Bio: Karen Oberhauser
August 7, 2013 at 7:05PM
Age: 57.
Home: Roseville.
Family: Husband, Don Alstad; daughters, Amy Alstad, 26, and Leah Alstad, 24.
Occupation: Associate professor, University of Minnesota Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology.
Education: Undergraduate in biology from Harvard College, Ph.D. from U of M.
Hobbies: Reading, running, yoga, cooking, gardening and volunteering at her local co-op.
Oberhauser and daughter Amy have kept track of every game of backgammon they've played the past 10 years. They've even done a statistical analysis on the results."Based on a chi-square test, she is significantly better than me," Oberhauser said.
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