VIGRE: Vertical and Horizontal Integration of Research and Education in Statistics and Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon

9819900埃迪在卡内基梅隆大学，统计系和数学科学系将建立在他们的互补优势，开发一个联合的，垂直整合的教育和研究计划。 响应国家的需求，该计划将（一）培养博士后研究员的职业生涯强调在需要多功能性的环境中进行研究，（二）旨在招募和留住美国研究生，避免过多的时间来完成博士学位，同时为学生提供毕业后成功的高概率，以及（三）帮助增加美国本科生的数量，包括女性和少数民族，攻读数学和统计科学的高级学位。 该计划强调跨学科的研究和理解学习者在学科发展的背景下的需求。 许多活动从两个以前资助的集团基础设施赠款增长到我们各自的部门，并从一个非常成功的应用数学本科暑期研究所。 例如，我们计划使用从基础设施补助金到数学科学的研究生支持模式，我们将扩大暑期研究所的运作，包括统计学的学生，我们将适应数学科学的一些博士后指导程序，这些程序在统计学中很好地工作。 我们对这个培训计划的评估将评估以下几点：本科生参与有意义的研究经验;它在为VIGRE研究生培训生生产可接受的平均学位时间方面的成功;它在扩大本科生和研究生水平的学生的数学视野和职业机会方面的有效性，特别注重研究生课程;它的有效性在博士后一级准备VIGRE博士后研究员的职业生涯作为专业的数学科学家;它的有效性在发展VIGRE参与者的沟通技巧;指导本科生、研究生和博士后研究员的有效性;研究团队的整体有效性和其他整合研究与教育的努力;统计和数学科学部门之间的培训伙伴关系的有效性;以及妇女和少数民族的参与程度。该奖项的资金由数学科学司和MPS董事会提供。多学科活动办公室。

9819900Eddy At Carnegie Mellon University, the Department of Statistics and the Department of Mathematical Sciences will build on their complementary strengths to develop a joint, vertically-integrated program of education and research. Responding to national needs, the program will (i) train postdoctoral fellows for careers emphasizing research in settings that require versatility, (ii) aim to recruit and retain U.S. graduate students, avoiding excessive time to complete Ph.D.s while providing students with a high probability of success after graduation, and (iii) help increase the numbers of U.S. undergraduates, including women and minorities, who pursue advanced degrees in mathematical and statistical sciences. The program emphasizes cross-disciplinary research and understanding the needs of learners in a context of disciplinary advancement. Many of the activities grow from two previously-funded Group Infrastructure Grants to our respective departments, and from a very successful Undergraduate Summer Research Institute in Applied Mathematics. For instance, we plan to use the graduate support model from the infrastructure grant to Mathematical Sciences, we will expand the operation of the Summer Institute to include students from Statistics, and we will adapt for Mathematical Sciences some of the postdoctoral mentoring procedures that have worked well in Statistics. Our evaluation of this training program will assess the following:involvement of undergraduates in meaningful research experiences; its success in producing acceptable average time-to-degree for VIGRE graduate trainees; its effectiveness in expanding the mathematical horizons and career opportunities of students at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels, with particular focus on the graduate program; its effectiveness at the postdoctoral level in preparing VIGRE postdoctoral fellows for careers as professional mathematical scientists; its effectiveness in developing the communications skills of VIGRE participants; the effectiveness of the mentoring of undergraduate students, graduate trainees, and postdoctoral fellows; overall effectiveness of the research teams and other efforts to integrate research and education; the effectiveness of the partnership-in-training between the Departments of Statistics and Mathematical Sciences; and the degree of involvement of women and minorities.Funding for this award is provided by the Division of Mathematical Sciences and the MPS Directorate's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities.