Lori Thompson, a doctoral student in education, has been selected as the second CASE/Peter B. Wylie/SPSS Data Mining Intern at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Myron Eighmy, associate professor in the School of Education, is her major adviser.

This internship is for professionals interested in following a career path focused on data mining and predictive modeling in higher education and independent school advancement. It is named after SPSS Inc., a global provider of Predictive Analytics software and solutions, and Peter B. Wylie, a national expert and leading author in the field of data mining.

Thompson will begin her two-month summer internship at CASE headquarters in Washington, D.C., in July.

"This internship will provide Lori with the resources to work on a data mining and predictive modeling project that will drive awareness and use of data mining in institutional advancement and fundraising," says Rae Goldsmith, CASE's vice president of advancement resources. "We are pleased that Lori's work will contribute to new knowledge in the field."