Marian Frazier

My research focuses around public health and evidence-based medicine, with an ongoing project evaluating the clinical and educational impact of Wooster’s unique Community Care Network program, which pairs patients with undergraduate “Health Coaches”.

I am Co-Director of Wooster’s Applied Methods & Research Experience, a summer consulting service where Wooster students are hired by a local business, industry, or agency. These students work in teams to develop solutions for the client, while gaining valuable industry experience and professional skills.

Additionally, I have an interest in statistics education research and curricular design, and earned a graduate minor in college teaching along with my Ph.D. I believe in including high-impact practices at all levels of the curriculum and I am dedicated to continuously exploring new ways to improve my students’ experience and learning.

• Calculus & Analytical Geometry I
• Introduction to Statistics
• Applied Statistical Methods
• Data Visualization
• Probability Theory (Prob/Stats I)
• Statistical Theory (Prob/Stats II)
• First Year Seminar

• Exploring the Dimensions of Students’ Happiness: Leveraging Technology to Explore Determinants and Strategies for Improvements (Ian Musumba, SDS, 2023)
• Investigating Long-term Effects of Birth Factors on Immune System Performance and Development (Katherine Stephens, self-designed major in Biostatistics, 2023)
• Empowering Healthcare Sustainability: The economic impact of Wooster’s Community Care Network for chronic disease management (Tyusha Sarawagi, SDS and Economics, 2023)
• Effect of the Covid19 Pandemic on Different Sectors of the US Economy (Duc Trinh, Statistical & Data Sciences and Business Economics, 2021)
• Identifying Non-Genetic Predictors of Alcoholism with the Aid of Reweighting Techniques (Trevor Krisan, Math, 2021)
• Is the Pandemic Racist? Trends in Coronavirus Case Rate and Death Rate in the U.S. (Mian Ahsan Ali, Math, 2021)
• Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches to Depressive Disorders Among Adults in the United States: From Factor Discovery to Prediction Evaluation (Minhwa Lee, Math and Computer Science, 2021)
• An Exploration of Retention and Persistence in STEM Fields at The College of Wooster (Harriet Sudduth, Math, 2020)
• A Theory of Fire Service Provision: with an empirical analysis of response time, suppression time, and service output (Hyong-gu “Alex” Hwang, Math and Economics, 2020)
• Ordinal Data Analysis: Determining the Effectiveness of Domestic Abuse Intervention in Adolescent Teens (Christian Santos, Math, 2020)
• The Difficulties of Modeling Virtual Water Using Gravity Models (Hope Hunter, Math, 2019)
• Gardening Algorithms for the Fruitful Future: Predicting Child Malnutrition Populations Globally (Kory Sansom, Math, 2019)
• You Are What You Eat: Regression Analysis of the Social Determi- nants of Diet (Callie Ogland-Hand, Math and Sociology, 2019)
• Understanding Human Well-Being (Scarlett Chen, Math and Philosophy, 2018)
• An Investigation of Markov Chains and Their Application to Hospital Patient Flow (Sarah Padrutt, Math, 2018)
• The Wheels on the Bus Don’t Go to Hartzler’s: An Alternate Solution to Wooster Transit Demands (Sam Carlson, Math, 2018)
• Impact of Mutual Fund Size on Overall Fund Performance (Wenxin Tang, Math and Business Economics, 2018)

• Perkins, S.W., Nielsen, P., Jolliff, A., Davis, A., Leighty, A., and Frazier, M., “Undergraduate Health Coaches: Reducing Hospital Utilization among Chronic Disease Patients”, under review.
• Gray, R., Faust, J., Painter, E., Sprankle, J., Crawford, A., Morrison, J., Frazier, M. (2022), “Suspect Screening for Pesticides in Rain and Snow Using Liquid Chromatography High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry”, Atmospheric Environment, 291.
• Buck, K., Stadick, J., and Frazier, M. (2020), “Preparing for Sperm-Targeted Contraception: College Students’ Perceptions and Intentions Related to Non- Hormonal Intravenous Injectable Gel”, Public Health Nursing, 37(5): 639-646.
• Frazier, M., LoFaro, T., and Dobler, C. P. (2017), “A Cross-Discipline Modeling Capstone Experience,” Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Under- graduate Studies (PRIMUS), 28(3): 266-282.