military Academy, 2006-2009.
Creativity Goal Team, United States Military Academy, 2007-2010.
Department of Mathematical Sciences Rotating M.S. Selection committee member, 2005, 2009, 2010.
Lead organizer “Real Data: the Art of Statistical Analysis”, Conference held at West Point, April 2008.
Steering Committee, Faculty Development Workshop Conference, West Point, New York, 2007.
Department of Mathematical Sciences Rotating Ph.D. Selection committee co-chair, 2006-current.
Planning Committee, Biology & Mathematics Conference/Workshop, West Point, New York, 2006.
Lead organizer and planner for the “CDAS Conference on Statistical Consulting”, October 2005.
Liaison Professor for North Carolina State M.S. students from USMA math department, 2006-2009.
Liaison Professor with Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, 2005-2010.
Selection Committee member, Hollis Award (best cadet operations research project), 2006 - 2010.
Co-Chair, Calculus textbook search committee, 2005.
Member, Differential Equations textbook search committee, 2004.
Head Officer in Charge and founder, West Point String Ensemble Club, 2005-2010.
Head Officer in Charge, West Point Cadet Glee Club, 2006- present.
Head Officer in Charge, Officer Christian Fellowship (OCF) Club, 2009-2010.
Officer Representative, Officer Christian Fellowship (OCF) Club, 2007-present.
Officer Representative and class of 2007 leader, Officer Christian Fellowship (OCF) Club, 2003-2007.
Cadet Academic Counselor (CAC), Cadet Company G-1/B-2, 2005-2010.
Officer Representative, Army Volleyball team, 1995-1998.
Cadet Honor Education Team (CHET) member, Cadet Company H-3, 1995-1997.
Journal Reviews/Referee: Biometrika, Statistics in Medicine, Journal of Wildlife Management, Journal of Field Ornithology, Circulation (the Journal of the American Heart Association), Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies (PRIMUS)., Army Research Office (ARO) proposals
Memberships: American Statistical Association (ASA), Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Tutorials and Workshops

Sturdivant, R. (2011), “Applied Logistic Regression”, invited two day tutorial for the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Annapolis, Maryland.
Sturdivant, R. (2010), “Logistic Regression”, invited short course for the Boston Area SAS User’s Group (BASUG), Boston, Massachusetts.
Horton, S. and Sturdivant, R. (2006), “Discrete Dynamical Systems and Problem Solving”, MAA Minicourse at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, Texas.

Funded Proposals and Awards

Kuiper, S., and Sturdivant, R. (2011), “Playing Games with a Purpose”, National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant 2011-2014.
Sturdivant, R. (2009), General Omar N. Bradley Research Fellowship in Mathematics.
Sturdivant, R. (2009), “Center for Data Analysis and Statistics research”, Army Research Office (ARO).
Sturdivant, R. (2008), “Real Data: the Art of Statistical Analysis”, Army Research Office (ARO).
Cameron, K., Sturdivant, R., Marshall, S., and Lincoln, A. (2008), “Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome among US Service Members between 1997 and 2007”, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) Grant 2008-2011.
Sturdivant, R. (2007), General Omar N. Bradley Research Fellowship in Mathematics.
Sturdivant, R. (2007), “Goodness of Fit in Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models.” Dean’s Faculty Development and Research Fund.
Sturdivant, R. (2007), “Supporting the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics”, Army Research Office (ARO).
Sturdivant, R. (2006), “Founding the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics”, Army Research Office (ARO).
Sturdivant, R. (2005), “Goodness of Fit in Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models.” Dean’s Faculty Development and Research Fund.

Publications

Cameron K., Marshall S., Sturdivant R., Lincoln A. (accepted 2012). “Trends in the incidence of physician-diagnosed mild traumatic brain Injury among active duty US military personnel between 1997 and 2007”, The Journal of Neurotrauma.
Jones, J., Burks, R., Owens, B., DeBerardino, T., Sturdivant, R. and Cameron, K. (2012), “The Incidence and Risk Factors Associated with Meniscus Injuries Among Active Duty U.S. Military Service Members”, Journal of Athletic Training.
Sturdivant, R. and Souhan, B. (2011), “Peer to Peer Teaching Using Multi-disciplinary Applications as Topics”, Primus 21(3), 283-293.
Wolf, J., Mountcastle, S., Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., and Owens, B. (2010), “Epidemiology of Lateral and Medial Epicondylitis in a Military Population”, Military Medicine, 175(5), 336-339.
Hsiao,M., Owens, B., Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., and Cameron, K. (2010), “Incidence of Acute Traumatic Patellar Dislocation among Active Duty U.S. Military Service Members”, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 38:12, 1997-2004.
Lugo-Roman, L., Rico, P., Sturdivant, R., Burks, R. and Settle, T. (2010), “Effects of serial anesthesia using ketamine or ketamine/medetomidine on hematology and serum biochemistry values in rhesus macaques (Macaca Mulatta)”, Journal of Medical Primatology, 39:1, 41-49.
Sturdivant, R. and Watts, K. (2010), “Modeling an Outbreak of Anthrax”, Primus 20:4, 344-361.
Huber, M. and Sturdivant, R. (2010), “Building a Model for Scoring 20 or More Runs in a Baseball Game”, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 4(2), 791-804.
Scher, D., Owens, B., Sturdivant, R. and Wolf, J. (2010), “Incidence of Joint Hypermobility Syndrome in a Military Population: Impact of Gender and Race”, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 468(7), 1790-1795.
Taylor, D., DeBerardino, T., Nelson, B., Duffey, M., Tenuta, J., Stoneman, P., Sturdivant, R. and Mountcastle, S. (2009), “Patellar Tendon Versus Hamstring Tendon Autographs for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction”, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 37, 1946-1957.
Sturdivant, R., Dunham, P., and Jardine, R. (2009), “Preparing Mathematics Teachers for Technology-Rich Environments”, Primus, 19(2), 161-173.
Wolf, J., Sturdivant, R. and Owens, B. (2009), “Incidence of De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis in a Young, Active Population”, Journal of Hand Surgery, 34(1), 112-115.
Bean, K., Nemelka, K., Canchola, P., Hacker, S., Sturdivant, R., and Rico, P. (2008), “Effects of housing density on Long Evans and Fischer 344 rats”, LabAnimal, 37(9).
Nemelka, K., Bean, K., Sturdivant, R., and Rico, P. (2008), “Effects of High Density Housing on Behavioral and Physiologic Parameters in F344 Rats and Long Evans Rats (Rattus norvegicus)”, Online Journal of Veterinary Research, 12(1), 28-38.
Crowder, T., Beekley, M., Sturdivant, R., Johnson, C., and Lumpkin, A. (2007), “Metabolic effects of soldier simulated graded road march while wearing two functionally equivalent military ensembles”, Military Medicine, 172, 6, 596-602.
Sturdivant, R., Rotella, J., and Russell, R. (2007), “A Smoothed Residual Based Goodness-of-Fit Statistic for Nest-Survival Models”, Studies in Avian Biology, 34, 45-54.
Sturdivant, R., and Hosmer, D. (2007), “A smoothed residual based goodness-of-fit statistic for logistic hierarchical regression models”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 8, 3898-3912.
Sturdivant, R. (1997), “Uncle Euler Games”, PRIMUS, VII, 4, 329-333.

Presentations

Sturdivant, R. (2012), “Euler games for differential equations“, invited presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sturdivant, R., Kuiper, S., Kaczynski, B., Jackson, J., and Cummiskey, K. (2012), “Playing games with a purpose: a new approach to teaching and learning statistics“, poster presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cameron, K., Marshall, S., Sturdivant, R., and Lincoln, A., (2011), “Incidence Rates for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Among Active Duty US Military Personnel between 1997 and 2007”, presentation at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Cameron, K., Sturdivant, R., Marshall, S., and Lincoln, A., (2011), “Trends in the incidence of persistent postconcussion syndrome among active duty US military personnel between 1997 and 2007”, presentation at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Cameron, K., Marshall, S., Lincoln, A., and Sturdivant, R., (2011), “Trends in the Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury and Related Conditions among Active Duty U.S. Service Members between 1997 and 2007”, presentation at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Annapolis, MD.
Sturdivant, R. (2010), “SASabermetrics: PROC Logistic in the Hall of Fame”, invited presentation at the Boston Area SAS User’s Group (BASUG) quarterly meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cameron, K., Sturdivant, R., Marshall, S., and Lincoln, A. (2010), “Trends in the Incidence of Persistent Postconcussion Syndrome among Active Duty U.S. Service Members between 1997 and 2007”, presentation at the Force Health Protection Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
Huber, M. and Sturdivant, R. (2010), “Building a Model for Scoring 20 or More Runs in a Baseball Game,” invited presentation at the Regional Hot Stove Meeting of the Connie Mack Chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Huber, M. and Sturdivant, R. (2010), “A Model for Scoring 20+ Runs in a Baseball Game,” invited presentation at The MAA New Jersey Section Meeting, Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey.
Wattenberg, F., Wright, A., Sturdivant, R. and Davis, N. (2009), “TigerSTAT: A First Person Shooter Game for Statistics Education”, presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C.
Cameron, K., Sturdivant, R., Marshall, S., DeBerardino, T. and Lincoln, A. (2009), “Incidence of traumatic brain injury, mild traumatic brain injury and postconcussion syndrome among U.S. service members between 1997 and 2007”, presentation at the Military Health Research Forum, Kansas City, MO.
Sturdivant, R., Burks, R., Owens, B., Wolf, J., and Cameron, K. (2009), “Epidemiological Studies in the Military“, presentation at the Joint Statistics Meetings, Washington, D.C.
Jones, J., Burks, R., Owens, B., DeBerardino, T., Sturdivant R., and Cameron, K. (2009), “Incidence of meniscal injuries in the U.S. Military: Demographic and occupational risk factors in a high risk population”, paper presented at the 2009 NATA Annual Meeting and Clinical Symposium, San Antonio, TX.
Helms, J. and Sturdivant, R. (2009), “An Interdisciplinary Project for Statistics and Physics“, presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C.
Helms, J., Sturdivant, R. and Wattenberg, F. (2009), “Developing a Video Tutorial Library to Service Upper Level MSE Courses“, presentation (listed under Smith, C.) at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C.
Sturdivant, R., Watts, K. (2008), “Modeling West Point Graduates Retention“, invited presentation for the BAAFEX (British, Australian and American Forecasting Exchange) Conference, West Point, MY.
Sturdivant, R., Watts, K. (2008), “Studies in Military Medicine from the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics (CDAS) at West Point“, invited presentation for the Washington Statistical Society (American Statistical Association, ASA) Seminar Series, Washington, DC.
Sturdivant, R. (2008), “Anthrax, Killer Bees and Murder to Motivate Statistics“, presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, California. Outstanding Contributed Paper in Statistics Education.
Sturdivant, R., and Watts, K. (2007), “Studies in Military Medicine from the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics (CDAS) at West Point“, paper presented at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Watts, K., Sturdivant, R., Piantanida, N., Phillips, G. (2007), “Use of a Lumbar Support in Relieving Lower Back Pain in Helicopter Crews“, paper presented at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., Cameron, K., Watts, K. (2007), “Shoulder Dislocation in Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel“, paper presented at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Rice University, Houston, Texas. (gave presentation for first author)
Crowder, T., Vanderburgh, P., Sturdivant, R., Johnson, C., Leth, A., Gelineau, J., Newsom, J., Daniels, G., Schaefer, S. (2007), “Creation of a Correction Factor via Allometry to Eliminate Body Mass Influence on the Army's Physical Fitness Test”, poster at the 54th Annual American College of Sports Medicine Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Souhan, B., Sturdivant, R., and Burks, R. (2007), “Involving Students in their Own Learning: a Follow-up”, presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sturdivant, R. (2007), “Center for Data Analysis and Statistics”, poster at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana.
DeRosset, W. and Sturdivant, R. (2006), “Patterned Armor Performance Against Multiple Impacts”, presented (as poster) paper at the 25th Annual Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida.
Watts, K. and Sturdivant, R. (2006), “Value Added Outcomes in Military Service Educational Programs: Comparing New and Old Technologies and Methods“, paper presented at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Research Triangle, North Carolina.
Sturdivant, R., Heidenberg, A. and Souhan, B. (2006), “Involving Students in their Own Learning”, presentation at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, Texas.
Sturdivant, R., Melendez, B. and Glen, A. (2005), “Do We Have to Change? Isn’t Math Just Math?”, presentation at the TALENT Conference, West Point, New York.
Krahn, G., Small, D., Sturdivant, R., Melendez, B. and Glen, A. (2005), “An Institutional Case Study”, invited session and presentation at the Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) Leadership Initiative Seminar, West Point, New York.
Sturdivant, R., Somers, B., Kasube, H. and Hastings, N. (2005), “First Semester Calculus, Meeting the Needs of Our Students”, panel discussion at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia.
DeRosset, W. and Sturdivant, R. (2004), “Investigation of Multiple Hits on Light Armor”, presented paper at the ARL/USMA Technical Symposium, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
Sturdivant, R. (2004), “Establishing the Center for Data Analysis and Statistics (CDAS) at the United States Military Academy”, paper presented at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Atlanta, Georgia.
Sturdivant, R. (2004), “Residual Based Goodness-of-fit Statistics for Logistic Hierarchical Regression Models”, paper presented at the Army Conference on Applied Statistics (ACAS), Atlanta, Georgia.
Sturdivant, R. (2003), “Logistic Hierarchical Models: An Introduction”, invited talk for the Department of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, Keene State University, Keene, New Hampshire.
Sturdivant, R. (1996), "Nonparametric Methods for Multivariate Analysis using Statistically Equivalent Blocks", paper presented at the ARL/USMA Technical Symposium, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

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