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7/7/03

SLU PROFESSOR AWARDED BIOMETRICS RESEARCH GRANT

CANTON – St. Lawrence University Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer 
Science and Statistics Michael E. Schuckers has been awarded a $55,000 grant 
for a biometric statistical research project. Three St. Lawrence undergraduate 
students will work with Schuckers on the project, to be conducted this summer 
on campus.
	The grant from the Center for Identification Technology Research, which 
is a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center 
based at West Virginia University (www.citer.wvu.edu) and in which St. Lawrence 
is a participating institution, will fund a project entitled "Comparison of 
Statistical Methods."  Schuckers and the student researchers will evaluate 
various statistical methods that have been proposed for estimating the 
false-reject and false-accept rates of biometric identification devices. 
Biometric identification devices include such tools as voice-recognition, 
iris- recognition and fingerprint scanners. Also as part of the project, 
they will develop software that companies can use to evaluate error rates 
based on their data.
      Schuckers is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, with a master's 
degree from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from Iowa State University. 
He taught at West Virginia University prior to joining the St. Lawrence faculty 
in 2002, and has published widely in the field of statistics.

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