Kimberly Roth

Teaching Professor
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Kimberly
Roth
she/her/hers
Teaching Professor
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Statistical Techniques for Microbiome Analysis
Statistics, Data Science and Mathematics Education
Art of Visualizing Data and Math
Recreational Mathematics
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Biography

Kim Roth is a Teaching Professor of Statistics at Penn State.

 

She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Penn State in 2002 and her Masters in applied statistics from Penn State’s World Campus in 2016. Her bachelors degree is in mathematics with a minor in computer science from Oberlin College in 1996 and she spend the 1996-1997 academic year at the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics.

 

Kim is a statistician for the genomics lab of Regina Lamendella at Juniata and works on statistical techniques for microbiome analysis. Her other research interests include scholarship of teaching and learning in statistics, data science, and mathematics, art of data and mathematics, and recreational mathematics. She is a member of the 24 person team of the Mathemalchemy Project, a room sized math and art installation. She is an associate editor for the College Mathematics Journal and on the editorial board for Scatterplot: The MAA Journal of Data Science.

 

Prior to coming to Penn State in 2025, she was a Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Juniata College where she helped found the data science program including the Masters of Data Science. She was at Wheeling University from 2002 to 2006.

 

Awards

  • Beachley Award for Distinguished Service (2023) from Juniata College

  • Dex Whittinghill Award (2022) from the SIGMAA Statistics and Data Science Education

  • Distinguished Faculty Mentor of Undergraduate Mathematics Students Award(2022) from the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America

  • Robert V. Hogg Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics(2019) from the SIGMAA Statistics and Data Science Education

  • Service Award(2017) from the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America

  • Project NExT Fellow (2002-2003) from the MAA

Selected Publications

  • “Calculus Corequisite Model at a Small Liberal Arts College'',  John Bukowski, Kristin Camenga, Henry Escuadro, Jerry Kruse, Kim Roth, chapter for Mathematical Association of America Notes volume on co-requisite models, to appear.

  • Review of The Future of Data Science: a collection of works by data designers, scientists, and artists and Our Environment: a collection of works by data designers, scientists, and artists, Reviews. The American Mathematical Monthly(2024), 132(1), 100–104. 

  • “Hiring a data scientist", Roth, K. A. (2024). Hiring a Data Scientist. Scatterplot(2024), 1(1).

  • “Math and Democracy," with Erika Ward, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 13 Issue 2 (July 2023), pages 86-101.

  • “A Mathematician Knits an Afghan and Counts the Number of Possible Patterns", Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Submission for Special Issue on Mathematics and Fiber Arts. April 2023.

  • “Biological correlates with degree of introgressive hybridization between coyotes Canis latrans and wolves Canis lupis in Pennsylvania, USA'' Erin Pfeffer, Kelsey Barth, Lucas Bitsko, Natalie Gibson, Kim Roth, Eric Butler, Uma Ramakrishnan, Vincent Patrick Buonaccorsi, American Midland Naturalist, October 2022.

  • "Geochemistry and multiomics data differentiate streams in Pennsylvania based on unconventional oil and gas activity."  Maria Campa, Jeremy Chen See, Lavinia Unverdorben, Olivia Wright, Kimberly Roth, Jonathan Niles, Daniel Ressler, Ella Macatugal, Andrew Putt, Stephen Techtmann, Timothy Righetti, Terry Hazen, and Regina Lamendella. Microbiology Spectrum, vol. 10, n. 5, October 2022.

  • “Mathemalchemy: A Playful Pandemic Project” with Jessica Sklar, MAA FOCUS, October/November 2021.

  • "Hiring a Statistician in a Mathematics Department", MAA FOCUS,  October/November 2019.

  • "On Becoming a Statistician", MAA FOCUS,  December 2017/January 2018.

  • "Bacterial Community Dynamics in Dichloromethane-Contaminated Groundwater Undergoing Natural Attenuation .",  Wright Justin, Kirchner Veronica, Bernard William, Ulrich Nikea, McLimans Christopher, Campa Maria F., Hazen Terry, Macbeth Tamzen, Marabello David, McDermott Jacob, Mackelprang Rachel, Roth Kimberly, Lamendella Regina. Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 8, 2017. 

  • “The Genomics Leadership Initiative at Juniata College." Buonaccorsi, V.,Roney J., Keeney, J. , Roth, K., Juniata Voices, 2015.