LOS ANGELES - The new director of the Casden Real Estate Economics Forecast at the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate (www.usc.edu/lusk) is Delores Conway, Ph.D., associate professor of statistics at USC's Marshall School of Business.
Dr. Conway is widely respected for her research on financial pricing models and is currently studying price movements in the California housing market. She has been a member of the Lusk Center Research Committee for the past two years and on the faculty of the Marshall School since 1985. Much admired for her teaching skills, Dr. Conway was named the Marshall School's most popular professor in the 1998 Business Week survey of the Top 25 business schools. In 1999, she received the university's highest teaching honor - the University Associates Award for Excellence. She has served as associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Dr. Conway received her Ph.D. and master's degree in statistics from Stanford University, and undergraduate degrees in mathematics, statistics and computer methods from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was the first woman appointed to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business faculty where she taught for six years before joining USC in 1985.
Dr. Conway is currently analyzing data for the next Casden forecast on commercial real estate to be released in December of 2004. She can be reached at 213-740-4836 or dconway@marshall.usc.edu.
Dr. Conway will be taking over a position held for the past two years by Raphael Bostic, Ph.D. who is now director of the Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) program at the USC School of Policy Planning and Development.
Created in 1986, the MRED degree is among the oldest and most respected graduate degrees focused on real estate development in the country. The program prepares graduates for key positions in real estate development. Dr. Bostic can be reached directly at 213-740-1220 or via email: bostic@usc.edu.