VIGRE-Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

爱荷华州立大学统计系的VIGRE项目旨在通过将本科生、研究生、博士后研究员和教师组成的工作组聚集在一起，使统计科学受益。该计划的结构将为学生提供在早期阶段将研究和跨学科问题解决纳入其教育经历的机会。它将为博士后提供经验和专业实践。此外，它的目的是增加教师的跨学科研究机会的水平，既跨越统计和数学的研究领域，也跨越数学和应用科学的界限。VIGRE计划的核心由专注于统计调查和应用领域的工作组组成。在生物信息学、环境与生态统计、工程统计、概率与数理统计、抽样方法和社会科学统计等领域存在工作组。每个工作组将进行研究并为其活动的外部资助撰写提案，参加VIGRE研讨会，与其他人合作规划本科生夏季研究经历，并在会议上和通过统计和主题导向的科学期刊的出版渠道展示研究成果。爱荷华州立大学的许多系都支持统计学系的VIGRE概念，来自广泛科学学科的研究人员参与工作组活动，预计将进一步增加爱荷华州立大学统计学应用和方法发展的历史实力。

The VIGRE program of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University is designed to benefit the statistical sciences by bringing together working groups consisting of undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. The structure of the program will provide students with the opportunity to incorporate esearch and interdisciplinary problem solving into their educational experience at an early stage in the process. It will provide postdoctoral fellows experience and professional practice. And, it is designed to increase the level of interdisciplinary research opportunities for faculty, both across areas of research in statistics and mathematics, and across boundaries of the mathematical and applied sciences. The core of the VIGRE program consists of work groups that focus on areas of statistical investigation and application. Work groups exist in the areas of Bioinformatics, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Engineering Statistics, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Sampling Methodology, and Statistics in the Social Sciences. Each work group will conduct research and write proposals for external funding of their activities, participate in the VIGRE workshop, work with others to plan undergraduate summer research experiences, and present research results at meetings and through publication outlets in both statistics and subject-oriented scientific journals. Many departments at Iowa State University have supported the VIGRE concept in the Department of Statistics, and involvement of researchers from a broad range of scientific disciplines in work group activities is expected to further increase the historical strength of applications and methodological development in statistics at Iowa State.