![]() ![]() When he gets high, he blows an important opportunity, but he makes a friend. Marty is an alcoholic, and even though that makes him miss an important event and it's harming his relationship with his kids, he's also having a great time. There's not much here to appeal to kids and teens, and that's probably a good thing: Director Matt Ratner sends mixed messages about drug and alcohol use. Standing Up, Falling Down asks, in the characters' words, this question: Once you've "f-ked up" a relationship, can you "unf-k" it? The themes include life-altering mistakes, depression, suicide, infidelity, death, and lots of regret - and it's hilarious. The siblings' interactions are full of quick-witted burns and loving slams. ![]() Then there's Scott's other dynamic pairing: his relationship with his sister, Megan (brilliantly played by Grace Gummer). Scott is a comedian, and humor roils in all of the little interactions of life - whether it be a dad who doesn't stop watching TV to greet an estranged son or a mother who doesn't knock. But the zippy patter goes well beyond that. Their interactions are comfortable, and the dialogue so natural you might think they wrote it themselves (which is a real credit to screenwriter Peter Hoare). As Scott and Marty, the two comedians almost feel like extensions of each other. It feels authentic, nostalgic, exciting, and right. The duo make a sensational comedy team, combining the old guard with the new. Some recent publications from my bioinformatics collaborations are "Transcription Start Site Context Promoters" (Genome Biology, 2020) and "Photperiodic Response in Switchgrass" (Plant Cell and Environment, 2019), while some of my earlier statistical publications include "Confounding in Principal Stratification" (Statistics in Medicine, 2012), "Dirichlet Process Principal Stratification" (JASA, 2011), and "Birthweight and Censored Gestational Age" (Statistics in Medicine, 2010).Crystal and Schwartz are comedy prizefighters: One jibs, the other jabs, and viewers are knocked out. With the advent of COVID, I returned to North America and to academia, first teaching in the new School of Data Science at the University of Virginia before moving to U of T. This quickly led to a move to New York city and a data science industry position with a heathtech startup, and then a move to Stockholm, Sweden for a position with a fintech startup. My focus during these years had centered on bioinformatics but, eventually eager for another adventure, I left academia to teach data science in a disruptive education context with an entrepreneurial start up. I took my first courses at the local community college, but eventually transferred to Trinity University in San Antonio where I discovered programming and statistics, and won a National Championship while playing with the soccer team! I left Texas to get a PhD in Statistical Sciences at Duke University in North Carolina, but then returned to my home state where I tried out both sides of the Texas experience, first spending time at Texas A&M in College Station and then the University of Texas at Austin. Never shy for adventure, I dived into a couple years of public school and then started college early after being homeschooled for much of my life. ![]() ![]() Resources for Students, Faculty & Staff.Research Opportunities, Scholarships & Awards. ![]()
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